Reuters withdraws all [920!] photos by freelancer [Hajj]

Reuters ^ | 7 Aug 2006 | Reuters

[Victoria Delsoul]

”Reuters has zero tolerance for any doctoring of pictures and constantly reminds its photographers, both staff and freelance, of this strict and unalterable policy."

LOL! Gosh, these guys are pitiful. Face the music guys, and admit that you knew it all along.

Reuter reminds me of Weird Al's song.

[HitmanLV]

Hahah that's a very fitting song! Great selection! Thanks for sharing it! :-)

[Alouette]

what is your impression of the two photos of the damaged multistory buildings = one with tiny people on the road, and the other with the single woman in the road.

It looks like the first picture was taken with a panoramic lens--which is very distorting--from a second-story window, the window frames the shot.

The second picture looks like it was taken at ground level using a regular lens.

[Incorrigible]

Hey PJ,

The cognitive dissonance over this is making them even more mentally unbalanced!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1840420

[ops33]

You are exactly correct. The main story in all this, IMHO, is that the fake photos were found out by bloggers, just like the fake Dan Rather documents.

[PistolPaknMama]

What are all the white splatter spots?

Probably just "dust marks" that will need to be fixed.

[rabidralph]

This is the photo I was thinking of. This photo is a composite by fired LA Times photog Brian Walski. This is from March 2003.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

"By withdrawing them are they not making them unavailable for people to investigate?"

I am certain this is an attempt to squelch the whole controversy and cut their losses. It won't work, though-- the Pajama Brigade is in full bellow.

[rabidralph]

Camera Iraq dot com

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Cool, thanks for that photo. Do you know where we can see the undoctored version?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Here's the FR thread on that photo:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/884509/posts

Don't see the "before" version, though. Still looking.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Photo before/after is viewable at http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=28082

...It's two photos patched together to make the soldier look threatening. Watch the .gif below:

[rabidralph]

Thanks, for the other link. No, I don't know where the undoctored one is. Here's a website, listing some more media deceit.

[claudiustg]

---On the other hand, could it not be a genuine secondary explosion, which means the Israelis hit exactly what they wanted to?---

It could be. The problem is that we don't know anymore.

[Hadean]

Even went back & looked at the LGF thread, thinking that 'Mike' on LGF and 'Hadean' on FR could be one & the same.

Actually, my name is Mike, just not the same Mike from LGF. My contribution was finding the AP photo of the same location proving there were duplicated buildings in the Hajj photo.

See post #224

[Ready4Freddy]

Thank you, Hadean, and good work! I saw your #224, and was thinking that you were showing us something new about the pic. Damned hard to keep track with FR and all the blogs cross-referencing each other!

[Hadean]

I know, it's crazy. I was confused for a little while myself. Ha.

[maica]

Thanks, the contrast of the woman's head, the tiny people and the black mark on the wall of the distant building remaining the same size, was playing tricks with my mind. I realized that one was shot close-up and the other from inside another damaged building.

[jwalburg]

Thanks.

[angkor]

RE Post 22 Image:

"On the other hand, could it not be a genuine secondary explosion,"

Yes. It's not the event that's odd. It's the too-perfect photographic image itself, which (what looks to me) like oversaturated colors, and contrast/brightness oddities that don't seem consistent with (a) the surrounding natural (low) light, and (b) the obvious fast shutter speed.

It just doesn't seem photographically natural to capture the almost-white color intensity of the explosive ball, and at the same time the sun reflecting off the front of the building immediately in front of the explosion.

The whole image just seems unnatural and doctored.