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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.)

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


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: prion

Perhaps they thought it was "Fake but accurate"?


61 posted on 08/05/2006 4:21:39 PM PDT by TruthWillWin
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To: wolficatZ
Here's another staged photo by the same photographer, Adnan Hajj. Notice the lask of dust on the push toy, especially the handle.
62 posted on 08/05/2006 4:22:19 PM PDT by vamoose
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To: Hadean

Geesh...

You know, this is so blatant I wonder if the photographer/editor did it on purpose to expose Reuters. Seriously, I or my 14 year old can do a better job by far than this and we've only got Jasc's PSP.


63 posted on 08/05/2006 4:24:57 PM PDT by LibertyRocks (MY BLOG: http://libertyrocks.wordpress.com)
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To: cripplecreek; Dallas59

That guy gets around!


64 posted on 08/05/2006 4:25:45 PM PDT by humblegunner (If you're gonna die, die with your boots on.)
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To: Registered

Professional opinion ping


65 posted on 08/05/2006 4:25:53 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: Hadean

Gee, would they photoshop smoke in Israel to make it look worse then it is too?

Rooters is a joke. I would trust nothing from them. Not even sports scores.


66 posted on 08/05/2006 4:26:32 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Hadean
Here is a larger version from Reuters.com - 450x304 -


67 posted on 08/05/2006 4:27:16 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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To: Hadean

Another photo by same photographe,Adnan Hajj, on Yahoo News Photos, in case you eagle eyes can spot a pattern on this one too.

69 posted on 08/05/2006 4:29:29 PM PDT by jwalburg (It wasn't the Executive that Thomas Jefferson referred to as "the Despotic Branch.")
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To: bitt

Reuters should put in a little more time and try to take some pride in their work. This is a poor effort.


70 posted on 08/05/2006 4:30:34 PM PDT by faq (Oh, you heard that, too.)
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To: Terpfen
Uh. The point is that this did NOT get lapped up.

oh, but i assure you it did.

what may happen starting from *NOW* is that the pajamahadin and the blogs may shame reuters for doing it, reverse the effect, and continue to undermine the credibility - but in most of the US and the rest of the world, the damage is already done, and reuters will continue to feed mush to the sheeple, who will continue to lap it up...

71 posted on 08/05/2006 4:33:02 PM PDT by chilepepper (The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
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To: Made in USA
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72 posted on 08/05/2006 4:33:37 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Please see new message, here: www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Hadean

The plumes don't seem to match what would be the air flow pattern.

The left plume seems to be the main source -- rising with a slight left to right air flow pattern.

So, where did the middle and right patterns originate? The air flow from the left plume would not create the center plume. The center plume would have had to rise from a source to the right of the main plume source.

As the main (left) plume would rise, it would be continuous as it spreads out in the upper right portion of the image. It would not crease a standalone plume (middle) to its right.


73 posted on 08/05/2006 4:34:40 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: ChadGore
Good evening.

Is that a straight hard edge on the upper right side of the column on the left?

Michael Frazier
74 posted on 08/05/2006 4:36:17 PM PDT by brazzaville (no surrender no retreat, well, maybe retreat's ok)
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To: LegendHasIt

I am not sickened by it. I am ecstatic they are exposing themselves in such an obvious way. I have used the clone tool too. I am not an expert, but I doubt whether smoke does that herring-bone look in two places at once.

Here's laughing at you, Al-Rooters.


75 posted on 08/05/2006 4:37:26 PM PDT by sine_nomine (Confidential to Bush: protect the borders. The first word in "illegal immigrant" is...?)
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To: jimtorr
There are odd square pixel formations in the middle plume as well, primarily in the base.

The square areas could be JPEG compression artifacts. But that wouldn't explain the pattern of the smoke eddies at the top.

76 posted on 08/05/2006 4:42:27 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

So, you are saying that the picture of Monsieur Jean Francois Kerry as the frankenstein monster has to be considered real since we haven't seen the original?


77 posted on 08/05/2006 4:42:43 PM PDT by Shimmer128 (If chocolate fudge cake could sing, it would sound like Barry White.)
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To: nmh

Reuters is an Arab owned news service, no?


78 posted on 08/05/2006 4:42:56 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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To: MAexile

The smoke on the left in transparent. I can see apartments/offices through it. I don't think I should be able to see through smoke that black.


79 posted on 08/05/2006 4:45:03 PM PDT by Excellence (Since November 6, 1998)
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To: Made in USA
What's with the right plume looking like a profile of a woman's face?

I don't see that, but the middle column of smoke has a herringbone pattern, a sign of cloning.

80 posted on 08/05/2006 4:46:57 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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