Fauxtography Update
by We The Free 07/03/08
"France 2, dragging its feet, eventually produced 18 minutes of film.
(There is practically no such thing as "contempt of court" in such
circumstances in the French judicial system.) The showing of this
film made for an eerie moment at the trial, when the hitherto blasé
judges sat up and started watching with more attention, then took a
recess, after which they asked for all of France 2's footage. It
would prove to be the turning point in the proceeding...
"You could see Palestinians being carried on stretchers into ambulances, then
coming out again unharmed, all in a kind of carnival atmosphere, with kids
throwing stones and making faces at the camera, despite what was
supposed to be
a tense situation. The tape showed occasional gunshots, not continuous firing.
From the general horsing around captured on film by Abu Rahmeh, Mena
concluded
that the whole scene must have been staged."
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Legal Expert Weighs in on China's Tiger-Gate
by China Journal, WSJ 07/02/08
"Today's WSJ story on the
rise of lawyers in China features Beijing lawyer Liu Xiaoyuan, who,
in addition to his busy practice, blogs regularly on legal aspects of the major stories in the news. On
Sunday, the Shaanxi provincial government released the long-awaited results of its investigation into "Tiger-Gate," officially confirming what's
been known for quite some time– that the widely publicized photos of
a rare south China tiger taken by a local farmer last autumn were, in
fact, fakes."
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Chinese investigation of shots of tiger in the wild ---not real...now consequences for "con job"
by Ma Lie and Luo Hongyan (China Daily) 07/01/08
"The 13 officials penalized for the scandal include: Zhang Shenian, provincial forestry department head - he was reprimanded; Zhu Julong and Sun Chengqian, provincial forestry department deputy heads - both were sacked;
Guan Ke, provincial media official - sacked; Wang Wanyun, a provincial official in charge of wildlife preservation - sacked; Li Qian, official with the wildlife preservation in Zhenping county - sacked. Seven others, including Zhenping county magistrate and deputy magistrate, have either been reprimanded, given demerit points or sacked...Police have found the exact spot where Zhou took the photos."
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New China Daily report confirmed Stinky Journalism's February 21,2008
analysis of the impossibility of the leaf size in comparison to the tiger. We
wrote: Notice the size, scale and proportion of what are,
objectively, small leaves in relation to the creature composited into
this environment." The China Daily reports June 30, 2008: "Police
discovered that the 'trees' near the South China tiger in Zhou's
photograph were just 0.8 cm in diameter. And calculations showed the
'tiger' would have been only 27 cm long." Image source |
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Detained: Jail for Tiger Photo Hoaxer ?
by Ian Ransom, Reuters 06/30/08
"China has sacked a number of government officials and arrested a man in connection with a set of fake photographs that local authorities had said was proof of the existence of a highly endangered tiger."
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StinkyJournalism's earlier related report
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From Stinky Journalism.org - "It's so fake: Notice the size, scale and proportion of what are, objectively, small leaves in relation to the creature composited into this environment."
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"A Chinese police officer shows off the original poster of the tiger, as the Shaanxi provincial government confirmed earlier reports that the photos of the tiger, which has not been seen in the wild for decades, were fake" Image source |
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Photoshopping the Weather
by Capital Weather Gang 06/27/08
"It turns out that weather photos are often the victim of
"photoshopping" -- the term now popularly used to describe the manipulation of photos beyond mundane tweaks in color, contrast and
the like, often for the purpose of deception. One example that has circulated widely across the Internet since 2002 is the above picture, which purports to be a triple waterspout descending from the rainbands of
Hurricane Lili as it approached Louisiana in early October 1992." » more
"The good news is, this photo is only another fake that was making the rounds on the Internet recently."
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12 Worst Photoshop Mistakes ever
by Oddee 06/26/08
The original photo obviously had second figure that was cut out. Note
the disembodied hand that remains from a botched photo-shop job. The
graphic artist hurried and forgot to remove the hand. Advertising is
not journalism, of course. However, reviewing photo tricks used in
print ads can help school our "eye" and thus, our ability to
recognized fauxtography in the news media.
