Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? [photo inside]

Little Green Footballs ^ | 8-5-2006

[Hadean]

OK, now things are getting weird.

This Reuters photograph shows blatant evidence of manipulation. Notice the repeating patterns in the smoke; this is almost certainly caused by using the Photoshop “clone” tool to add more smoke to the image. (Hat tip: Mike.)

It’s so incredibly obvious, it reminds me of the faked CBS memos. Smoke simply does not contain repeating symmetrical patterns like this, and you can see the repetition in both plumes of smoke. There’s really no question about it.

Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beirut’s suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj

[Hadean]

This is interesting. A Reuters Editor claiming they don't doctor photos. You'll have to scroll down a little to the Katherine Harris story, but here it is in text:

Question: After reporting the Katherine Harris story, where she was complaining that actual pictures of her did not make her look good, I just saw a Reuters picture that has been edited in PhotoShop eliminating wrinkles on her forehead!

What are you doing? Are you now doctoring up photos for the sole purpose of vanity? This is a new low in news reporting, What other photos have you doctored up, and how can we trust any Reuters photo is real?

Response By Editor: As we’ve often said here, we do not alter, doctor or touch up photographs, and I can’t even imagine why we would eliminate a politician’s wrinkles. The photo we used was taken four years ago, as the caption indicated, so that might have something to do with fewer wrinkles: Editor

[AZLiberty]

I just learned how to enter longitude and latitude into Google Maps. To find this location, paste "33 51 20 N, 35 30 31 E" into the search box at Google Maps.

[Hadean]

Link to above:

http://usa.testy.reuters.com/news/GBUStories.aspx

[ASA Vet]

Here's a July 16, 1999 post by 1OldPro

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a378d80d401b7.htm#41

To: Freedom Wins

The only difference between Drudge and the lamestream media is that he admits his bias...they don't.

41 Posted on 07/16/1999 08:24:56 PDT by 1Old Pro
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[Minutemen]

Hey! it's the HEINEKEN dude from N.O.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Saturday Night Live used to have Really Bad Opera. I suggest we have Reeeeeally Bad Photoshops.

My first deliberately bad entry: THE ORIGINAL UNRETOUCHED PHOTO, DIRECTLY FROM KARL ROVE...clearly the photo is NOT doctored...

/ SATIRE OFF

with PROFUSE apologies to Prime Choice, Martin Fierro and whom it may concern...

[PajamaTruthMafia]

ROFL!!!

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Pssst. Over here.

[Straight Vermonter]

You guys will love this.

[Lady Jag]

That is precisely what happens when I use the push tool.

[shezza]

Shades-of-Buckhead Ping!

[Lady Jag]

That's the push tool in Paint Shop Pro, not the clone.

[potlatch]

LOL, Spirit! I'm working somebody over in the animator right now!! Maybe later.

[tsmith130]

From LGF:

UPDATE at 8/5/06 8:11:06 pm:

IMPORTANT!

The original for this faked photo has been discovered. And it was taken on July 26, 2006, credited to the Associated Press, by Ben Curtis: Yahoo! News Photo. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)

Notice the lower right area of this photo, and compare to lower left of the doctored photo. Notice how all the buildings line up perfectly, including the oddly shaped building on the horizon. I’m putting together another overlay to make it painfully obvious.

[Blogger]

So he's not only a photo faker but a plagierist?

[brewer1516]

Same here. I used Photoshop for years. This is probably one of the worst clone jobs I've seen.

[tsmith130]

Apparently.

[cpdiii]

Look on the lower left side of the expanding plume of smoke. You will see the same pattern repeated on the second plume of smoke. As was said about the Bushes National Guard Memo, THIS IS A FORGERY!

[jwalburg]

Yes. This time I see it. Thanks.