I just came across this photo on Yahoo. "La Redoute, a popular French clothing company, released a promotional ad for their children's line. The photo, posted on the mail-order chain's website, showed four kids in colorful beachwear...and a man in his birthday suit off in the distance."

Just goes to show the importance of checking out the entire composition before clicking that shutter

Update: I have been requested to delete the photo since it is not one that I took. Instead, here is a link to the article:

<http://shine.yahoo.com/fashion/nsfw-kids-clothing-ad-french-fashion-companys-major-174800986.html>

Graham
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I think it's intensional. Even if the photographer didn't intend it, surely an editor would see it, and if undesired erased it. (You know how those French are )

...Mike

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And then there is the issue of the PhotoShopped image from many purist who do not want any post processing.

George
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>And then there is the issue of the PhotoShopped image from
>many purist who do not want any post processing.
>
In an advertising image?
...Mike

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Certainly true. What many photographers seem to forget is that the background is usually more of the area of an image than the subject. Controlling what's in the background is just as important as controlling the subject.

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I don't think that anyone missed that in the photo. It gets an awful lot of people taking notice of their ad which is what they're trying to do.

Nonetheless, it is true that a lot of good photos have been ruined because the photographer hasn't paid enough attention to what's in the background.

But sometimes when you're taking candid shots where you don't have a lot of time to examine the background, you get some pleasant surprises that add to the photo.

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Yeah I remember that a couple days ago on Yahoo. I'm of the mindset that an editor had to catch that, but lots of things slip through, just check out Jay Leno's "Headlines" on Monday night. (That's the only time I watch the late night commediaans, ten minutes on Monday for those headlines is absolutely hillarious). It's important to check the background but then again with photoshop things can be removed.

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I agree that Leno's Headlines can be pretty funny. It's amazing the lack of proofreading that goes on these days.

Graham
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