12/1/11

David Bowie spotted walking in New York with family - was it photoshopped?

Take a good look at these photos


The first two photos show David Bowie crossing a street in New York. Next to him on his left side we can see a car that has just passed by. The pics are pretty clear, the colours are natural, a very good paparazzi shot.




The next couple of photos show Iman and daughter Alexandria (or Lexi) walking in the streets of New York. The light is different when compared with the first couple of photos, they are not as clear and the colours are different. Iman and Alexandria are walking close together, the mother embrasing her daughter protectively, the daughter holding her mother's hands.




This is the last from the bunch of  photos that appeared on various sites. This photo struck me for being so different from the previous ones. Unlike the other two photos of David Bowie, this is nowhere as clear as the other two, the lighting has gone wrong, his outline is purple and the photo is blurred and slightly grainy. Same with Iman and Alexandria. 


I wonder why the paparazzi took five photos but only ONE of the entire family together. Was it so difficult to take a second shot of the three of them? Why does the quality of the last photo look so different? Where is Iman and Alexandria in the first two photos? Did they cross the street  before the car passed leaving David behind? Is that why David is alone in both photos? Where is David in the two photos of his girls? Nowhere near? Had David been next to Lexi, the angle the photos of Iman and the girl were taken (especially the second one) would be perfect to include David in the shot. So why even the edge of his sleeve doesn't make it in the shot? Didn't the paparazzi want to take another photograph of the three? 


My impression is the photo with the three of them is photoshopped. The light, the colours and the quality of the pic in general (when compared with the quality of the photos of Bowie alone) are so different, that I have come to believe they have been changed to match the lesser quality of the shots of Iman and her daughter. It's been years since we last saw the entire family in one pic, it appears somebody decided it was time that changed.