There is no photochopping in this picture!
I was born with an extra finger!
Hmmm ... I know roto-rooter news is a tad baised but this is over the top. It's probably doctored.
Aboslutly sickening, were do we raise our protest?
Even a picture isn't worth a thousand words anymore, especially if its from the MSM.
It DOES look like it was abused by the clone tool.
Good catch, LGF!
I was born with an extra finger!
dont you need the actual, original photo in order to claim another one is fake?
absolutely amazing but unfortunately not surprising. what is disgusting is how the sheeple lap up the pap served to them by the MSM.
I hope everyone's saving this pic to their hard drives before Rooter's changes it.
Boy, they need to do something about their pollution there. Algore is going to have a fit when he sees this!
Looks like they had to clone a LOT of smoke. I'll bet there wasn't 10% of that smoke in the original photo.
Can you supply the original Reuters URL for these pictures?
Definitely looks to me like someone using the Photoshop clone stamp. You can tell that the rounded portion of smoke was copied from the left side of the smoke plume and repeatedly stamped but when they copied it they caught a little of the light colored sky to the left and that was repeated in each stamp. It's clear as day. Each circular portion of smoke, bounded by the lighter color on the left, is identical in size and shape. There's no way that's natural.
Very poor quality fraud! Someone doesn't know how to use a clone brush!
I adjusted the brightness in photoshop by manipulating the light curves and added an arrow to more clearly show the retouching. Fake but accurate???
(Paging Dan Rather)
Anyone got an image correlation tool handy? We need to throw some math on this image.
It looks to me as if much or all of the smoke may have been photoshopped in. Some of the buildings in the left background look odd, as well.
First, the plume of smoke on the left. The smoke is not consistent in the lower portions. Where the buildings show through the plume, there are just no pixels of smoke there at all, but the smoke is thick right beside the buildings. The clone stamp tool is so obvious in the upper portions.
Next, the smoke plume on the right. The lower portions are properly fuzzy, but in the upper portions, there are large square areas in the middle of the plume. That is an indication that at least that portion of the plume was added to the photo.
There are odd square pixel formations in the middle plume as well, primarily in the base.