The contrast and brightness between the explosion and the building immediately in front of it seem very suspect.
I think Reuters found far more than two questionable photos in the Hajj database (and maybe others).
Posted on 08/07/2006 3:10:52 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
Edited on 08/07/2006 5:13:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
The contrast and brightness between the explosion and the building immediately in front of it seem very suspect.
I think Reuters found far more than two questionable photos in the Hajj database (and maybe others).
That pic definitely looks like the protestor was photoshopped into a pic of the burning background.
Yeah... that's the ticket.
Look what that says... only a majority of the images they have looked at HAVE NOT BEEN DOCTORED!!!!
Does that mean that only 450 of the 920 pictures have been photoshoped? If it were 8 or 10 percent that had been doctored they would have said "Only a small percentage have been doctored"
What should happen next is photos by other Rueters photogs should be examined carefully. If pictures taken other photographers can be found to have been doctored that would blow Reuters out of the water.
This is such a pathetic attempt at a Photoshop cloning tool, a blind man could see it was a fake in a second! All the billowing clouds are exact dups! I mean he should have at least masked it and downed the contrast and brightness to make it somewhat believable!
Okay Reuters, how many more doctored pictures have you got? Come clean, What did you know and when did you know it???
Oops, sorry, I was referring to the pictures in this thread, post #12. Looks like it's possibly the same woman.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1679185/posts
A Lebanese protester holds up his fingers showing how old he was when his family first suggested he would be trained into becoming a suicide bomber.
What are all the white splatter spots?
"Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database on Monday after an urgent review of his work showed he had altered two images from the conflict between Israel and the armed group Hizbollah."
at LEAST 2 images - There, fixed it..
Read again-- this is a considerable escalation, *all* 920 photos by Hajj have been pulled from the Reuters database.
They'll rehire him under a new name.
They're all still available on yahoo news.
My apologies for my earlier post. I had read it on Drudge, and had seen it referenced within FR threads here and there.
looks as if the tip of the second from the left plume may have been duped to enhance the fa right plume.
Following this logic to it's rational conclusion, ALL Reuters photos should be pulled...
This was a predictable action by Reuters. That is why I saved about 25 of his pictures on my 'puter. Hopefully many others have done the same.
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