Posted on 05/26/2007 6:49:12 PM PDT by dr_lew
Palestinians run as a rocket falls at them during an Israeli air strike on the Hamas Executive Force building in Nusseirat refugee camp in the centre of the Gaza strip, Friday.
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This photo was on the front page of the NYT National Edition today, May 26, 2007. Their caption reads, "Palestinians ran as a missile fired by the Israeli Army came down on a Hamas post in the central Gaza strip." This seems to assume a ground-to-ground missile.
The NYT didn't use the second photo in the Seattle Times gallery, which evidently was taken about half a second later, as the crowd seems to have advanced by a single step.
I'm very suspicious, particularly of the first photo, due to the technical issues raised by the capture of the missile in flight. It's credited to Mahmud Hams, who claims to have been shot and wounded by the Israelis on May 5, according to a news search of his name.
( I thought I would see something about this on FR, but I didn't, so I'm posting it despite the peril of the dreaded duplicate thread. )
Must have been a dud.
Bookmarking-maybe this will get interesting.
Possible fauxtography placemarker
bttt
I copied it to my computer and looked at it with PhotoShop, because it seemed a bit strange that a moving missle was captured in flight without any apparent ‘blurring’ of the image.
If you look at the photo the ‘pixelation’ around the missle seems to be a bit to ‘smooth’ for an ‘inflight’ object. Not to mention that the camera used who have to have an extremely fast shutter speed to capture those two frames.
Like I said, I could be wrong. Maybe someone on here that is a little more versed in Photography than I could shed some light on this.
Considering the photographer would have been in the blast radius, I’m suspicious too.
But on the chance that it is not, I guess the Pali’s don’t like rockets being launched at them either.
who = would
“Considering the photographer would have been in the blast radius, I’m suspicious too.”
Yeah. It made me wonder too, why the photographer wouldn’t be running as fast as he could to get away from an ‘incoming’ missle.
I noticed that using MS Paint, but I looked at some pictures of my own taken with low resolution, and I see somewhat similar effects at boundaries, so I dunno.
Of course, I am suggesting that it was pasted in! But I don’t know if the pixel “halo” is evidence of this. My concerns are:
1) The missile speed. Could a shot like this really freeze an incoming missile? There seems to be no motion blur at all.
2) Is it air-launched or ground-launched? Most of the press coverage indicates an air attack, but the picture indicates a ballistic trajectory. The lack of rocket exhaust would seem to preclude an air-launch.
3) The sequence with the second picture. What did it hit? The middle ground looks empty in the first picture. Also, the timing seems suspect to me. Don’t you get an initial “ray” appearance, followed by plumes in the following seconds? Dunno.
These could be real, I guess, but I’m not convinced.
That would be hard to set up as a photo shop flax propaganda piece
That adds to the credibility of the shot.
The thing that drew my attention was if you just right click on the photo at the website and click on ‘view image’, you can see the outline of the missle in the original photo without even blowing it up.
I just magnified it for clarification.
Ooops. I made a mistake.
If you ‘download it’ and THEN view it in it’s original size in Explorer or Firefox, then you can see the outline.
“That would be hard to set up as a photo shop flax propaganda piece”
Not if the guy was ‘instructed’ to look in that direction, and then the missle Photoshopped into the correct spot in the shot.
Like I said. I don’t know for sure, but it just struck me as a little odd.
AGM-114 Hellfire missile fired from an Apache.
Got to be.
Doesn’t look the same.
The photo with the Palestinians doesn’t have a ‘round’ tip.
It’s pointed (kinda looks like an arrow head)
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