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
pajamahadeen never sleep, we just refresh our photoreceptors
thanks
a quote from whom?
the pixellation of the figure appears to match the oddities on its frings, but not the pixellation of the background. that says photomanip to me.
THAT IS SO INCREDIBLE!!
Reuters FAKING their pictures...emailed thread to FoxNews...
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Traveling troupe of players--2 pics of the same woman on two different days one by AP , one by Reuters, in which she is bewailing the loss of her home(s).
http://drinkingfromhome.blogspot.com/2006/08/extreme-makeover-beirut-edition.html
AP and Reuters and AFP wholly owned subsidiaries of Hezbollah.
(What's wrong with the pic of the guy leaving the burning building? The building was hit the night before is what is wrong. It was staged, not photoshopped.)
Reuters dumps the fake photographer:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=109338
Great that they are being forced to take the matter at least a tiny bit seriously -- but will they fully investigate ALL of the guy's work, especially Qana and other possible "fake but accurate" scenes????
“It should be noted that the photography credits for this "photo" go to a certain Adnan Hajj. Even though this photo clearly is not of natural smoke, one wonders why Reuters editors or even Yahoo photo editors, didn't catch the fake before it was released. Other questions have been raised about the biased nature of the photographer in question because it seems that some photos of the massacre in Qana photographed once again by Adnan Hajj look staged.
More here
Reuters Drops Photographer Who Faked Israeli Bomb Results
23:25 Aug 06, '06 / 12 Av 5766
(IsraelNN.com) Reuters News Agency has announced it is cutting from its payroll a freelance photographer who altered a photograph that showed that the results of an Israeli bombing were far worse than in reality.
An American news site caught the fake when it noticed that the billows of smoke in the photo showed a repetitious pattern. However, the news agency said that the photographer, Adnan Hajj, said the image was changed after he tried "to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under."
Hajj also photographed images of a dead child in the explosion in the village of Kana last week. Several private web sites have questioned the veracity of the pictures.
Thanks for the update.
Maybe they should think twice about hiring locals who often have a vested interest.
(But who am I kidding?)
Google Groups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
"lamestream"
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.rush-limbaugh/msg/4222e47d3c369a15?
"Lamestream Press" mentioned in 1996.
It gets better still -- someone writing to Powerlineblog says that an analysis of all the photos, dates, and times of "work" submitted by Adnan Hajj reveals it is impossible for one person to have taken all those photos. Apparently he may simply be a clearing house for Hezbollah propaganda (surprise). This aspect needs more study:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/
http://pajamasmedia.com/
Adnan Hajj: The complete works
Here are the complete works of photographer Adnan Hajj, the photographer whose picture of smoking Beirut Reuters has now "killed" and reissued in "corrected" form. Reuters has yet to explain what happened, who altered the photo, and whether other of of Hajj's (or Reuters') photographs may have been staged or altered. (Thanks to Pajamas Media.)
UPDATE: Ken Sanders writes:
You are missing the bigger point. There is NO WAY this one guy could be taking all of these pictures - look at the images and dates. Does he have a flying car?
The question: is he simply a clearinghouse for Hezbollah propaganda, routed expeditiously through Reuters? Looks like they pay the guy to forward unverified images (sometimes doctored or staged, as you've helped explain) taken by others.
More research is clearly warranted, and Reuters apparently is not inclined to introsepction on the subject.
"There is NO WAY this one guy could be taking all of these pictures - look at the images and dates. Does he have a flying car?"
This person might very well be right. But the dates on these photos mean next to nothing half the time.
As has been mentioned before, they are the time the photo was filed or published, or God knows what.
Still, the poster might be right.
True, the dates and times on the Yahoo list seem to be simply when the photos went out on the wires, not when they were taken. Also, Lebanon is not a very big country, though it may take awhile to get around with bridges out, etc. If the guy spends a day or a night criss-crossing southern Lebanon and then submits a slew of photos to Roto-Rooters it doesn't mean he took them all at the time Reuters distributes them. Anyway, I'm not sure we could get anywhere on this aspect without seeing all the original submissions, timestamps, etc. that Reuters gets -- THEY could research this angle, but I doubt they ever will. Duh.
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