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- The Essex House Hotel photo we found on Expedia is unmarred by traffic and street lights.
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- The Oyster hotel Reviews Photo reveals what the hotel Photoshopped away.
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- The powerlines above the pool are absent in the Essex House Hotel photo from Expedia.
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- Oyster Hotel Reviews shows you the ugly power lines and the building view that the marketing photos don’t.
Last week, we showed you what clever cropping can do. This week, we show you how hotels Photoshop out unsightly objects.
We think The Essex House Hotel in South Beach, Miami is a great value — but we’re not big fans of their Photoshopped marketing photos. Both the hotel exterior photo and the pool photo were visibily altered.
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They also overcorrected the perspective (tilt to left edge of buidling is opposite it should be) and saturated the pink (or shifted the hue). Ah well – those burgers don’t look like they do on the sign either
Guys,
Any chance you are off the mark this time, regarding the first picture and the elements that were supposedly Photoshopped away? That picture looks remarkably similar to http://www.booking.com/images/hotel/org/957/957230.jpg and http://image.pegs.com/content/H/H8Y/H8YP/H8YP5/L99871_Ext1_j.jpg, which show no trace of the lamppost and of the traffic lights.
Just saying, maybe there was a time when the hotel was there and those objects were not.
By the way, comparing ads pictures with reality is a great idea!
I think the un-doctored photos look better than the marketing ones.
I like many posts on this site that show reality vs. marking, but this just seems weak. Does it really matter that they photoshopped lights and powerlines out?
The reason why there’s no building in the first picture is because there wasn’t anything there until this Spring when the renovation was completed. It’s not photoshopped out..it simply wasn’t there!
lol… comparing old pictures to new ones.
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