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QuackingTroll
Valinor
Oct 29 2014, 7:55pm
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The "creepy Bilbo" DoS poster
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I'm sure everyone remembers this rather creepy Bilbo image: http://ww4.sinaimg.cn/...q8vn7j21fs23h1kp.jpg
It's a cool poster, but something is up with Bilbo's face, it looks waxy and his eyes look dead.
The poster is made by a great commercial photographer called Nels Israelson, and I was just checking out his website and came across this poster in his portfolio. I noticed that Bilbo didn't have the creepy face?!
Here: http://www.nelslens.com/...olio/Advertising/11/
So I was just wondering if anyone has any ideas or theories as to what happened to this image? It's a really nice poster without the weird face. 
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leonmuse
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Oct 29 2014, 8:06pm
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Thank you very much!!!
The original image is just great! How come did they allow this monster of a 'shoped Bilbo to see the light of day? 
Original image:
http://www.nelslens.com/...folio/advertising/10
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell."
(This post was edited by leonmuse on Oct 29 2014, 8:06pm)
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QuackingTroll
Valinor
Oct 29 2014, 8:29pm
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Just noticed links don't really work, but it's the 10/11th image //
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BlackFox
Half-elven
Oct 29 2014, 8:46pm
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He is clearly suffering from a bad case of Photoshopilitis.  
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Avandel
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Oct 29 2014, 9:51pm
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Glad you found the original - what a mess. Only thing I can think of, as Black Fox suggests, is that the original was a lovely high res, and for whatever reason someone tinkered with it and/or changed the resolution for mass printing and distribution (lower res = cheaper) and they made Bilbo look deranged - what a shame 
Sure Mr. Israelson just shakes his head sometimes.....
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leonmuse
Rivendell
Oct 30 2014, 12:08am
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And the most astonishing thing is...
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... the artist didn't alter one bit from his facial expression, nor his hair!
It's the same image with the same face BUT with a horrible artificial lighting technique applied to it!
He darkened his eyes and brightened his cheeck, darkened the other side and heightened the Contrast to a level not nice!
And the worst part of all that, is that now I dread even the original/unaltered image.
I wonder if there's someone here skilled enough/willing to improve the altered image, just for fun.
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell."
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Crunchable Birdses
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Oct 30 2014, 12:46am
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and you should submit it to "photoshop disasters":
http://www.psdisasters.com/
* crunch *
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Bishop
Gondor
Oct 30 2014, 1:18am
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To me it looks like a one click photoshop effect, such as trace or something. Bad call on their part! Is the creepy version an official release?
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leonmuse
Rivendell
Oct 30 2014, 2:10am
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Martin Freeman (if he saw it), must have been shocked to see what they did wish him! Lol
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"If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell."
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Bishop
Gondor
Oct 30 2014, 5:22am
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That's just bizarro. As far as I know it's the only poster that has that effect on it. WB may need to sharpen up the QC in their marketing department.
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Lurker in the Mirk
Valinor
Oct 30 2014, 6:06am
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Thanks for sharing his work.
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Earl
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Oct 30 2014, 12:00pm
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Nels also did the 3D posters for AUJ
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He's really good. I must see if I can't save this poster... Thanks for sharing :)
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Avandel
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Oct 30 2014, 2:52pm
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*Wish I could own the 3-D posters*
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Truly love Nel's work - POTC, Ironman, and for me the AUJ series was magnificent and perfection for Middle Earth. IMO his Gandalf and Thorin images are the best images of a movie character I have ever seen done and love his images of the Company and the way he captured the essence of the characters - incredible talent. Wish I had the space to put all of them up.
It's not photography, it's ART.
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Loresilme
Valinor
Oct 30 2014, 2:53pm
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Strange, but somehow in the re-touched one
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he reminds me of Elijah Wood. I don't know how but, something about the retouching of the eyes and face now reminds me of Frodo.
What a botched re-touching. One of his eyes looks like a plain black orb.
Thanks for sharing the unaltered one, I agree, the original is quite nice! As well as the rest of the photographer's work. Thanks :).
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Poor Bilbo!
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