Nikon under fire for awarding prize to photoshopped image
It's a bird, it's a plane... oh wait, it's photoshop. PHOTO: FILE
The Singapore branch of Nikon recently held a competition on their Facebook page and, misjudging a picture, awarded Yu Wei a Nikon bag for capturing a plane perfectly framed between the side rails of a rooftop ladder.
While the monochrome picture seemingly looks okay, by adjusting a few levels on Photoshop, one can clearly decipher the box around the plane and figure out that the picture is, in fact, a fake, reported RT.
Photographers were outraged as well as amused at how the multinational company could miss such a big flaw in the photo and took to social media to shame Nikon.
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Many took it as a joke and uploaded their 'badly' photoshopped images in hopes of winning the prize
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The awarded photographer, guilty as charged, has since apologised.
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The photographer explains that he got 'lucky' with this prize-worthy shot, and decided that the addition of a plane in the middle would make it look better.
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According to BBC, After Yu Wei's social media confession, Nikon has finally taken the photo down and apologised for their mistake. They have promised a stricter photo review process in the future.