re: GQ's photoshoot for The Odyssey looks how you'd expect it to

You homos reading GQ now?

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So she just puts random shite together in Microsoft Paint?

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No, those are actual people and actual photographic shots. They just have makeup, colors are highly saturated, etc. Sometimes she uses miniatures or will take multiple shots to combine in one composition. This is from an Artsy article that explains some of her techniques back in 2018:

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Like a magician who asks you to inspect a deck of cards before using them in her next trick, Prager wants us to believe that her illusions are real. She shoots her scenes in-camera and avoids adding digital effects. “People know when they’re being lied to with CGI and Photoshop,” she told me. “If you walked onto one of my sets, everything you see in the picture [would be] there. You can touch it; it’s all tangible.”

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Like this one from a Hitchcockian series she did she explains how she cued it all up:

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In order to create the flock of convincingly murderous birds, Prager hired an animal trainer who brought boxes of homing pigeons to the shoot. With Prager behind the camera, the trainer crouched just out of frame at the model’s feet, releasing the birds from their boxes at her signal. Because she was shooting on film and had a limited number of birds, getting the perfect shot required a bit of luck. “I had no idea how fast the birds were going to fly away,” she recalled. “So a lot of the shots just have one foot from one bird in the frame, all the rest had already disappeared.”

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Artsy article