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Seriously, if they’re too lazy to do proper promo photos, they should just collect a bunch of stock images, release them to the public, and turn it into a fanart competition. They’d end up with the most effective and appropriate promo pics.
heres that emma pic phee hope its like how you imagined
That is fabulous, well done! 🙂
I was just reading an article on a web from the photography website PetaPixel. The article quotes a photographer who posted the following on Reddit:
They were probably taken in a huge hurry by the IATSE set photographer (I’ve been that guy). Their official job is to shoot set stills but often the publicity department will try to wrangle him into shooting gallery stills for them.
It’s great when you have time to set it up and prepare properly (the photographer gets a pay bump for doing portraits) but way too often it’s done on the side of the set on an impromptu green screen with no lighting allowed (it’s a working set, additional lighting would interfere and flashes are strictly forbidden). It’s almost always done at the end of the day when the actor is tired and grumpy.
That was one theory. It’s interesting hearing the insight of people who work in the industry and what actually happens behind the scenes.
I have a feeling we won’t get new photos. They’ll wait until mid-season hiatus to redo them.
It just baffles me that they’d skimp so much on official photos to promote the new season of one of their most popular shows. Like, it makes no sense to not do this stuff properly! Set aside one full day for a proper photo session. Where are the other photos from the group photo session? Surely they didn’t take just that one? Same goes for the pics in their solo shoots. Surely there’s at least one shot of each character that would be acceptable? Or did they just line them all up, BAM, BAM, BAM, everyone file past and get one photo taken and those are the ones we’ve already seen? I find it hard to believe that they could have been THAT slack.
[adrotate group="5"]Phee’s bafflement is also my bafflement. ABC has got some golden children: ONCE, Grey’s, Scandal, Castle, Modern Family, and to a lesser extent Revenge. I’ve seen Scandal’s and Revenge’s and they are gorgeous. Especially Scandal’s. I can see why some people on Twitter are asking if ABC doesn’t care about us anymore. I don’ think that’ the case at all but I do feel jipped.
"He was a lot of things to me" "The only conclusion was love"Saw a couple of tumblr posts about the photos for Castle sucking as well, but haven’t tried to look them up. Also a common comment on tumblr is that Once has one of the most attractive casts on TV right now, so it takes some seriously special skill to have made them look that bad.
I get that they’re all working hard to get the first batch of eps shot and completed, but really, would one day off for a proper photo shoot have screwed up the shooting schedule that bad? Make it on a Sunday, I’m guessing they probably don’t usually shoot on Sundays anyway? They’ve already got the indoor jungle set up for shooting the show, I’m guessing that’s what they used for the group pic set, so why not just take all the pics there with the jungle backdrop while they were at it?
In some of the solo shots, you can see the actual edge of whatever mat thing they’re standing on, which I’m guessing is supposed to look like dirt, next to a puddle of water that they’re being reflected in. It’s actually just a black mat of some type, lying over the top of a mirror. You can see the edge of the mat really clearly in some shots. The whole setup was so cheap. You can also tell that it’s a totally fake backdrop that just met the floor. Maybe that’s why they tried to blur it so much, to make it look less obviously a fake backdrop? But seriously, if they original backdrop looked fake, why not just get a stock image of some jungle and Photoshop that in instead? Rocks and logs around the bottom of the trees and hey presto, it’d all blend into the fake dirt mat they’re standing on quite effectively.
Phee’s bafflement is also my bafflement. ABC has got some golden children: ONCE, Grey’s, Scandal, Castle, Modern Family, and to a lesser extent Revenge. I’ve seen Scandal’s and Revenge’s and they are gorgeous. Especially Scandal’s. I can see why some people on Twitter are asking if ABC doesn’t care about us anymore. I don’ think that’ the case at all but I do feel jipped.
My bafflement too. It’s just so sad, how could they not realise that they are totally letting the fans down on this? Scandals are just beautiful. I can’t wait for it to come back. Haven’t seen Revenges ones yet.
Saw a couple of tumblr posts about the photos for Castle sucking as well, but haven’t tried to look them up. Also a common comment on tumblr is that Once has one of the most attractive casts on TV right now, so it takes some seriously special skill to have made them look that bad.
My poor beautiful Colin!
I get that they’re all working hard to get the first batch of eps shot and completed, but really, would one day off for a proper photo shoot have screwed up the shooting schedule that bad? Make it on a Sunday, I’m guessing they probably don’t usually shoot on Sundays anyway? They’ve already got the indoor jungle set up for shooting the show, I’m guessing that’s what they used for the group pic set, so why not just take all the pics there with the jungle backdrop while they were at it?
