Posted on 08/05/2006 3:52:31 PM PDT by 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
Not only do the horizons not match, the building is gone, implying this is not the same angle.
If you could see the part at the top which was trimmed off, you would see that it was made on a computer at a Kinkos in Abeline, Texas.
.... but look at the upper left - I don't see a match at the horizon???
"Other than that, Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"
So, are you saying there is no doctoring here? I left sin and cos behind in high school, so I'm innumerate now and don't quite follow you.
Notice anything? Yeah, those tricky Israelis took out an entire identical building!
Beirut was rocked by at least four powerful explosions that reverberated throughout the city, and huge plumes of smoke, dust and debris billowed over the capital’s southern suburbs.
Adnan Hajj/Reuters
The vantage point seems to be the same as the other.
The date of the photo is 7/25/2006.
So that's what the plastic on the person on the right's hand is--The baggie for the pacifier GHM installed on the kid's body. Note NO dirt on the blue lanyard, and GHM's hand is covering the pacifier (no gloves, hard to attach that with gloves on).
If you look closely, you will see that horizon, along with the odd building on the horizon, is displaced by exactly the same
offset (to the right and upward) as the doctored copy of the four or five story building in the midground (to the right of the plume) is offset from the its original. The obvious conclusion: the offset horizon in the doctored image is part of the same copied, overlayed image as the copied four or five story building. Please exercise your cognition to the utmost.
I don't know... that guy holding the cat looks fake...
Good catch!
placemark
So he might have his own favorite vantage point overlooking Jihadstan central.........maybe that's the window view from his room at Jihad HQ....... this cuts against the idea that he swiped a photo from that other photographer, but there's still the obvious photoshopping of smoke and repetition of buildings for Roto-Rooters to explain.
Thanks. I was going to do the same thing.
Got it, thanks for the explanation! So when that building is cloned it's not overlaid on other background but rather pushed the rest of the image the same distance upwards?
I believe so.
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