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Yahoo News Photo [Another fake photo? Follow-up to thread pulled minutes ago]
Yahoo ^ | 8/8/6 | Mohammed Ballas

Posted on 08/09/2006 7:52:44 AM PDT by ZGuy

A Palestinian militant fires toward Israeli troops during an arrest raid in the West Bank village of Qabatiyeh near Jenin, Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006. Four Palestinians were wounded when the army arrested an Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades militant, Palestinians sources said. The army said two Islamic Jihad militants were arrested during the operation. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)



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KEYWORDS: fauxtography
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To: orionblamblam
"It does look "off.""

Certainly does. If it IS a fake I like the detail. They even have a spent shell casing in the air.

21 posted on 08/09/2006 7:58:20 AM PDT by KoRn
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To: Xenalyte

your right...no sunlight on the gunman's back


22 posted on 08/09/2006 7:58:29 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF...8th TFW...Ubon Thailand...408thMMS..."69"...Night Line Delivery...AMMO!!)
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To: ZGuy

The shooter looks too "clean"


23 posted on 08/09/2006 7:58:47 AM PDT by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: ZGuy
If you check out the Photos you'll see that the "dead" guy in photo 2 looks awfully familiar to "not dead" guys in photos 4 and 6.

E's not dead
24 posted on 08/09/2006 7:59:02 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: ZGuy; Xenalyte

It's the guy from the Gilmore Girls shooting the gun


25 posted on 08/09/2006 7:59:22 AM PDT by pissant
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To: BenLurkin

Well he's not in uniform so I have to assume he's a "civilian" even though the caption calls him a "militant".

I guess if he was shot in retaliation for opening fire, he'd be listed among dead civilians.


26 posted on 08/09/2006 7:59:45 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: ZGuy

Those people would be getting their faces slammed with HOT brass each time that guy fired!!! If this were a real photo, those guys would be ducking and/or running like hell to get away from the brass!!!


27 posted on 08/09/2006 7:59:46 AM PDT by true_blue_texican
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To: Agent Smith
If these lazy and stupid media outlets are going to create news du jour. These images are fair game! Lets sue the bastards!

I have no qualms about questioning every single photo from AP or Reuters because the cannot be trusted.

28 posted on 08/09/2006 8:00:03 AM PDT by frogjerk (REUTERS: We give smoke and mirrors a bad name)
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To: cripplecreek

Sorry dead guy in photo 6 looks like not dead guy in photos 2 and 4.


29 posted on 08/09/2006 8:00:49 AM PDT by cripplecreek (If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?)
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To: Xenalyte

I noticed that everybody seems to be in perfect focus.

Kinda hard with some in the background.


30 posted on 08/09/2006 8:00:55 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Kol Hakavod Lezahal)
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To: WBL 1952
I didn't notice the ejected shell, good eye! Still, I can see the guy behind's tshirt:


31 posted on 08/09/2006 8:00:55 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
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To: ZGuy

If the gunman is a Pali, why is he holding an M-16? The Pali's use AK-47s. The sling looks non-standard, too, completely different from what is saw the IDF honeys wearing.


32 posted on 08/09/2006 8:01:04 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
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The people in the background are being hit by the ejecting shells; that is why they are wincing.


33 posted on 08/09/2006 8:01:08 AM PDT by MattMa ("Void of ideas, driven by hate, vote the Democratic Party in 2008")
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To: ZGuy
The angle of the light that is on their heads does appear to be different...........

Background people: Light seems to coming from a 1 to 2 o'clock position.
Shooter: Light is more directly overhead at 12 o'clock.

JMHO.

34 posted on 08/09/2006 8:01:40 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: ZGuy

Nope, thats a real photo.


35 posted on 08/09/2006 8:02:41 AM PDT by Bommer
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To: dennisw

I agree. I think it's staged. If not, the photographer is standing in clear view of whoever the shooter is trying to hit. However, I don't see any reason to Photoshop it, when you've got people willing to pose.


36 posted on 08/09/2006 8:02:48 AM PDT by Richard Kimball (The most important thing is sincerity. Once you can fake that, everything else is easy.)
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To: Andy from Beaverton
It's a lousy fake.
One of the bigger mistakes novice PhotoShoppers make is not knowing when to "degrade" their own images.
The biggest issue, aside from perspective, is that the "shooter" is too sharp.
He needs to have the same kind of digital noise or blurryness applied to him as the spectators originally suffered.

10% Gaussian blur would have completed this photo.

37 posted on 08/09/2006 8:03:15 AM PDT by MassExodus (If the Pen is mightier than the Sword, then PhotoShop is a Nuclear Bomb.)
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To: ZGuy; MattMa

Look very closely at the weapon. It has no magazine.


38 posted on 08/09/2006 8:03:32 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (USAF Air Rescue "That others may live.")
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To: ZGuy

Don't be duped. This is a case of "see, BOTH sides do this". Can't be certain, but the photo looks OK to me. Looks like the gun just fired; residual smoke visible in front of the boys an one man. And if the gunman is pasted in, someone did a fine job.


39 posted on 08/09/2006 8:03:36 AM PDT by bobsatwork
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To: cripplecreek
More on that image here...

"Fauxtography" alert: NYTimes and USNews (MichelleMalkin.com August 8, 2006)

40 posted on 08/09/2006 8:04:03 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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