[JustaDumbBlonde]

So that I fully understand ... you're making an allegation against the photographer based on the premise that Sarah Palin has never had red eyes? Never suffered from an allergy or had a long plane flight or sleepless night with a sick child?

Please explain why you believe that this photo has been manipulated.

[Minion]

Like I said “I could be wrong”. Its just funny that she looks like she’s been drinking all night. Doesn’t anyone remember the PS tricks they pulled with condolezza’s photos?

http://www.alexanderjason.com/alteration-condi.htm

[Karma Police]

bingo.

for everyone else the AP photo workflow is generally as follows:

The photographer will burst fire 4 or 5 frames in under a second during interesting moments, shoot about a quarter through a press conference/speech, leave, upload photos onto a laptop, batch process (size, color profile conversion, etc), batch caption, and then upload a tight edit of his take onto the AP servers/wire. All this is done very quickly, because most AP shooters are competing with Reuters and Getty/AFP to get their photos across the wire first. No time for miniscule photoshop adjustments...