[Carry_Okie]

I do a fair amount of photoshop work to deal with difficult lighting conditions. I really don't think this in any way represents a deliberate distortion. The photo is an interesting montage obviously taken in high contrast light. They had to punch up the shadow levels to have a photo at all. They got lazy and didn't fix the color.

Personally, I think the author is getting paranoid.

[baystaterebel]

Totally agree. You can see the photo is shooting into a tough light situation. The open sky on the upper right most likely made the aperture close way down resulting in a dark picture. Lazy photoshop work trying to correct it, thats all.

Nothing to see here. Move along.