The camera never lies?Here’s what the data says about Kate’s edited photos

This led to more controversy and conspiracy theory About the Princess – with Kate forced to admit she edited the photo.

Sky News analysis of photo metadata Data and Forensics The unit discovered that the image had been saved twice in the photo-editing software Adobe Photoshop on an Apple Mac, but it was unclear whether it was saved on the same device.

The first save was made at 9.54pm on Friday and the second at 9.39am on Saturday morning.

This photo was taken at Adelaide Lodge (Adelaide Lodge) in Windsor with a Canon 5D Mark IV, which retails for £2,929.99. Uses Canon 50mm lens, £1,629.99.

Kensington Palace said the photo was taken by Prince William.

However, Kate is known to be a keen photographer. royal family member. In June 2019 she was appointed Patron of the Royal Photographic Society.

Chris Gorman, a news photographer with 30 years of editorial experience, told Sky News it was likely Princess Set up the camera for William to take a picture – but then start editing the image.

Nearly all professional photographers now use so-called mirrorless cameras, he said.

The Canon 5D Mark IV is a DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflex) camera, which is still a good camera, but the technology is slightly older.

“It’s the same thing as my camera,” he said. “I thought Kate would show up on the latest camera, but she didn’t. I felt very visible among my peers and now that I know Kate and Will are filming with it I won’t be as worried.

“That camera was old, but it was a very high-end, top-of-the-line camera. It took top-notch photos. I’m glad they didn’t shoot it with a cell phone.”

He said that although Kate knew about cameras, her Photoshop skills were clearly not as good as those of a professional.

“I’m really surprised there isn’t a professional Photoshop expert in the palace,” he said.

“What she was trying to do was clone areas – maybe she liked Charlotte’s sleeves better in another frame and tried to make it look better. I suspect there might have been slight differences – she sat there looking at it and giving It’s pretty long. So I bet if you saw the original image, you’d go. “Why did she do that?” “

“It’s a can of worms – once you start messing around like this – as a photographer you think afterwards, ‘I should have left this’.

“When the public refers to Photoshop, it’s a misconception – people call it fake.

“I don’t believe she was trying to fake the photo, she was just trying to spruce it up. Unfortunately for them, they are the most scrutinized family in the world – anything slightly wrong with the photo will be ignored .” was noticed. “

Ryan Jarvis, a professional photographer for 15 years, agrees.

“I don’t understand why some of the editing was done. If you look at the window frame in the background, it does look misaligned.

“Are there people reflected in the photo? Is there a group of people in the background, maybe staff, that are distracting? What is so bad about this that needs to change so much?

“I don’t think she did anything wrong, she was just trying to edit the photo – like any professional or serious amateur would do.”

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Some additional information from the metadata extracted via Photoshop by Sky News Data and Forensics shows shutter speed (1/125 second), aperture (f/3.2) (the amount of light allowed in) and ISO (640), which is the A camera setting that brightens or darkens a photo refers to the sensitivity of the camera sensor to light.

Commenting on the exposure data, Mr Jarvis said: “I photographed hundreds of families with young children. You wouldn’t want to go any slower than that with a child – especially one who is visibly laughing.”

“If it were me, I’d double the speed to 1/250, purely to make sure the image was sharp – and to capture that moment. The kids wouldn’t stand still or sit still.

“If Princess Charlotte had moved her left hand slightly when Prince William took the photo, it would have left a slight motion blur, so Kate may have edited it for that.”

He continued: “When you choose an aperture, you’re basically choosing the size of the image you want to focus on. So this seems like a perfectly reasonable setting. The higher the number, the sharper the background.

“Louis looks the sharpest – so when Prince William takes photos, the focus may be on him rather than Kate, George and Charlotte. But that’s not unusual – Prince William is not a professional photographer.”

He added: “ISO affects a camera’s sensitivity to light. You can tell it’s not the sunniest day – there are no obvious shadows on their faces. It could be overcast, so the ISO is within my expectations So be it.”

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Mr Gorman also described the shutter speed as “relatively slow”.

“It was taken in pretty dark conditions. I don’t think there was any flash on it,” he said.

“It was well exposed and well composed. Something almost certainly happened – a few shots were taken of the kids hanging out, you know what kids are like, making faces and all that – and she probably Already gone, ‘I don’t have a perfect picture’.

“The original footage may have had image blur – she decided to take part of the frame from another shoot and change it.

“She was sitting there looking at it for too long and worrying about something. She had a picture and she wanted it to be absolutely perfect – studio perfect. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

Mr Gorman added: “She should have known she should be shooting from raw files, which would give the photographer the best quality from the camera. That’s probably how she started the editing process.

“If you shoot raw – if there’s a discrepancy in the picture – if there’s any image blur, it’s easier to fix it.

“This could be a jpeg she’s working on.”

Kensington Palace said it would not release the original, unedited photos.

“If I released anything to the newspaper, if I made any changes, I would have to announce it, so I was surprised,” Mr Gorman said.

He added: “I suspect – they want this whole thing to go away as quickly as possible and if they release the original image it will get the story more play – and the other is, if it’s significantly different – then They have a problem.”