http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/fakephotos/ en-us Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:26 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390142/posts The cover of Nobel Laureate Al Gore's new book "Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis" was intentionally doctored to exaggerate the appearance of hurricanes in the northern hemisphere as well as reduce the amount of ice present in the Arctic. Maybe even more ominously, Florida was so diminished it's almost totally gone. As reported by Florida State University hurricane expert Ryan Maue at the website Watts Up With That, the truth was apparently inconvenient for the Global Warmingist-in-Chief (h/t NBer Blonde): The cover opens and closes half and half - so you only see one hurricane...as in... Newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390142/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:47:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384706/posts Had CNN spliced footage of a sparsely-attended Capitol Hill rally to discredit the reports of large numbers of attendees to the 9/12 rally in September, conservatives would have rightly howled about media bias. What will conservatives say about Fox News splicing footage of the 9/12 rally into coverage of Michele Bachmann’s otherwise well-attended rally last week? Jon Stewart gives Fox News a well-deserved poke in the eye for fudging the footage, as well as exposing rather clearly its source: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2384706/posts#comment Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:42:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374007/posts Back when Norman Rockwell ruled Saturday evenings, Adobe wasn't even a gleam in some nerd's eye, but a new book shows that the painter was, nevertheless, a photoshop god. Very few Gizmodo readers were even born when Rockwell painted his last Saturday Evening Post cover, but we all know them. You hear that name and suddenly you can picture those overly detailed, cartoonishly dramatic but ultimately kinda corny depictions of American life. Well, Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera, written and compiled by Ron Schick, has given me immense newfound respect for the man, for the meticulous photography, the real people... gizmodo.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2374007/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:34:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363124/posts Civil War Generals, c. 1865 Generally regarded as the world's first commercially successful photojournalist, Matthew Brady was also one of the medium's most accomplished manipulators. In this group portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman and his top officers, he added one figure. For the record, the men are, standing, from left: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis and Joseph Anthony Mower; seated, from left: John Alexander Logan, Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum and Francis P. Blair. The Original Image: Brady added Blair at the far right. One of Sherman's corps commanders in the critical final offensive in Georgia, Blair... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2363124/posts#comment Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:18:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358951/posts An Article Published in the October/09/ 2009 by newspaper DanTri in Hanoi indicated police arrested two suspects as they committed assault other people are journalist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy and her Husband . http://dantri.com.vn/c20/s20-355166/tran-khai-thanh-thuy-bi-bat-ve-toi-co-y-gay-thuong-tich.htm The photo which shown an injured man Nguyen Manh Diep in the hospital (Anh Nguyá»…n Mạnh Điệp bị đánh vỡ đầu) actually a fake photo . The photo was taken in 2005 and later photoshop the date imprinted on the photo to Oct/09/2009 In order to make it looks genuinely as the recent date . The said photo above could be opened by using wordpad to... Self http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2358951/posts#comment Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:13:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325056/posts LOS ANGELES: Software giant Microsoft Corp is apologising for altering a photo on its website to change the race of one of the people shown in t he picture. A photo on the Seattle-based company's US website shows two men, one Asian and one black, and a white woman seated at a conference room table. India Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325056/posts#comment Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288815/posts The New York Times has removed photos from its website that appear to have been digitally altered. From Fishbowl NY Editor & Publisher noticed that the New York Times had taken down a slideshow of photos by Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins that had appeared in this Sunday's magazine depicting abandoned house construction projects in the wake of the financial crisis. Now, instead of the gallery online, there is a short statement from the paper: "The pictures in this feature were removed after questions were raised about whether they had been digitally altered." It's unclear who made the original allegations of... Accuracy In Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2288815/posts#comment Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:31:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277651/posts The smiling, ethnically diverse family featured on the cover of Toronto's latest edition of its summer Fun Guide was digitally altered to make the photo more "inclusive," which city officials say is in keeping with a policy to reflect diversity. A spokesman for the department that publishes the guide listing recreation activities confirmed the publication was doctored to insert the face of a different father. "He superimposed the African-Canadian person onto the family cluster in the original photo. It was two photographs and one head was superimposed over the original family photo," said John Gosgnach, communications director for the... National Post- Canada http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2277651/posts#comment Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:16:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259875/posts At least one picture shows an American soldier apparently raping a female prisoner while another is said to show a male translator raping a male detainee. Further photographs are said to depict sexual assaults on prisoners with objects including a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube. Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2259875/posts#comment Thu, 28 May 2009 15:29:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250534/posts Highlights - The site, thedirty.com, now claims they have a sex tape of Carrie Prejean. - However, the site’s owner has a history of making false claims and profiting from the publicity and reaction his allegations generate. - The most popular case was Kobe Bryant and Laker Girl Vanessa Curry. - No photographic evidence of a Bryant and Curry affair emerged; despite weeks of claims he would soon publish pictures. Read full report: http://www.butasforme.com/2009/05/13/fraud-thedirtycom-says-video-of-prejean-coming-but-the-site-has-a-history-of-hyping-slanderous-material-that-never-materialized/ http://www.butasforme.com/2009/05/13/fraud-thedirtycom-says-video-of-prejean-coming-but-the-site-has http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2250534/posts#comment Thu, 14 May 2009 03:41:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134129/posts Recently a 'Community activist' (AKA Pain in the A**) in the city of Boston named Sadiki Cambone, brought a set of pictures purporting to be of our service men raping Iraqi women to the Boston City Council. Much