When a real estate advertisement came under fire this year for Photoshopping a “Chornobyl” green lawn out the front of an Adelaide property, the internet shared a bemused laugh. But according to real estate photographer Christine*, the mistake wasn’t Photoshopping the grass. It was the failure to suspend the viewers’ disbelief. Before and after images of lounge room which has been photoshoppedPhotographers add fires in fireplaces to make a room feel ‘warn and inviting’, but if the fireplace no longer functions it could be seen as misrepresentation. “We definitely add grass,” she says. “But it won’t look fake.” Christine has been in the business in Sydney for 13 years, and…