Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia, Current Events Part 52: June 2009 - May 2010


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the photos are nice, and i'm glad the royal house decided to do newer official pictures, but they look too photoshopped to me. besides, the poses are not at all the poses of royals but those of business people, as other poster said.
 
Her hair looks better in these pictures than it normally does. Looks shorter too. When were they taken?
 
Emmily said:
Her hair looks better in these pictures than it normally does. Looks shorter too. When were they taken?
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IMO the pictures may have been taken a long time ago, over a year or so. Last time she had that short hair was in the beginning of 2009.
 
Methinks part of their photo together looks photoshopped. You can tell by the way their bodies meet together, particularly near where Felipe's armpits are supposed to be (Letizia can't be that thin for his arm not to rise when holding her). The shadows on Letizia's clothes and the reflection on the glass seem to dispel it, but where is Felipe's other arm, which is supposed to be at the back of Letizia?

Casa Real always makes spectacular Fails when it comes to editing (enhancing?) photos.
 
An explanation, the Royal House has not done any experiment.

The photos have been realized by a professional photographer , the same one who did the photos of the King and the Queen. He is not an employee of the Royal House, is a photographer expert at doing portraits that it is contracted to do these photos.

Dany Virgili
 
:previous: Just because it was shot by a professional photographer doesn't mean it was not retouched. Even if there were stylists and assistants around, there will still be some editing and enhancing done before they put it on the web or printing it. And to the trained eye, any artificial enhancement will be easy to spot.
 
Captivating new official snaps of Spanish royals Princess Letizia and Prince Felipe - hellomagazine.com

"Ninguno manda más que el otro" :: Ocio y cultura :: Gente :: Periodista Digital
María José Arlandis, a specialist in the study of unconscious body language, says about the photos:
That Letizia is placed to the left of her husband reflects that there is very good union in their marriage, they are balanced, a man does not take a dominant position or the role of a protector. No one speaks louder than the other. It´s quite significant that they do not have the chin up. If it would be sending a message of distance and arrogance.
 
In general the press hasn't liked too much the photos, everyone is saying that they are too photoshopped
 
Retouched royal photos create outcry in Spain - Telegraph
Spanish royal photographer accused of manipulating images of Prince Felipe - Times Online
Spain's crown prince Felipe in 'edited' photos row | World news | The Guardian

The new pictures were long overdue. Acutally embarrassing that it took so long. However, the new pictures are clearly heavily photoshopped or digitally altered. Not that SRF were the first to do it but its clearly visible.

I preferred the old pics a million times since there were more natural. Letizia looks like a plastic version of her journalist days. They try to present themselves as business people since the Spanish situation these days does not allow them any pomp or jewellery, therefore no gala posing. The presentation as "Spanish CEO's" is more or less a strategy of survival, this is the way they want to be seen, not a royals who spend a lot of money and could be kicked out :p (but they in fact are).

First aim is to please the media therefore they are not tired to give an award to almost any journalist in the country or visit a media outlet, newspaper or TV station every other week.

The pictures only fit this stragety but make them look very lifeless and distant. As one article mentions: The pictures give the idea of a virtual monarchy which can’t be taken seriously. How true.
 
Finally, the photographer, bored with that was questioning his work has issued a communiqué.

http://www.adn.es/politica/20100505/NWS-0891-Principes-Nuevos-modernidad-tradicion-retratos.html

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In a communiqué, Virgili affirms in addition, " to tackle the polemic created concerning the erroneous information that some means have spread ", that in the portraits of Don Felipe with the uniforms of three Armies " the same head has not been in use for applying it to every image, but each one is an original capture and, therefore, differently to other ".
(...)

In addition the photographer, with humor, invites in his web to look for the differences.

http://www.dvirgili.com/prensa/es/galeria.php (Pasatiempos)
 
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Her_Majesty said:
Another article about the 3 Felipe-portraits:
http://www.hola.com/realeza/casa_espanola/2010050514195/dany-virgili/fotografo/principes-asturias/1/
http://translate.google.de/translat...i/fotografo/principes-asturias/1/&sl=es&tl=en
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The photographer is a professional who has done his work and must be angered enough by this polemic. Lamentably, knowing the Spanish press and the newspaper that created the rumor, I do not believe that they will correct the news or give excuses to him. If they were not official photos of the Prince of Asturias, surely the photographer might have denounced to the newspaper.
 
It's not always the media's fault, these pictures were bound to create polemic because they are so similar. I actually understand why, in order to avoid any difference between the military divisions, but it does look like copy / paste.

Whatever they do, they never get it right. It is beyond me why, if they claim to be close to the people, publish some heavily airbrushed pictures of the kind that usually appears on VOGUE title.

Ok, it's difficult to get a charismatic picture of Felipe because he doesnt have any charisma, he's just a tall guy in a suit with a bossy mother and a bossy wife. He was groomed to walk the line and not be edgy one bit, incredibly boring. What remains are five pictures with the same bland expression. Letizia's face has become plastic anyway, so her picture is more authentic.

What is really disturbing is the cold and distant look especially in the couple picture, as if they were applying for the spanish version of THE APPRENTICE or as Mr Incredible and Elastigirl.

Their image is based on trying to look busy and making an impact for Spain in these difficult times, like politicians. I wonder if Spaniards will buy this strategy in the long run since royals are still royals, with little impact but a billionaire bank account.
 
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