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Move Over Balloon Boy, Remember Monster Pig Hoax? : Forced Perspective Photo Tricks on Flickr
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 23, 2009 08:21 am EST
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| STINKYJOURNALISM EXCLUSIVE: This new image is based on a scientific analysis done for StinkyJournalism by retired New York University physicist Dr. Richard Brandt. Brandt's analysis of the perspective geometry in the photo shows that the boy only appears to be directly behind the pig. He was actually about 5.5 feet further away, cuing the optical illusion that the boy is smaller than he is and the pig is huge in the foreground. This image illustrates how the forced perspective technique was used to create the infamous Monster Pig photo. See our Photo Gallery below that shows a collection of forced perspective trick photos from Flickr. (Credit: Robert Slawinski, StinkyJournalism) |
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Before the Colorado "Balloon Boy" hoax, there was the "Monster Pig" publicity stunt, which much like "Balloon Boy" involved the exploitation of a young boy and generated press attention around the world.
The 2007 photo distributed by the Associated Press (AP) featured an 11-year-old Alabama boy hunter holding a large handgun from behind--what only appeared to be--a wild 1051-pound beast. The image turned out to be fake, created...Go to full story
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Media Fails to Fact Check Skewed Stats in Palestinian Conflict Death Toll
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| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.com |
April 07, 2009
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| Gaza image published by CNN to illustrate their story that uses dubious stats. |
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It's bad enough when TMZ and other seedy celebrity rags use "unnamed sources," but when the mainstream media incorporates them regularly as primary sources for war reporting it's clear the public has lost the battle for good journalism.
National Review Online's Stephanie Gutmann penned a recent article exploring the credibility of statistics that have poured in from the Middle East. Gutmann points out that an AP article listed the Palestine death toll as 900...Go to full story
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Is Yelp Guilty of Removing Bad Reviews for Advertisers?
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| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.com |
March 31, 2009
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| Yelp with "Real People, Real Reviews" may have lost the public trust by leverging their ability to manipulate content to generate ad revenues |
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Although business review Web site Yelp may seem like a grassroots exchange of helpful information about businesses between Internet users, allegations of a manipulative system of cash in exchange for removing bad reviews is leading some to cry extortion.
According to an exposé by the East Bay Express News, business owners have complained of receiving unsolicited calls from Yelp offering to place bad reviews in less prominent positions or remove...Go to full story
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Look Mom, No Photoshop !
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| Fun fauxtography tricks you can try at home... Just don't hoax the media |
| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
November 17, 2008
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| Who needs Photoshop? The optical illusion, called "forced perspective," fools the eye and brain into wrongly interpreting objects that are large and far away, as small and near. After a glance, one quickly recognizes that the spray of water that appears to be shooting out of the soda can is actually a water fountain in the distance that was aligned just right by the photographer. |
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Who knew that optical illusions can be so diverse in the application of the principle called, "forced perspective?" Click here or right on the photograph to go to the 12 images in the Stinky Journalism album that were collected from the Internet by Polish bloggers.
The album includes many clever variations of the theme that exploits the ambiguity of size cues in a two-dimensional image. An ant walking around the edge of the drinking cup is...Go to full story
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Tricky Photograph: "mountain" is sand castle; person "on" mountain stands 30 yards away
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| by Alexander Cooney's Movieland, Blarbus.com |
September 11, 2008
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| "It's a technique called "forced perspective" which is used to make
objects appear larger or smaller than their actual
size...(distorting) the apparent distances between relative objects." |
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"At first glance, this picture may not seem very special. Obviously, somebody is standing on a rocky ledge overlooking a pristine lake, right? ...In reality, the rocky ledge this person appears to be standing on is actually a sand mountain built by my uncle... you might say, 'then surely you must have found a gnome to pose for the picture?' No, that's my sister. She's just standing on the dock about thirty yards away." » more
This same forced perspective trick... Go to full story
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Why Do We Trust Photography?
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| by Paul Barsch, mpdailyfix.com |
August 29, 2008
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| "Jeff is giant! Dad is tiny!" No Photoshop is needed. It's a staged optical illusion called "forced perspective" shown on Flickr by no3rdw. |
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Paul Barsch asks, "Every photograph is in essence altered reality to some degree (accounting for time, place and how the photo was framed by the photographer). Why then do we trust photographs in the first
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"The expression, 'a picture is worth 1,000 words,' is often attributed to either Napoleon Bonaparte, or Russian writer Ivan Turgenev. This saying is meant to convey the power and impact of a single image in replacing pages of text..."
"Jack Trout, in the marketing classic, 'Positioning: The Battle for the Mind ' mentions that the approach of positioning is to not, 'create something new and different, but to manipulate what's already…in the mind, or retie...Go to full story
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