The snapper behind the well-known image shared by Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to announce her second being pregnant has hit again on the “crazy” suggestion that he doctored the picture.
The challenge of altering photos has been blasted into the open following the admission by Princess Kate that she edited the Mother’s Day picture of her and her three youngsters that she launched over the weekend.
It has shone a highlight on the apply and has led some to query whether or not different “official” snaps have additionally been doctored.
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But Misan Harriman has struck again on the allegation he did an analogous factor with that iconic image of Harry and Meghan, including a tree to the background, experiences the Mirror.
The well-known image was taken in 2021 with whizzy expertise that allowed Misan to take the snap remotely from London whereas the celeb couple had been within the US.
(Image: PA)
In a video on X/Twitter, Misan stated: “Hey, I’ve just got back to reality from the Oscars and unfortunately there’s been an article on the Daily Mail saying that I have admitted to doctoring the pregnancy announcement portrait I took of Harry and Meghan.
“Apparently, I was switching out trees and meadows and I admitted to this in an episode of a podcast called Private Passions.
“This is crazy. I was interviewed, I think it was in 2022, by a man called [Michael] Berkeley on Private Passions and we were talking about the technology I used to shoot people during lockdown.”
(Image: misanharriman/Twitter)
Misan then performed a clip from the podcast, during which he stated: “My most well-known virtual shoot is the portrait I took of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announcing their pregnancy.”
Michael stated: “They weren’t actually under a willow tree, but they were lying outside in a meadow, weren’t they, Harry and Meghan, when you took the photograph of them?”
Oscar-nominated director Misan replied: “Hmm, yeah, they were lost in their love at home in their garden, comfortable. It really was a particularly joyous image to celebrate life itself.”
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Referring to this change in his X video, Misan added: “So, how that exchange could amount to me admitting to doctoring an image is insidious and really dangerous journalism.
“Any mention of meadows and willow trees came out of the person doing the interview, not my mouth.
“So to see an article saying as fact that I did what I did not do is extraordinary to me.
“It was a virtual shoot that I shot on an iPad, an eight megapixel iPad, and the only thing that was changed was the black-and-white colour grade – that’s it.”
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