specialmama Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 There has been controversy over Ikea's catalogue pics before... so perhaps I'm just being suspicious, but what you think of this picture? Do you think they altered the little girl's chest? :001_huh: I don't remember my dd having deep shadows/crevices like that around that age... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moxie Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 It looks fine to me. What other issues have there been? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophia Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 I haven't heard of any ad controversies with Ikea (which doesn't mean anything since I'm not up on the news) but my first thought was that Ikea could have provided a better fitting shirt for their child model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specialmama Posted October 23, 2010 Author Share Posted October 23, 2010 I remember 2 of them: once there was a picture of a man and a woman being intimate, a magazine picture on a table, and another time a dog was graphically enhanced with a large male (human) appendage. I really don't want to google, LOL, but I do recall people almost expecting the graphic designers to se%ually alter at least one pic in the catalogues, it was an almost "Where's Waldo" thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeneralMom Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Looks fine to me. If my DD3 was picking up a box while bent like that her pectoral muscles would contract and make a similar crevice like that. I did Google it and couldn't find any reference to alterations in Ikea catalog. Hmmm, maybe I have just missed them all along. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeleigh2000 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 My theory...the scene is lit from both above and below. The ruffle of her shirt makes the edge shadow and the corner of the box makes the middle of the chest shadow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carrie12345 Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 I think the lighting combined with the fit of the shirt is the biggest factor there. Just like bright, even lighting can wash out depth, high contrast is going to exaggerate it. If you consider how much shadow her little shirt is casting, I think the shadow of her perfectly normal anatomy is pretty much in proportion. Any enhancement that may have been done could have conceivably been needed to "correct" for how low the shirt was dipping on the shoot. On my (older) girls, a thing or two (iykwim) might have been visible in that position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsbaby Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 My oldest dd's chest looked like that. She had a pectus excavatum (sunken chest). Looks like this little girl could have a minor one....that or just the lighting:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WishboneDawn Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 Lighting. I don't see anything out of the ordinary. Frankly I think the other "controversies" have more to do with what people look for then what's actually in the Ikea photos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabrett Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 It looks like they have tried to photo shop a fake shadow over her chest because the picture exposed too much. I don't think they were trying to make her look like she is "developed", just hide an ill fitting shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidsHappen Posted October 23, 2010 Share Posted October 23, 2010 To me it looks like lighting casting entirely natural shadows due to the angle of the lights. It does not look like there has been any Photoshopping done nor have I been able to find anything on other problems with Ikea's catalogs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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