Monster Ru

a bit of rambling...

i wanted to post some photos when it snowed about 2 wks ago, and about the funny buskers on the train home on saturday evening. And also about our usually OK upstairs neighbours, who had a party on saturday night, and put on loud music only after midnight, with their guests singing (shouting actually) and stamping their feet to the rhythm the whole time, until i woke NAB up at 1.30am to go and ask them to please stop it. (KNNBCCB, i could have killed them because even the dogs could not sleep...)

So, i got lazy, but this post is really about how many "the photos do not do justice to this beautiful/gorgeous/fabulous-looking (insert whatever item of clothing up for bidding)" statements that i've recently seen on ebay (yes, for those of you who have not heard, i've been getting some maternity wear off ebay!). Anyway, the said photos were usually blur or "faded" and it got me thinking about what could have made this possible:

a. the auto-focus function on the camera was faulty
b. the photo-taker must not have steady hands (like me previously when i was drinking too much)
c. the photo-taker must have been tickled and jumped, or was drunk (also like me sometimes, when i get drunk and try to take a shot)
d. it was a very heavy camera and could not be held steady (like that time when i first tried a digital SLR, Terz's 10D when he first got it actually, with some big fuck-off lens with image stabiliser or something)
e. there is no auto WB (White Balance) setting on the camera/wrong WB was set
f. there was a fan in the room where the item of clothing was shot, and it was turned on at high speed and aimed at this piece of clothing.

It is really easy to screw up a shot. but i guess i just kind of assumed that if you are truly keen about selling your "really gorgeous" item, you'll try your best to show it as such in the photo. And i mean, in this day and age, even a phonecam can do a pretty good job of getting a decent shot of something that is not moving. And it's not like if you fuck up the first shot, you can't try again, not like some things in life...

But really, why do they feel the need to say this? Do they expect us to be forgiving and ignore the less-than-perfect photo and try to picture a perfect garment? I mean, if the photo does not give us a better idea of what the item looks like, then why bother posting such a photo anyway??

posted by 儒 @ 20:06