That Corsa – Copart special if ever I saw one! 350bhp motor? Someone’s taking the piss with the whole advert, which begs the question, why bother?
Going back to the estate agent photos, they don’t use a professional photographer, unless it’s a very expensive property where they’re printing a full-colour brochure with laminated glossy cover, etc. Usually it’s a member of staff who takes a bunch of snapshots, these days with a phone.
When I was working in prepress, we used to get lots of crappy photos sent in by estate agents to go into the brochures, frequently with the request to ‘brighten them up a bit’, ‘cos inevitably the exterior photos were taken on bright but overcast days, or dull and overcast days. I built up a library of sky photos, quite a few my own photos, others sourced from the internet, taken at different times of day, to try to match the angle of the sun in the photo by looking at any shadows. There was a bit of work involved in tweaking the overall tones, to try to make the image look as though there was some sun, removing blue from neutral tones, etc.
The clients were always chuffed to bits, but it was generally polishing a turd in reality.
