The Very Old Debate About Image Manipulation

Luminous Landscape ^ | June 24, 2015 | Ignacio Palacios

[MeshugeMikey]

Following some recent discussions about the way I created an image of an Aurora (see video below) using Photoshop layers and the post-processing work I undertook on an image I captured in the Antelope Canyon in Page, Arizona (where I introduced a fake shaft of light), I have decided to write an article about Image Manipulation.

[MeshugeMikey]

the aforementioned photo aside... the article is a great compilation of material on "Image Manipulation"

[ctdonath2]

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

I didn’t know Jack Ruby played the guitar.

[JoeProBono]

[doorgunner69]

ya mean like this:?

[FredZarguna]

Very, very difficult to fake that one because so may journalists were on hand:

[FredZarguna]

[FredZarguna]

[Ventilator on]

For your reference, the original unretouched photograph:

[FredZarguna]

Say... if I didn't know there were extensive alterations ... I'd swear that was just an <img src= > with different height and width settings from what was already posted at #2...

[GregoTX]

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

It’s clearly fake. Jim Leavelle played a Yamaha, not a Roland.

[RandallFlagg]

Anyone remember this?

[FredZarguna]

Kennedy conspiracy theorists always cite the so-called "Yamaha connection," but it's every bit as bogus as this photograph. Yes, Torakusu Yamaha's father was a samurai who probably knew Woody Harrelson's great-great grandfather, and may well have set Harrelson's father on the path to his career as a murderer-for-hire.

And so what?

Charles Harrelson was not one of the "three tramps," and was never on the "grassy knoll."

The rest is all duff. The Roland D-20 in the photo didn't exist until 1988. Yamaha didn't export an electronic organ into the US until 1968, and the models they produced before that were home/hobby rigs that would have been unsuitable for this ensemble. Leavelle played a Hammond, as did all red-blooded American boys in 1963.

Musicians, as John Lennon so famously pointed out on The Tom Snyder Show shortly before his own tragic assassination, are in the business to "get a little ... extra." And no decent looking American girl would have given a keyboardist with a faggoty Jap rig so much as the time of day.

And please do not get started on the "notorious parallel" in which Lincoln's Surgeon General William Hammond lavishly praised nuns of various orders for their service as nurses during the Civil War at a time when anti-Catholic prejudice ran high. [Kennedy <-> Catholic <-> Hammond Organ <-> General Hammond <-> Catholic nuns <-> Lincoln.]

Yes, yes, it's a very compelling coincidence... and just another red herring.

Now, what a megafamous artist like John Lennon was doing on The Tom Snyder Show at 2:00 AM -- that's an interesting piece of the jigsaw puzzle. Unfortunately, Lennon's disinformation campaign for the CIA, his own death [which was intended to be a fake that went tragically wrong], and of course Lennon's role in the Kennedy assassination will all remain sealed until November, 2063.

[equaviator]

Hey, what happened to his ears? Hmmm, this must have been before they were fully extended.

[MeshugeMikey]

absolutely! The very WORST case of CHEESEY Manipulation in Memory!

Oh Ive done worse...PURPOSEFULLY....but not with the intent that THAT RUETERS moron had!

[MeshugeMikey]

now THAYS some Basically dishonest Manipulation that MIGHT even “get by” todays photo editors

[MeshugeMikey]

BEAUTIFULL!! and I mean FULL!!

[MeshugeMikey]

now that is just plain CHEESEY.

the dark shadow on Momsies hand...would not BE that BROWN were it a real shadow that occured as a integral part of that purported photograph

[MeshugeMikey]

I know that one was a fake, because Jesse Jackson’s image has been “Cloned” out!