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Reuters Doctoring Photos from Beirut? [photo inside]
Little Green Footballs ^
| 8-5-2006
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.)
Its 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. Theres really no question about it.
Smoke billows from burning buildings destroyed during an overnight Israeli air raid on Beiruts suburbs August 5, 2006. Many buildings were flattened during the attack. REUTERS/Adnan Hajj
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2006israelwar; adnanhajj; alreuters; beirut; enemedia; fakeisnotaccurate; fakephotos; fauxtography; lgf; nuketheleft; pajamahadeen; photoshopfordummies; reuters
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To: Hadean
My pleasure. I pointed them to your post here and the original photo on Yahoo.
To: TXKATE
My kids feed each other non-sequitors from the movie.
Fezig, tear his arms off! -- There's more than 30!
382
posted on
08/05/2006 9:36:45 PM PDT
by
jwalburg
(It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
To: Made in USA
To: Texas Songwriter
hydrocarbon fires
Yes, that raises another point to pursue: were there ANY fires in this part of Beirut with such dark oily smoke at the time the photo was taken, or is ALL of the smoke overlaid from another photo (maybe of when Israel did bomb an oil storage depot, etc.)....... this thick black smoke is quite remarkable in appearance, not what we have seen in most war zone photos........ if we can find any other photos of this bombing site taken at approximately the same time we should have our answer.
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posted on
08/05/2006 9:42:43 PM PDT
by
Enchante
(Democrats do want to see victory in the War on Terror.......just not for our side........)
To: Enchante
Search the photo files of the first Gulf War. Remember, at Husseins orders, the oil fields were set on fire. You will see legitimate, black smoke fires.
To: optiblaster
Welcome to the world of paint-shop cloning.
386
posted on
08/05/2006 9:49:55 PM PDT
by
Blogger
(http://www.propheteuon.com)
To: potlatch; Lady Jag; ntnychik; PhilDragoo
387
posted on
08/05/2006 9:49:55 PM PDT
by
devolve
(fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
To: devolve
388
posted on
08/05/2006 9:51:39 PM PDT
by
potlatch
(Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: PajamaTruthMafia
OK..
So how do we get the word out to folks that can spread the word??
390
posted on
08/05/2006 9:55:49 PM PDT
by
tcrlaf
(Terrorism-You Reap What You Appease........)
To: Hadean; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; OSHA; ...
Lots of funny stuff in this thread. Have fun, kids.
To: Slings and Arrows; Xenalyte; pax_et_bonum; Bacon Man; Hap; humblegunner; Flyer
This thread is hilarious!
392
posted on
08/05/2006 10:08:28 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(FReeping LIVE! from "the other war zone.")
To: Hadean; nw_arizona_granny; Velveeta; Cindy
[Ping to this thread in case you haven't seen it... I think Hadean has caught Reuter's Red-Handed...]
LOL... Now my 10yo daughter just passed through, I asked her to look at the picture. She said after about 2 seconds looking at the pic, "That's fake Mom... I can do that in PSP! Smoke doesn't flow like that".
From the mouths of babes...
I really do hope that someone in the MSM (Maybe Reuter's competitors) will pick this up and run with it. I think I'll send an email and copy of the screen-shot I took earlier to our local media outlets up here.
393
posted on
08/05/2006 10:09:26 PM PDT
by
LibertyRocks
(MY BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com)
To: Hadean
I am *trying* to assess the claim of photomanipulation with skepticism, trying to convince myself that the possibility that those effects in the smoke *could* result from chance interactions (of light diffusion, lens refraction, and perhaps digital camera photoreceptor patterning) is worth intense scrutiny...
but, alas, I find I fail...
that sure does look like cloning or big-step smudging to me.
394
posted on
08/05/2006 10:12:28 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
To: humblegunner
Oh boy, this is too funny.
Just need to add anothe pic with the Gov, her highness.
395
posted on
08/05/2006 10:12:58 PM PDT
by
Prost1
(We can build a wall, we can evict - "Si, se puede!")
To: King Prout
Wait till you get to post
224.
396
posted on
08/05/2006 10:15:15 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
To: LibertyRocks
397
posted on
08/05/2006 10:15:47 PM PDT
by
Cindy
To: potlatch
398
posted on
08/05/2006 10:16:57 PM PDT
by
devolve
(fx 9125_AMERICANS_KILLED_2003_BY_ILLEGALS MEX_ILLEGAL_GOT_911_TERRORISTS_ID NO_NUEVO_TEJAS)
To: stuck_in_new_orleans
dont you need the actual, original photo in order to claim another one is fake?actually, no - depending on the crudity of the fake, of course. high zoom analysis, contrast filtering, and some other automated analisis techniques can make things like repixellation in a digital image REALLY obvious.
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posted on
08/05/2006 10:17:28 PM PDT
by
King Prout
(many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
To: Alouette
I am laughing so hard at your photoshop.
Hysterical!!!!!
400
posted on
08/05/2006 10:18:26 PM PDT
by
Brandie
(I do not ask you to support our Troops, I tell you that you must or you are no friend of mine.)
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