[A fan site] printed 3 photographs that are allegedly from the Vanity Fair shoot, and [I've] never seen [them] before until today.  I think this one in particular looks suspiciously like a forgery.

We’ve been enjoying delightful outtakes from this Vanity Fair shoot for nearly a year.  Several new photos surfaced again today.  Some people have questions about this photo featuring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.  As always, it’s such a chore to pour over Rob photos, but once again we make the sacrifice to figure this one out.

The Evidence

The photos are, as indicated at many of the sites that posted the photos, from an issue of Spain’s Hola magazine.  To the left, you can see the shot as it appeared in the magazine.The entire story was filled with photographs from the Peggy Sirota Vanity Fair shoot, including several that had never been seen before.

Upon a close look at the photograph in question, Kristen’s face does seem darker than either Rob’s face or the rest of her body.  But if you notice, you can also see the sun reflection coming through on the upper right on the photograph. The sun pops through on many of the photographs from this particular shoot.  In fact, you can see it right above Kristen’s head in the photograph on the top left of the picture here.

These sun rays are by no means visible in only this shot, but in many of the Vanity Fair pictures.

More importantly, there is video of this exact moment.  Vanity Fair shot video of the entire photoshoot and uploaded the behind-the-scenes video to their website.  You can see Rob and Kristen shoot this exact photograph at approximately 16:45 in the video, and see people viewing it on monitors at around 17:35.

 The Verdict

We’ve seen a ton of manips here at the site.  Some very, very good ones, and some that are so awful that we can’t believe that there is a question they are manipulations.

This one is pretty easy, though.  It is most definitely an authentic shot from the Vanity Fair photoshoot.  You can clearly see the two in this position in the behind-the-scenes video.

Alas, this seems to the be result of constant photo manipulations hitting the internet.  People are now very suspicious of what they see.  No need to be wondering about this one, though, or the other photographs in Hola magazine.  These sexy-as-hell shots are all real.

Tags: kristen stewart, photos, vanity fair

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