tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post2029934955251730611..comments2024-03-29T08:01:26.952-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Lies, damned lies, photographs, and the truthPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-70796424867996112932017-08-29T14:53:07.893-05:002017-08-29T14:53:07.893-05:00The person with the flaming spray can has been id,...The person with the flaming spray can has been id, the person who took a shot at the person with the flaming spray can after he lit it off has been arrested.<br /><br />https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/08/29/arrests-made-gun-firing-beating-counter-protester-charlottesville/nonohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10946012129539132762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-17790087537635126362017-08-29T08:25:15.607-05:002017-08-29T08:25:15.607-05:00Sigh...I guess everybody here is more interested i...Sigh...I guess everybody here is more interested in the technical details of photoshopping than the significance of what it causes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-83795515746783782472017-08-29T01:44:35.240-05:002017-08-29T01:44:35.240-05:00The level of computing power and the software used...The level of computing power and the software used for photo and video editing has reached the point where NOTHING YOU SEE in any image from any source anywhere on TV or the internet can be counted on to be real. It's just that simple. Given just a few minutes and access to the RAW image data allows a talented editor on a high end machine the opportunity to make ANY image tell whatever story they wish. And this has nothing to do with left vs right.....BOTH sides have access to the same powers and thus both sides will be using said techniques for propaganda. The VR world is rapidly overtaking reality. If you didn't see it yourself you can't count on it being true. And as image projection techniques improve it won't be long before you won't even be able to count on what you see with your own eyes to be true.Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-61921343508704221842017-08-28T16:09:01.041-05:002017-08-28T16:09:01.041-05:00In the second picture, look at the guy holding the...In the second picture, look at the guy holding the can. He's using his right arm but the thumb is on the wrong side of his hand.<br /><br />Compare the can in the first picture with the can in the second. Perspective is everything. Because the guy holding the can in the first picture is closer to the camera, the can looks larger but still only extends to the man's wrist. In the second picture it extends almost to the elbow of the man holding the can.<br /><br />Depending on your skill level in Photoshop, this hamfisted manipulation could be done fairly quickly.<br />Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-84809164790381656002017-08-28T14:08:28.982-05:002017-08-28T14:08:28.982-05:001. The hand is wrong. 2. The arm position is stran...1. The hand is wrong. 2. The arm position is strange for the rest of the posture. 3. The "spray can" is too large. I have not seen any spray can of that size. 4. lack of label on can. 5. The "can holder" is a lot crisper than the other figures around him, as if he's been touched up.<br /><br />I'm not an image-manipulation specialist. However, I remember back when {blog that can't be named} exposed Reuters for doctoring photos, or accepting badly doctored photos, from pro-Palestinian activists, and learning as several bloggers walked us readers step by step through what had been done and how (over-use of the Clone tool was one. Iran's FARS media loves the Clone tool.) And I used to haunt the Photoshop Disasters web-page, and learned a lot there. <br /><br />LittleRed1Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-44604680902084772822017-08-28T14:03:21.344-05:002017-08-28T14:03:21.344-05:00I wonder how many people are missing the point wit...I wonder how many people are missing the point with an article like this.<br /><br />The audience just wants the crap to stop so they can get back to thier sitcom.<br /><br />The right argues to the audience that they should support him because of fact a,b,c and d.<br /><br />The left doesnt argue that the audience should support him because of facts. Rather they cause the audience to not believe any information, factual or not. Since the audience doesnt really care about facts (they just want it stopped) the left wins by defualt because the rights arguements have been rendered ineffectual.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68391323631676764962017-08-28T12:48:49.179-05:002017-08-28T12:48:49.179-05:00Something like this is a piece of cake in Photosho...Something like this is a piece of cake in Photoshop. Takes maybe five minutes.Bob Mnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64066603810286097942017-08-28T12:34:19.346-05:002017-08-28T12:34:19.346-05:00I largely avoid the mainstream media because of st...I largely avoid the mainstream media because of stuff like this. It's like being trolled by children. STUPID children.<br /><br />I don't worry about free speech and neither should you! The fact is I can read the most biased liberal rag sheet - like the New York Times, for example - and spot the lies. I can read between the lines. I can tell the way of it from what they DON'T say. Those leftist arse hats couldn't tell a decent fib if their lives depended on it.<br /><br />Hmmmm. A fat old white guy? Trying to set a big black negro on fire with a spray bomb set alight? <br /><br />Right.<br /><br />In the real world if that fella wanted the black man dead he would have shot him and have been done with it. In the real world, blacks attack whites and other blacks like that, and that is because they are genetically prone to inferior intellect and violence. I'm sorry, I don't like it either, but there's no nice way to say it.<br /><br />Were it up to me I would make street protest illegal because it doesn't accomplish anything except give stupid people a place to brawl.Glen Filthiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03256741311142364722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-87798560820665399552017-08-28T11:49:04.212-05:002017-08-28T11:49:04.212-05:00Sci Fi book, Eclipse by John Shirley, part of the ...Sci Fi book, Eclipse by John Shirley, part of the cyberpunk era. Manipulated Video was used as evidence by White Sepremacist US government, the resistance created a program to show manipulation.<br /><br />Interesting how I see the book now, verses then. Now I see any book or movie with the idea of White Supremacists taking power in the US as propaganda / messge fiction / biased / politically correct.Ray - SoCalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293232996007277071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86765566423429559722017-08-28T11:07:35.052-05:002017-08-28T11:07:35.052-05:00Interesting to note, on the photoshopped image, th...Interesting to note, on the photoshopped image, the hand holding the spray can has its thumb on the wrong side of the can. Also note the color is not the same as his arm.Rogernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23906721087850059472017-08-28T10:42:00.019-05:002017-08-28T10:42:00.019-05:00Yep, it HAS gotten to the point that you can't...Yep, it HAS gotten to the point that you can't trust ANY pictures or video... sighOld NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40433011617431719442017-08-28T10:18:48.450-05:002017-08-28T10:18:48.450-05:00I'd like to see how that could really be done ...I'd like to see how that could really be done in Photoshop. <br /><br />No, I'm not doubting you or the refutation on Reddit. <br /><br />Where I'm coming from is as a photographer. I started playing with cameras in the 1960s, and got a 35mm SLR as soon as I had an income in the mid-70s. I used to have Photoshop but as an old guy (= old school), I try to take pictures that need as little screwing with as possible. Consequently, I crop a bit, use level stretching regularly, and maybe go as exotic as unsharp masking. <br /><br />I have no idea how to do something like that in any photo editor. For 30 years, or more, I've been reading "the day is coming where pictures are not going to be admissible as evidence" and "you'll never be able to trust video you're shown". I'd like to know how it's done. <br /><br />When I look at the "evidence" the one guy posted that showed it was completely edited, how do I know <i>that</i> isn't the fakery? If I know nothing (check), how do I know all his red lines on the picture reflect something that was done to fake it and not something he did? <br /><br />It seems like I have to know the picture is a fake to know the picture is a fake, and that doesn't work. <br /><br />SiGraybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00280583031339062059noreply@blogger.com