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Saturday, August 12, 2006

I just don't get it


Reuters on Sunday withdrew an image of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut on August 5, 2006 after evidence emerged that it had been manipulated to show more smoke . . . . Reuters has told the photographer, freelance Adnan Hajj, that the agency will not use any more of his pictures - Reuters
What I don't understand is how any photographer could expect any photo editor to overlook such a clumsy use of the Photoshop "clone tool." Of course, the photo editor apparently did just that.

But you don't need a side-by-side view or a knowledge of Photoshop to see the completely unnatural regular pattern in both large smoke clouds. The clone tool puts a copy of one area of an image in place of some other area. With it, you can do things like remove a light switch from a wall by "painting" it over with more wall. But if you select a non-uniform area as your source for the cloning (for example, if you select a circle containing part of a smoke cloud and part of the lighter sky behind it), you can wind up with an obviously repeating pattern as seen here.

Why anyone would ever try to fob this off as an undoctored photo is beyond me. Also beyond me is why Reuters would not reduce its chances of being burned again in the future by dismissing the obviously incompetent photo editor who accepted this photo as genuine when a child could the doctoring at a glance.


posted at 12:39 AM

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