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StinkyJournalism Media Picks
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Photoshopping the climate change report for better impact
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| by Anthony Watts, WattsUpWithThat and Climate Audit |
September 05,2008 |
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| The draft report for Global Climate Change Impacts uses a photo to illustrate the horror of home damage for dramatic effect...the problem is it is a photoshopped stock image found at
iStockphoto. The disclosure reads: "Photo of house under several feet of graphically-rendered flood waters." |
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| Anthony Watts said, " Last week on Friday August 1st you may recall that I commented on the release of the Draft report Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States ...One of those graphics that tug at your heartstrings turns out to be a fabrication, pure and simple. Here is page 58 of the NCDC authored report "...» full story See also: Climate Audit, by Steve McIntyre. » more |
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Hold your Horses, it's Fauxtography
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| by ThisLookShopped , History in the faking |
September 04,2008 |
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| "Benito Mussolini wanted to give the appearance that he was an imposing, heroic leader," This LookShopped writes. But you can't impress if you can not control your own horse. The groom holding the horse--betraying a picture of Mussolini's prowess and control---was eventually photoshopped out. » more |
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The Power of Captions: Words Added to Pictures
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| by Austin Kleon, austinkleon.com |
September 03,2008 |
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| Many folks pointed to this picture as evidence of a Bristol Palin "baby bump". Austin Kleon points out that truth or deception can be found in the caption. No photoshop is needed to do "fauxtography." |
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| "If you read through this Daily Kos piece, the writer presents pictures" of Republican vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin "at various stages of her pregnancy looking thin and trim as 'evidence' that she wasn't really pregnant with her fifth child, but it was her daughter, Bristol, who was pregnant. The article is simply a list of photographs with captionsand the captions control how we read the photographs." » more
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| Case in point. Austin Kleon's caption asks, "Innocent glass of water and pill ?" The truth totally depends on the accuracy of words, not the image. |
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He says he's lensman to stars...But industry insiders are asking: are the photos for real?
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| by Tay Shi'an and Maureen Koh, ELECTRIC NEWS |
September 02,2008 |
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| Mr. Tan (man in blue), apparently photoshopped himself into pictures of Asian celebrities... Shi'an and Koh wrote: "These pictures were allegedly used in his portfolio to attract customers to sign up for his photography services."
Note the sharp edges of the blue jacket and the inconsistent lighting in the faces--all indicating photoshop work. |
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| "The company website, Facebook account and business card of professional photographer, Patrick Tan, feature pictures of him posing with various celebrities.
"The problem is, a number of these pictures appear to be fake, with Mr Tan's picture superimposed next to the celebrities. In one picture, his head is photoshopped onto the body of another man." » more |
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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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| 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 place?" |
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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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| "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 the connections that already exist.'" » more |
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