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AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« on: January 23, 2007, 10:41:54 AM »
This story on Fox news (from the AP, I think) is running this photo showing "Beruit to be ablaze"

Sorry, but something about it seems a little fishy.  There is a huge pall of smoke but no shadow other than a small sliver of shadow at the top of the ridge in the center of the screen.  From the shadows on the buildings the sun is coming from just left and behind the photographer, so there should be a blotch of shadow over the entire city from the smoke cloud.

Wouldn't be the first time, eh.

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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2007, 10:56:13 AM »
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2007, 11:07:12 AM »
I am no expert, BUT, since the smoke in the foreground is being blown to the left; is the background smoke from a different fire, is the background smoke reversing direction or is the background smoke added??
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2007, 11:12:14 AM »
I was thinking that the fires were probably real but the amount of smoke has been doctored to make it more dense/impressive/shocking.

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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2007, 12:08:43 PM »
It looks suspicious, but I'm no expert.

The smoke is really dense and even.
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2007, 12:46:35 PM »
Looks fake to me.
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2007, 02:50:07 PM »
I vote photo-chop



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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2007, 06:36:33 PM »
Oh pshaw...

That's not smoke. That's a plague of locusts.


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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2007, 07:23:44 PM »
The AP has photo-chopped images before to make political points. Why would they not do it again?
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2007, 04:38:32 AM »
Michael Totten posted some photos of Beirut burning on his blog, I think they're having an inversion... the smoke wasn't as dark but in the same area and layout.

I think it might be real.
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Re: AP Beruit photo - doctored or not?
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2007, 10:05:26 AM »
It does look very similar to the previous photoshoped picture that is on Michelle Malkin's site.
That was the first thing I thought of.

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