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Title: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: Unhooked on March 02, 2006, 02:16:42 AM
Discuss..
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: jwb on March 02, 2006, 02:27:25 AM
It's almost like they shrink the guys heads to make everything look bigger....
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Post by: analcandy on March 02, 2006, 04:36:53 AM
photosopped.
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Post by: Rimbaud on March 02, 2006, 05:52:05 AM
Yes, his head shrinks while doing leg presses.
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Post by: HICKSON on March 02, 2006, 06:15:04 AM
The only thing that displeases me about Grant is his forarms. They slope off something fierce after the elbow (lack fullness). but all in all the man is a freak no doubt..
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: 240 is Back on March 02, 2006, 06:16:30 AM
Yes, his head shrinks while doing leg presses.

hahaha

someone turned the contrast up big time too
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Post by: Rimbaud on March 02, 2006, 06:18:00 AM
That happens to me quite often...it sucks because then my hat falls down over my eyes.
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Post by: analcandy on March 02, 2006, 06:23:14 AM
the quads screams "we have been enlarged using photoshop"
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Post by: Cool Black Clyde on March 02, 2006, 07:11:05 AM
If it's from "Photoshop Development" (formerly known as MD) we know it's fake.
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Post by: Karl Kox on March 02, 2006, 07:12:21 AM
agree
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Post by: st@nco on March 02, 2006, 07:44:00 AM
To fully understand how much of an effect photo editing can have, go to this link:

 <http://www.fluideffect.com/>

click on 'portfolio' and then click on the photos... mental!

Don't believe your eyes; most publicised photos these days do not truly represent the subject matter 
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: Captain Equipoise on March 02, 2006, 08:14:44 AM
I think this pic might be legit, it's just taken in a way that makes branch looks massive, little photography tricks.. taken from a low angle facing up, also taken pretty close to him. When you take a pic of something up close the parts that are closer to the lens tend to dwarf the parts that are further away, they used a similar kind of trick to shoot LOTR to make Gandalf look 8 feet tall, I forgot what it was called, I think forced perspective or something... but anyhow , that's why his head looks so small compared to the camera side of his body.
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Post by: 240 is Back on March 02, 2006, 08:17:41 AM
To fully understand how much of an effect photo editing can have, go to this link: <http://www.fluideffect.com/>
click on 'portfolio' and then click on the photos... mental!
Don't believe your eyes; most publicised photos these days do not truly represent the subject matter 

that's a pretty cool page
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: Gord on March 02, 2006, 08:30:35 AM
The only thing that displeases me about Grant is his forarms. They slope off something fierce after the elbow (lack fullness). but all in all the man is a freak no doubt..

Who's Grant?
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Post by: pluck on March 02, 2006, 08:34:06 AM
I think it's legit. Has anyone seen Palumbo's leg shots? I think they're off his website, I've seen them posted here a while back. Anyways Dave's legs were looking pretty amazing too...unlike the rest of him. He had a couple pics of him doing legpress, so if Palumbo can have legs that are ripped and almost as big, Branch's pic is legit.
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Post by: seanashbrook on March 02, 2006, 08:40:13 AM
he'll beat gustavo at this years olympia. gustavo "natural" badell will get his GH gut back and slide down.
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: benchthis on March 02, 2006, 08:45:15 AM
im suprised with the amount of mass branch had put on he hasnt grown a belly  maybe it isnt wat u eat after all  ;)
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Post by: Double XL on March 02, 2006, 08:56:33 AM
Discuss..
i scanned that pic from MD.
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Post by: IceCold on March 02, 2006, 09:08:32 AM
looks good to me.  it may have digitized to make some of the lighting and vascularity look better, but that's about it.  its a close up from a lower angle that branch is.  plus, he's 5'7 and competes at 240.
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Post by: st@nco on March 02, 2006, 09:25:56 AM
that's a pretty cool page

crazy ain't it!?

Have you seen the pic of paris and nicole?...

...Nicole has lierally been cut down the middle!

No wonder she's got an eating dissorder!
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Post by: DEFCON on March 02, 2006, 09:44:02 AM
I think it's fake. just looking at the edge of his arm shows something was done. it looks artificially 3d. I noticed the same thing with the new MD with Bill Wilmore. The colored pictures inside were messed with in the same way. Looks like they are selecting certain body parts and then enlarging them. When this done the edges look weird.
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Post by: seanashbrook on March 02, 2006, 09:57:47 AM
he's really 170lbs in person.good lighting for the pic.
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Post by: HICKSON on March 02, 2006, 11:12:59 AM
Who's Grant?

ment Branch
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Post by: Dr.J on January 19, 2013, 01:38:43 AM
Gezzzz!!!
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Post by: Kwon_2 on January 19, 2013, 01:41:49 AM
The only thing that displeases me about Grant is his forarms. They slope off something fierce after the elbow (lack fullness). but all in all the man is a freak no doubt..

What? Grant always had great forearms!
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: OTHstrong on January 19, 2013, 01:45:00 AM
It's legit but they use a camera that drastically changes the size of the objects as they get closer to the camera, forget what it's called
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Post by: tommywishbone on January 19, 2013, 01:55:36 AM
I would guess the picture was shot with a 35mm using a 35 down to 24mm lens aka wide angle lens. Then the image was photoshopped to "enchance" and then "sharpen & contrast"
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Post by: Kwon_2 on January 19, 2013, 01:56:24 AM
Discuss..


(http://oi48.tinypic.com/zyemfp.jpg)

Looks legit to me
Title: Re: Is This Pic Of BRANCH Legit?
Post by: tommywishbone on January 19, 2013, 01:57:29 AM
hahahaha    I need a little head.