It would have been the easiest route, it’s just crazy that they didn’t utilise the set. Crazy.
In some of the solo shots, you can see the actual edge of whatever mat thing they’re standing on, which I’m guessing is supposed to look like dirt, next to a puddle of water that they’re being reflected in. It’s actually just a black mat of some type, lying over the top of a mirror. You can see the edge of the mat really clearly in some shots. The whole setup was so cheap. You can also tell that it’s a totally fake backdrop that just met the floor. Maybe that’s why they tried to blur it so much, to make it look less obviously a fake backdrop? But seriously, if they original backdrop looked fake, why not just get a stock image of some jungle and Photoshop that in instead? Rocks and logs around the bottom of the trees and hey presto, it’d all blend into the fake dirt mat they’re standing on quite effectively.
Goodness, that is so unprofessional. I’m not going to look at them again to find the matt though, i’ll trust you that they’re there Phee.
*sigh* any word on new shots since I’ve been asleep?
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My poor beautiful Colin!
Seriously, how did they manage to screw him up so bad?! On the plus side, we ended up with the hilarious edit of him with the keytar, (which The Enemies have actually now put up on their FB page). 😆
Speaking of edits, here’s where someone has collected a bunch of them: http://captain-parrillian.tumblr.com/tagged/wehelpedABC
Seriously, how did they manage to screw him up so bad?! On the plus side, we ended up with the hilarious edit of him with the keytar, (which The Enemies have actually now put up on their FB page).
Lol! I’d say they’re having a great time taking the mickey out of him hahaha!!!! (Irish sense of humour)
Just found this comment on an article:
“Hey guys, it’s really great that you publish articles full of speculation about what happened on this photoset, but it might be worth re-iterating that there was no first hand knowledge here. As someone who was actively working on that set, I can tell you the following:
-Not shot by unit stills photographer, not shot on a production day. This was a 4 day combined gallery shoot for both Wonderland and Once Upon A Time
-This was only one series of portraits shot for the show. The other sets/seamless shots felt much more organic, will be interesting to see what comes from those-In the case of this shoot, real criticism lies with the art/marketing department as the photographer is more like a general contractor, just making what they want to see
-It was shot with a combination of HMI lighting the background, and strobe lighting the subject. The blur you see was actually an effect from pulling the zoom during exposure, an intentional move requested by art department (though doesn’t look like they chose that for all the images)Personally, I’m not terribly fond of the photos either. That being said, Disney/ABC is quite often rather bland with their marketing and so this at least seems consistent with what they’re creating.”
Article here: http://petapixel.com/2013/09/13/abc-pull-horrible-upon-time-promo-photos/
4 days to shoot and this is what they came up with?????
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I havent seen the revenge ones yet ill look them up but ive seen castles and some are ok an some arent again they are just photoshopped really bad but again not as bad as once and once is meant to b one of the big ones. .. man abc have tanked promoting this yr makes me so sad
#BOOM #Swanfire #Always #Pancakes #Haven #FateSpeaking of edits, here’s where someone has collected a bunch of them: http://captain-parrillian.tumblr.com/tagged/wehelpedABC
Brilliant! My favourites were:
1. CD Regina
2. Many armed Regina
3. Winter is coming (hahahaha)
4. “Just no”
5. Torn dress/sword bearing/jungle Emma
And the best IMO:
6. Get out! You’re not allowed to be called Emma Swan!
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If it was an actual, organised, dedicated shoot, there’s no excuse for the cheap look of it. If the blur effect was due to the zoom, then I guess the blurred photos are a write off and can’t be fixed. I’m guessing they’d have some clear shots of each of them too though, because some of the released pics are much sharper than others. There were surely 100s of photos from that shoot. Are the pics we got honestly the best out of the bunch?
-This was only one series of portraits shot for the show. The other sets/seamless shots felt much more organic, will be interesting to see what comes from those
With any luck that means they have alternate pics they can release instead now? Pretty please?
This isn’t mine, but it’s what I was getting it with my original comments about the Regina pic, where they could have had her with tree branches around…
With any luck that means they have alternate pics they can release instead now? Pretty please? This isn’t mine, but it’s what I was getting it with my original comments about the Regina pic, where they could have had her with tree branches around… http://scifitvaddict.tumblr.com/post/61165045139
I hope so, we’ll surely get some new ones next week.
I’m sure that there were people who doubted those photos, and the fact that ABC pulled them so quickly meant that they had realised their mistake. If they had faith in their pics they would have left them up.
Yep that Regina pic is a definite improvement! I hope ABC publicity are paying attention to all these fan edits.
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