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

[King Prout]

yes.
and the sad thing is, application of a few secondary filters on a hugely oversized working image, with a final resize, will hide almost all telltales of photomanipulation.

[King Prout]

ugh!
what a rabid pack of virulent suckheads!
*shudder*

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

welcome to FR!

[Starman417]

this one looks a bit suspicious Link here

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

LOL! Perfect!

[Starman417]

It's a different photographer but looks suspicious, maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight.

[NordP]

Yes, this is yet another case cracked, thanks to CSI-FR!

[Sam Hill]

Smoke rises from a Hizbollah stronghold in southern Beirut, July 25, 2006. strikes. (Adnan Hajj/Reuters)

[NordP]

Thank you for the extreme belly laugh before I head off to bed. OMG...THAT was funny.

[MaineVoter2002]

Reuters and BBC dont trust any of them

http://www.phxnews.com/fullstory.php?article=38323

THANK GOD FOR FOX NEWS!

[nopardons]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[ApplegateRanch]

with a final resize, will hide almost all telltales of photomanipulation.

I depend on that fact to keep the pets and relatives happy with their pictures. OTOH, I''m not selling or publishing them either.

The only shots I ever sold or entered in contests have been printed directly from 35mm negatives by a professional photography shop.

I won't submit a digital image, nor enter a conest that allows them...almost non-existent nowadays. Too much room for fraud, rather than skill.

[LibSnubber]

Re your Post #420... I think you're onto another forged photo here. The guy walking in the foreground - something just doesn't look right.

[MaineVoter2002]

cnn is another one...Reuters, BBC and CNN... they lie

http://newsbusters.org/node/6552

THANK GOD FOR FOX!

[itsamelman]

...has he never heard of working at 1000x, then doing serial soften, despeckle, and median-cut filtrations before resizing the image down to final dimensions?


Yeah, what you said!


(uh, what did you say...?)

[kik5150]

[Colorado Doug]

Same unseen body "discovered" three times.

Lebanese rescuers cover a body that was uncovered in the rubble of a bombed house in the south Lebanese village of Srifa (REUTERS/Adnan Hajj)

A Lebanese man holds his nose against the smell of an unseen dead body in the rubble, at the southern town of Srifa, Lebanon (AP Photo/Huseein Malla)

Lebanese man Hassan Najdi uncovers human remains of a person from under the rubble of a building, destroyed in Israeli forces' bombardment, in the southern village of Srifa, Lebanon (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20060803_1.htm

[FreedomCalls]

I took your photo and overlayed Hajj's photo from the same area so that it is easier to see what has been photoshopped.

[jschwartz]

There are indeed extra buildings.

[Captainpaintball]

This age of digital imaging is going to make it damned near impossible to put any trust in the newz media, or anyone, for that matter. Reputable newz services should demand non-digital imaging for their reporting.