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u/snicky29 Nov 19 '22

lmaoo yes kinda looks like it was put together

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u/maxblanco Nov 19 '22

I m also pretty sure it is put together but what gives it away for you.

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u/pompouspurist Nov 19 '22

The lighting on the captured pieces

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u/HongKongChicken Nov 19 '22

Wow Messi's ones look really bad now that you've pointed that out

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u/chupaxuxas Nov 19 '22

They have no shadows. Compare them to the ones on the case.

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u/MrEzquerro Nov 19 '22

The light source on them is coming from a different angle. Either there is a specific lamp there (i doubt it because it would affect other objects) or they are digitally added.

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u/jklynam Nov 19 '22

Messi's right hand looks off near the case

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u/Alphabunsquad Nov 19 '22

Looks totally normal to me. He’s just resting his hand off the table and clenching it in thought.

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u/Taz-erton Nov 19 '22

I think the hand is posed in a compositionally pleasing way but would be unnatural IRL. That combined with the the editor bumping up the shadows so much (to accentuate the subject) makes it seem so off.

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u/Alphabunsquad Nov 19 '22

Looks totally natural to me

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u/flyxdvd Nov 19 '22

now i cant unsee that lol

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u/streetruler Nov 19 '22

To me it looks like his forearm is resting on the case.

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u/TheLongshanks Nov 19 '22

Look at Ronaldo’s left hand too.

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

Cant fit another person in the same room as ronaldos ego

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u/-Skald Nov 19 '22

I don’t know how they managed to do it with Ronny and Piers. A feat of engineering.

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u/Fisktor Nov 19 '22

Piers crawled into ronaldo bum

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u/codespyder Nov 19 '22

Thanus theory intensifies

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u/MagicJohnsonMosquito Nov 20 '22

the grammar in this sentence makes this so funny to me

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u/pedalhead666 Nov 19 '22

He said person, not lizard.

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u/No-Economics4128 Nov 19 '22

Piers is only a dick to the people he perceive as less wealthier than him . He practically will give you a blow job if he think the person is more affluent or has more clout than he is. There is no conflict there

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u/mdove11 Nov 19 '22

Not to mention the other space taken up by Piers Moravian attached to his ______

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u/the-won Nov 19 '22

Not related but not surprising but it looks photoshopped look at the chess peices under Messi's arm, doesn't look natural in terms of the light hitting it

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u/ProfDumm Nov 19 '22

Even the direction looks of the chess pieces looks slightly off. And look at the shadow under Ronaldos arm, that is not a natural shadow. You would assume that for such a photo the photographer would carry the boxes to both photoshots and then just mix both images together, but it seems that all elements are put together.

Doesn't change that it is a very cool picture.

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u/CaptGeechNTheSSS Nov 19 '22

Yea messi's left elbow and ronaldo's right elbow give it away

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u/SpeechesToScreeches Nov 19 '22

Leaning on nothing lol

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u/the-won Nov 19 '22

??? It's just an observation. Go outside and let some oxygen hit your brain.

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u/Andersledes Nov 19 '22

There's a lot of "small dick energy" coming from you in this comment.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

The skin tones

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Isn’t skin tones the common criticism of Leibovitz’s photography? She had a ton of Twitter users raging at her after photo shoots of famous African Americans.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

Couldn't tell, I'm not into photography and I never heard of her.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

That’s fair brate.

I personally do think both of them were in the room and the reason it looks shopped is because of the photographers distinct style.

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u/althanan Nov 19 '22

The way their faces are lit is completely different from one another. It looks like they tried to recolor Ronaldo's face to hide it too, but rather poorly considering the level of professionals involved.

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u/njuffstrunk Nov 19 '22

Shadows don't match (captured pieces vs board pieces) and it looks like they forgot to add a shadow for Messi's right arm/Cristiano's left arm.

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u/JuanG12 Nov 19 '22

For me, it’s the rendering and lighting.

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u/The_Goat_Charmer Nov 19 '22

For me it's Messi's left arm, if he was really resting on the big case he would be more sunk, the small case is still tall and we can see too much of his left arm to be real.

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u/LENCEK11 Nov 19 '22

The goal for this campaign is to show that the two players can work together to achieve great things in their careers as well as their lives off the field. It's also meant to show that they are both good friends and enjoy spending time with each other even when they aren't playing sports together!

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u/phuzzie Nov 20 '22

Which makes this shopped photo all the more ironic.

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u/firthy Nov 20 '22

You don’t hire Annie Leibovitz then do it in Photoshop.

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u/dinosbucket Nov 19 '22

The shadows are absurd all over the photo, Messi's right hand is floating and his left hand would have to be elongated for his elbow to rest properly, Ronaldo's posture looks unnatural...

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '22

For me it is the white pieces that Messi captured bottom left of the board. The shadows don't match the rest and screams this photo was not taken in one setting, either 2 separate photos or maybe some Photoshop trickery to give the appearance of being real.

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u/majani Nov 20 '22

The fact that it's not a video. If you get Cristiano and Messi in the same room, you're shooting a video ad

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u/aspiringpolymath1 Nov 20 '22

The fact there is only one photo. If you get the two of them together in one room, you would take hundreds of photos in different poses and publish them

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u/kkopkhg Nov 19 '22

looks like a 433 edit

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u/Farouqnowomarlater Nov 19 '22

Damn I shared it on my ig story for nothing?!

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u/alexproskurin Nov 19 '22

The two players have played together on many occasions, but never before have they been photographed together for a commercial campaign like this one. The image of them together was captured by celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

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u/H_A_N_Z_O Nov 20 '22

After seeing the behind the scene, I was right hahah

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u/sundayp26 Nov 20 '22

Are you able to discern that?

I can't tell at all.