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REAL OR FAKE?
from NOVA Science Now 06/25/08
"Seeing is no longer believing in our modern digital world. Powerful
photo-manipulation software is available to anyone who seeks it. And
according to digital forensics expert Hany Farid, improved forging
technologies make it more important now than ever to look at
photographs with a discerning eye. We asked Farid to scrutinize
several photographs of NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson with
different celebrities and then determine which were forgeries that we
created. ..Try your hand at differentiating doctored from untouched
photos (acknowledging, of course, that Farid likely had a lot more
technology and experience at his disposal than you do)." » more
Is Neil Tyson really standing next to Angelina Jolie? NOT. Image source
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Labour candidate in fauxtography scandal
By Whaleoil 06/24/08
"In this photo Brian Kelly and his missus (click for full size) are
at the
Howick Historical Village - "A
living Museum from the 1840 to 1880 period" so presumably going after
the Winston First vote. Except they aren't. You don't need to look
too closely to realise this is a shoddy, pathetic photoshop job. Take
a look at his leg: Interesting that he manages to be both in front of
AND behind the bloke in the rather trashy brown shirt." » more
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5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo
By Hany Farid 06/23/08
"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."
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Scientific Fauxtography Is More Common Than You Think
by MedGadget 06/13/08
"Ten to 20 of the articles accepted by The Journal of Clinical
Investigation each year show some evidence of tampering, and about
five to 10 of those papers warrant a thorough investigation, says Ms.
Neill. (The journal publishes about 300 to 350 articles per year.)" » more
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"Journals Find Fakery in Many Images Submitted to Support Research"
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Al-Durra Hoax Case: Wall Street Journal ethically reports on France2 malfeasance ..unlike the rest of MsM
by SnapShots 06/12/08
"It's hard to exaggerate the significance of Mohammed al-Durra, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy allegedly killed by Israeli bullets on
Sept. 30, 2000. The iconic image of the terrified child crouching
behind his father helped sway world opinion against the Jewish state
and fueled the last Intifada. It's equally hard, then, to exaggerate
the significance of last week's French court ruling that called the
story into doubt" » more
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Scene from France 2's footage showing Mohammed al-Dura and
his father purportedly under fire from Israeli soldiers
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Newspaper photo story is not all it seems
by Chris Cheesman 06/11/08
"Some newspapers appear to have fallen for a story in which it was
claimed a photographer narrowly escaped a 1km drop after leaping over two rocky ledges in the Grand Canyon." » more
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Did photographer defy gravity ? ...Stinky Journalism notes that the
man's entire weight is held by only one hand and one foot in a flip
flop. Yet the man's body show no stress or gesture that indicates he
is actually holding any significant weight load.
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BBC apologises over 'hoax' meerkat report
by Chris Cheesman 06/10/08
"The BBC, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph have today admitted
that picture editors nationwide were duped into reporting that meerkats were capable of taking photographs.?" » more
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ABC News.com - How to Lie with Pictures
by Datamining
" ABC News has an article today...about pollution in American cities. The article is fronted with an image of Pittsburgh (on top of the list of polluted places) in all its smoggy glory. However, the image includes the Three Rivers Stadium. This stadium was demolished early in 2001. So why post an out of date image with this story?" » more
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Photo after StinkyJournalism called ABC.com
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When journalists twisted truth
by Kodi Barth
"March 2003...The Los Angeles Times ran the top photo on its front page on March 31.
It was a composite of the two lower photos. Photographer Brian Walski was dismissed two days later...." » more
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PICTURES THAT LIE on CNET News.com
A retrospective gallery of photo tricks, manipulated images and fauxtography
"An image of Katie Couric, originally released in May by CBS,
was slimmed down for reuse..." » more
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