Q Talk

[Kachina624]

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@surfk wrote:

But as the snout or muzzle of the dog is so fore-shortened in the illustration, it could pass as a Collie especially with its coloring.  You know, if you had to run into it in a dark alley somewhere in a fog and you were slightly drunk.

Collies don't come in that color.  It's called a red Merle and it has a coat of mixed red and white hairs.  There is also a blue Merle with black and gray hairs.  Collies come in black tri, sable and white, blue Merle and white with a head colored in one of the aforementioned types.  That dog's head doesn't look at all like a collie.  It's a lot smaller too.

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[surfk]

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[Drythe]

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@surfk wrote:

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@GingerPeach wrote:

What is about the picture that makes it an illustration?  Is it shadows, or colors, or objects, or the dog's pose, or something else?  Now I'm more than curious as to what you see.

Help us see what you see, @surfk

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The dog is simply not attached to the rest of the picture. Its not quite right. Its not anchored in quite the correct way to the rest of the image.

Its a lovely image. But the artifice of lighting around the frame of its head is obvious. Its clearly based on or employing a photo in some way. But its enhanced or tweaked. The fur isn't quite as tactile as is the sofa cover.The dog appears to be a separate image crafted into the picture. Its done well but there is something not right about it.

And the ball on the trunk is not fully realistic (for such a highly realistic image).

Just a lot of oddities to it point to it being morphed into something of an illustration.

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Thank you - because honestly whatever breed it is, I thought it was stuffed.

[flickerbulb]

That is one of Dan's dogs and are all trained professionally by his wife, Kelly. Those dogs will stop and pose on a dime on command. They also work on his farm and herd livestock.

It looks like a posed photograph from a trained dog. I have three dogs and I doubt one of them will "strike a pose" like the one in the photo!

[MacDUFF]

ITA that the dog looks photoshopped/superimposed on the couch, especially due to the halo effect around its ears.  OTOH, the shadowing and indentation on the couch around the dog look right...maybe it's just a weird thing that happened because of the whiteness around his ears when the camera flashed or something like that...?  As far as the uneveness (for lack of a better word) of the ball, that could be "artistic."  Everything else looks like a photo to me.

[GingerPeach]

Could one of the moderators (or, as I like to call them, our "Mod Squad") help us out by asking Dan Hughes?

Or someone who is actually on Facebook could ask Dan about the photo?  (I choose not to be "on" Facebook so I can only read whichever pages are public.)

Curious minds want to know.

[dooBdoo]

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To my eye this is a photograph.  Probably technically enhanced to highlight areas, like the dog's ears and the fact that the product is in more focus than objects to the side.  I think using Norman Rockwell as an example of an illustrator is good...  an illustration is a drawing, sketch, painting, etc., "from blank canvas up" as opposed to an altered photo.

If this does become one of the Q forum's "great debates," I agree that Dan Hughes probably could settle it.  Sweet pup in the image!

jmo,ymmv

[Kachina624]

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@surfk wrote:

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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Collies don't come in that color.  It's called a red Merle and it has a coat of mixed red and white hairs.  There is also a blue Merle with black and gray hairs.  Collies come in black tri, sable and white, blue Merle and white with a head colored in one of the aforementioned types.  That dog's head doesn't look at all like a collie.  It's a lot smaller too.

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We agreed (earlier) it is an Aussie.

And I watch my Lassie movies and s/he was that color. Unless of course, s/he had to endure the MGM hairdresser's dye table throughout a picture. lol

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Lassie was/is sable and white.  Big difference between Lassie's color and this Aussie.  I live with a sable and white collie and an Aussie; I know the difference.

[Kachina624]

I see a photo that has possibly been digitalły enhanced probably to increase the contrast in the color of the dog and the sofa cover.  The halo effect on the edges of the ears appear to be white hairs.