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No, you're missing the point of the article. According to the article the photographer didn't capture the scene. It says he took the people standing with their
by maaaats 13y ago
No, you're missing the point of the article. According to the article the photographer didn't capture the scene. It says he took the people standing with their dead children from a photo and pasted them into a crowded street. E.g. merging pictures. A bit more dramatic than playing with lighting etc.
- streptomycin 13y agoNo, that's not what the article says. It says the image was probably based on more than one picture merged together, but it doesn't claim the specific things you say it does.
- namdnay 13y agoThe HDR effect usually implies taking the same photo several times with different lighting and merging them all together. I wonder if this is the manipulation he's detecting, or if there's more as the parent suggests
- coldtea 13y agoNot necessarily, you can get the HDR with most image editors from a single image nowadays. E.g: http://digital-photography-school.com/correcting-and-creating-hdr-images-in-lightroom http://digital-photography-school.com/correcting-and-creatin... http://www.topazlabs.com/adjust/ http://www.topazlabs.com/adjust/
- mistercow 13y agoYou also don't need ELA to see that. Just by looking at the sharp edges of the hair on the guy at the front and to the right, you can clearly see that this has been composited together.
- coldtea 13y agoI don't see any obvious such thing (at least on that part) and I've been doing Photoshop work for 10+ years. Things to keep in mind: 1) Error Level Analysis is extremely unreliable. Especially if an image has had several saves and editing passes (and given that he did it on a small jpg, not the full image). 2) Sharp edges can also come from the sharpen tool, which can be manually applied selectively on different areas (instead of in the whole image). 3) Lighting changing and artifacts can also some from sloppy dodging and burning work. Both artifacts introduced by (2) and (3) also show up on ELA. 4) The time metadata he mentions in the article is useless. For one, the camera time could be totally wrong depending on the timezone settings. When I did some photo work, I always forgot to set mine when changing timezones frequently.
- mistercow 13y agoWait, are you actually arguing that it's an authentic photograph?
- coldtea 13y agoWhy, are you arguing against it? This is an authentic photograph, there are no two ways about it. The only alterations are light (dodging burning) and color. As far as the subject matter, place of scene, people etc, it's all genuine.