AfternoonTea & English

📸Если у вас есть аккаунт в Инстаграм, вы, скоре всего, слышали, как тревел-блогеры редактируют фото, приклеивая объекты и пейзажи, которых в реальной жизни нет 🏞 Но подобные случаи бывают не только в Инстаграме...👇 #tuesday_news

'There's a lot of fakery': insiders spill on the dirty tricks behind wildlife photos.

📸The Brazilian photographer Marcio Cabral was stripped of a prestigious award after judges noticed that the anteater in his picture looked like the taxidermy anteater in a national park. This would not be the first time such a photograph was judged to be a fake.

🐯One of the most common ways to fake a wildlife photo is visiting a farm. There, photographers can take closeup shots of animals without having to wait days to track them down in nature. This is so common that it has reshaped public expectation of how certain creatures look. 🦁“I could show you two pictures: a skinny wild cougar hiding in a cliff, or a farm cougar,” says a Canadian wildlife photographer. “99% of people would rather see a photo of a big healthy cougar.”

🐸The consequences of fakery can be even more grim for insects, small reptiles and amphibians. People do quite terrible things to small creatures, like gluing or freezing them to slow their movement. Other tweaks are done with photo-editing software: backgrounds altered and animals photographed separately Photoshopped into a single image. The British wildlife photographer David Slater says that this is because of the difficulty photographers face in making a living. “If you try for the genuine shot, you are less likely to be published. That’s why most photographers will push their own ethical boundaries.”

NEW WORDS:

🐙fakery: подделка

🐙spill: (здесь) рассказать секреты

🐙trick: трюк

🐙to be stripped of something: быть лишенным чего-то

🐙anteater: муравьед

taxidermy: таксидермия, чучело животного

🐙closeup shot: фото крупным планом

🐙to track someone down: отследить кого-то

🐙cougar: пума

🐙grim: мрачный

🐙amphibians: земноводные

🐙to alter: изменить

🐙to make a living: зарабатывать на жизнь