like John Kerry this Sadiki Cambone throws aroundhis service in the militaryto prove his alleged patriotism, all the while undermining our troops at every opportunity. The Boston Glob(e) published these pictures as being genuine without bothering to verify them.As it turns out the pictures actually come from a fetish porn site of men in camouflage having sex with porn actress. On todays... Boston Globe,WRKO Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1134129/posts#comment Wed, 12 May 2004 15:46:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127034/posts The mind reels at how news organizations might employ this technology in the future. Will we see holograms of reporters standing outside in hurricanes? TIME http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127034/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:08:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076419/posts Anger at fake Sarah Palin photos as smear campaign makes her 'look like a stripper' Last updated at 23:52pm on 06.09.08   Skirting the issues: Clearly mocked-up photos like this are being used to undermine Sarah Palin's image as a serious politician Sarah Palin's credibility as a possible American Vice-President is being undermined by a series of spoof photographs circulated on the internet.The saucy pictures, which exploit her glamorous image, have been published amid a concerted ‘dirty tricks’ campaign against the former beauty queen, following her surprise appointment as 72-year-old Republican candidate John McCain’s running mate. One shows her apparently... The Evening Standard (U.K.) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076419/posts#comment Sun, 7 Sep 2008 01:49:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043458/posts As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites. NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043458/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043210/posts At least one of the photographs released today by Iran and published by an unquestioning Western media has been Photoshopped: Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2043210/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:44:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026185/posts Features - June 2, 2008 Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo By Hany Farid This story is a supplement to the feature "Digital Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images" which was printed in the June 2008 issue of Scientific American. Lighting Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye. For an image such as the one at the right, my group can estimate the direction of the light source for... Scientific America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2026185/posts#comment Thu, 5 Jun 2008 00:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005897/posts The story is about climate change, and when I saw the accompanying photo of a fish lying at the bottom of a dried lake, I immediately screamed fake. Take a look, there's no way the buzzards or other predators wouldn't have picked it clean in the time it took for the lake to evaporate. Telegraph UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2005897/posts#comment Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:59:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826061/posts Hizbullah won the Second Lebanon War by achieving a propaganda victory over Israel, a Harvard University study has concluded. Aided and abetted by a compliant and credulous press, Hizbullah achieved victory by convincing the world that Israel was the aggressor and that Israel's retaliatory offensive was a "disproportionate" response to the kidnapping and killing of its soldiers. Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1826061/posts#comment Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:52:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824239/posts While the war between Israel and Hezbollah raged in Lebanon and Israel last summer, it became clear that media coverage had itself started to play an important role in determining the ultimate outcome of that war. It seemed clear that news coverage would affect the course of the conflict. And it quickly transpired that Hezbollah would become the beneficiary of the media's manipulation. A close examination of the media's role during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon comes now from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, in an analysis of the war published in a paper whose subtitle should give... World Politics Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1824239/posts#comment Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814629/posts Paper Photog Quits Over Altered Picture Monday April 9, 2007 11:01 PM By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Writer TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - A staff photographer for The Blade who digitally altered a front-page photo has resigned, the newspaper said Monday. Allan Detrich had told Blade editors that he altered a photo of a college baseball team for his personal files and mistakenly sent it to the newspaper. The photo showed Bluffton University players kneeling March 30 at their first game after a bus crash killed five players in Atlanta. Photos of the team in other Ohio newspapers showed the legs... The Guardian (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1814629/posts#comment Mon, 9 Apr 2007 22:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813237/posts For a hearty lunchtime chuckle: Check out my interview with Ron Ott of Coptix, one of the masterminds behind the April Fools' joke that caused a Rove Derangement Syndrome feeding frenzy. michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1813237/posts#comment Fri, 6 Apr 2007 19:09:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806605/posts A fawning mainstream media Where Eagles dare, pacifists doctor and dupe By Judi McLeod Sunday, March 25, 2007 My friend Jackie Gordon, who exposes anti-war ANSWER for their lies on the Internet, wants to know about pictures posted on their website that appear to be doctored.As we all know by now, the ragtag, loose knit and lovable vets called The Gathering of Eagles changed history in Washington D.C. on March 17. Traveling in great numbers from far distances, they outnumbered ANSWER three to one--but a fawning mainstream media failed to report the facts, as usual taking the side of ANSWER.... Canada Free Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806605/posts#comment Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:13:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806246/posts Does this photo appear to be doctored to you? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806246/posts#comment Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:46:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787380/posts The Los Angeles Times gives credence to Iran’s bogus claim that the US is behind two recent attacks in Iran: Iran alleges U.S. link to militant attack. TEHRAN — Bullet cartridges bearing a U.S. insignia and English lettering were among the weaponry seized last week from Sunni militants suspected of killing 11 members of Shiite-dominated Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, Iranian officials said Sunday. A photo of the cartridge box, along with an array of other ammunition, was published by Iranian newspapers and news agencies. Iran did not provide access to the weapons and explosives, drawing skepticism from analysts, and there... LGF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1787380/posts#comment Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:14:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778187/posts I think it's photoshopped. Daily Mail http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1778187/posts#comment Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:53:41 GMT