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Reuters drops freelance Lebanese photographer over image
Reuters ^
| 06 Aug 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 08/06/2006 2:51:43 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
LONDON, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Reuters, the global news and information agency, told a freelance Lebanese photographer on Sunday it would not use any more of his pictures after he doctored an image of the aftermath of an Israeli air strike on Beirut.
The photograph by Adnan Hajj, which was published on news Web sites on Saturday, showed thick black smoke rising above buildings in the Lebanese capital after an Israeli air raid in the war with the Shi'ite Islamic group Hizbollah, now in its fourth week.
Reuters withdrew the doctored image on Sunday and replaced it with the unaltered photograph after several news blogs said it had been manipulated using Photoshop software to show more smoke.
Reuters has strict standards of accuracy that bar the manipulation of images in ways that mislead the viewer.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters.
"This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a statement issued in London.
Hajj worked for Reuters as a non-staff freelance, or contributing photographer, from 1993 until 2003 and again since April 2005.
He was among several photographers from the main international news agencies whose images of a dead child being held up by a rescuer in the village of Qana, south Lebanon, after an Israeli air strike on July 30 have been challenged by blogs critical of the mainstream media's coverage of the Middle East conflict.
Reuters and other news organisations reviewed those images and have all rejected allegations that the photographs were staged.
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To: Hadean
This guy was carrying something here and it was smudged out. Wonder what it was. Two guesses.
To: PajamaTruthMafia
This guy's DNA could be on a blue dress and he would still lie about it. What a pathetic excuse he had.
222
posted on
08/07/2006 10:08:15 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: PajamaTruthMafia
223
posted on
08/07/2006 10:28:38 PM PDT
by
expatguy
(http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
To: PajamaTruthMafia
REgarding #207
There is nothing wrong with the two photos.
The one on the left was taken from a greater distance, using a telephoto lens. You can see the same palm tree and base of the antenna tower way back in the distance.
In the one on the right, the same palm and antenna tower appear much closer
224
posted on
08/07/2006 10:39:05 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: keat
There have been a lot of "tounge in cheek" "fake" photos posted, but this one is the best!!!!
225
posted on
08/07/2006 10:39:42 PM PDT
by
Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
(The UN did such a great job with Oil for Food in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country)
To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
It's not fake at all. One photo was taken with a telephoto lens...the other with normal lens at a slightly different angle.
Nothing wrong here...move along. ;^)
226
posted on
08/07/2006 10:52:32 PM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: DCPatriot
I was replying to post 196. That was a post of a Vietnam era photo with a fake caption identifying it as a current Beirut photo.
227
posted on
08/07/2006 10:56:14 PM PDT
by
Private_Sector_Does_It_Better
(The UN did such a great job with Oil for Food in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country)
To: DCPatriot
Wow. Thanks for pointing that out. I had no idea lenses had such capabilities.
228
posted on
08/08/2006 6:50:26 AM PDT
by
Hadean
To: Hadean
Yes telephoto lenses scrunch all the background toward the point of focus.
If you look at the radio tower just to the right of the rear wheels...with the palm tree and bushes...which appear in the distant background in the photo on the right, you see what I mean.
That same antenna, bushes and palm tree appear much closer to the vehicle in the photo on the left.
A 300 mm lense would do that.
229
posted on
08/08/2006 8:44:02 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: PajamaTruthMafia
See #229...for explanation of reply #207.
No doctoring done at all. Telephoto lens used in photo on right.
230
posted on
08/08/2006 8:47:13 AM PDT
by
DCPatriot
("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon)
To: DCPatriot
Got it. Makes sense. Would it also affect the sky (no clouds) and the ground?
Here's another view of the scene
It comes from ABC http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1685283.htm
To: DCPatriot
No doctoring done at all.Good point. I've looked carefully at all the photos and none appear faked.
It's easy to get carried away when there is blood in the water.
232
posted on
08/08/2006 10:37:39 AM PDT
by
keat
(I'm carbon neutral - how 'bout you?)
To: Cindy; backhoe; Mo1; Coop
233
posted on
08/08/2006 5:04:09 PM PDT
by
fanfan
(WAW - Women Against Weenification!)
To: fanfan
LOL! The admissions are coming in hot and heavy now! Must be something in the water *L*
234
posted on
08/08/2006 5:29:11 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
To: kcmt01
You've nailed it; they didn't can him for doctoring an image, the canned him for being lousy at it. A 5 year old could edit photos better than this guy did. I couldn't believe what a poor job he did. It's laugable.
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posted on
08/08/2006 5:37:02 PM PDT
by
Jorge
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