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Journal asv108's Journal: NYTIMES Cover Image Photoshop? 8

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So tonight I'm doing one of my routine checks of the nytimes website when a picture from an article about Iraq catches my eye.

the article

the picture

backup of the pic and a screenshot of the article

I don't claim to be a photography expert but does that look like it was altered? Notice the order of the people on the truck along with the 2 people on the ground on the bottom left.

Last year, the Latimes fired a photographer for altering a photo.

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  • The two people not on the truck could be standing on another truck, but the people standing on the back of the truck seem to be out of perspective. Like they would be midgets or that is one HUGE truck.
    • ...or the photographer could just be kneeling. ;)

      Actually, the guy in the white shirt (bottom, far left) has his hand on what appears to be the spare tire lying on the roof of the truck in whose bed he's probably riding. Man, my 8th Grade English teacher will be proud of THAT sentence. This truck is probably around 10-15 feet to the right of the semi.

      I enlarged the photo around that guy's arm; it's just angled back away from the camera, and his hand is positioned in a way that would have the pistol po

      • My biggest issue with the the photograph is that there is that the perspective and focus is wrong. The perspective of the people on the left hand side is completely wrong and so is the focus.
        • I guess I just don't understand what you're seeing. They all seem (to me) to have the same perpendicular stance (either the photograph perspective isn't quite level or they're all leaning slightly forward due to the vehicles they're riding). And what little I know of photography tells me that you can have as wide or narrow a depth of field (range of focus) as you like, depending on your aperture. But the guys in front only seem to be slightly more in-focus than the mob on the semi.

          sorry, I'm not trying

      • Damit. Senile at 33...

        It took me longer to plug these images into dreamweaver than to alter the image, and it still would attract less attention than the photo that's there. If they *were* going to alter the original, someone with a better editing app than PSP6 could spend 30 minutes doing a very nice job. Much nicer than this. [meandsomefriends.org]

        Yes, I should be working, and yes, I'm really trying to get back to it. Yes, I'm pathetic.

  • The one hand looks photo shopped out. There's a guy like pointing to the sky and his hand and anything he is holding has just been photoshopped white. Almost in a gun shape.

    One time when I worked for $ompany I was making a website for our facility and I contacted the art department for an arial photo of the facility. They obliged and while I was working on the photo (scanning, adjusting resolution) I noticed an odd white orb on the roof. I contacted them (made a slight The Prisoner reference that was e
  • Here are a few interesting links you might want to check out that discuss the images newspapers run and the recent tragedies in Madrid and Iraq:

    Madrid [newsdesigner.com]
    Fallujah [newsdesigner.com]
    Editing Truth [poynter.org]

    • Yes, quite interesting. It's hard to know where to stand on that.

      Either way, the stories that inspired this make me want to wax fetal... /me is stunned. I'll be under my desk if anyone needs me.

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