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Iran: You Suck At Photoshop.

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:11:57 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: Here's the caption on the NYT illustration above:
In the four-missile version of the image released Wednesday by Sepah News, the media arm of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, two major sections (encircled in red) appear to closely replicate other sections (encircled in orange).

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Or perhaps the headline of this post should read, "American media: you suck at fact-checking."

Iran's state-run media agency has been accused before of having digitally manipulated images released to foreign media. This week, as word spread of purported missile tests in Iran, the validity of an image of four missiles shooting into the sky turned out to be photoshopped -- but not before a bunch of big news organizations printed it as legit.

Agence France-Presse said that it obtained the image from the Web site of Sepah News, the media arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, on Wednesday. But there was no sign of it there later in the day. Today, The Associated Press distributed what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile.

This morning, Agence France-Presse retracted the image as “apparently digitally altered.”

Tags: photoshop, photography, photo manipulation

Top 10 Wired Water Photos

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:58:23 GMT

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Amazon Worker

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Water Feet

"A kid takes a dive on Ipanema Beach, Rio de Janeiro"

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Floating in Color

"On Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia."

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"BMW reflected in a puddle in Amsterdam, shot with my Sony Ericsson S700i mobile-phone cam."

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"View of St. Sebastian's Church in Salzburg, Austria. Taken on a Nikon pocket point-and-click."

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"Take that for showing all those horrible infomercials!"

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"Skogarfoss, a 60-meter-high [nearly 200-foot] waterfall in southern Iceland. Legend tells that behind the waterfall is a treasure chest filled with unimaginable riches. The story goes that a man ventured behind the falls and grasped the handle on the chest, only for it to vanish in front of his very eyes."

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"Built in 1902, and still smooth."

Tags: photography, water

Photo Tampering Throughout History

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:58:48 GMT

clipped by: Mohir
clipper's remarks: see rest of photos in original page,
linked to my previous post:
Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo
http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/D516F80D-C71B-4B53-BB9C-77EA80B8C919/

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Photography lost its innocence not long after it was born. As early as the 1860s photos were already being manipulated—only a few decades after Joseph Nicéphore Niépce created the first photograph in 1826. With the advent of high-resolution digital cameras, powerful personal computers and sophisticated photo-editing software, the manipulation of digital images has proliferated. Here, I have collected some examples of tampering throughout photography's over 180-year history.

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Circa 1860:
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the body of Southern politician, John Calhoun. Putting the date of this photo into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1884.

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Circa 1865:

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Soviet premier, Joseph Stalin, routinely airbrushed his enemies out of images.

Tags: photography, fake, history

Digital Forensics: 5 Ways to Spot a Fake Photo

Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:05:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: the 4 other ways in the website

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Composite images made of pieces from different photographs can display subtle differences in the lighting conditions under which each person or object was originally photographed. Such discrepancies will often go unnoticed by the naked eye.

For an image such as the one at the right, my group can estimate the direction of the light source for each person or object (arrows). Our method relies on the simple fact that the amount of light striking a surface depends on the relative orientation of the surface to the light source. A sphere, for example, is lit the most on the side facing the light and the least on the opposite side, with gradations of shading across its surface according to the angle between the surface and the direction to the light at each point.

For the image above, the light-source direction for the police does not match that for the ducks (arrows). We would have to analyze other items to be sure it was the ducks that were added.

Tags: photography, fake, forensics

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:31:53 GMT

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Clip Source: antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov

Explanation: Each day on planet Earth can have a dramatic ending as the Sun sets below the colorful western horizon. Often inspiring, or offering a moment for contemplation, a sunset is perhaps the single most photographed celestial event. Did you recognize this as a picture of one? The image actually is a single exposure of the setting Sun recorded near Wasserberg, Germany on May 11. To create the uncommon sunset view the photographer used a digital camera and a zoom lens (a lens with an adjustable focal length). During the 1/6 second long exposure he smoothly changed the focal length while simultaneously rotating the camera, altering the image scale and orientation. The result transforms an objective depiction of nature into an artistic abstraction.

Tags: sun, sunset, earth, photography

Nude Bruni photo sells for $91,000 in auction

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:24:48 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A nude photo of French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, standing in a pigeon-toed pose and covering her modesty with her hands, was sold on Thursday in New York for $91,000, more than 20 times its expected price.

A buyer for a Chinese art collector bought the black-and-white image, taken by photographer Michel Comte in 1993 during her modeling days, Christie's auction house said.

The sale of the photo has attracted attention since Bruni married French President Nicolas Sarkozy in February.

The photo had been expected to fetch between $3,000 and $4,000. It was auctioned as part of a sale of 140 photos from German collector Gert Elfering, which also features work by Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton and Peter Beard.

Tags: carla bruni, photography, auction

Scientists Scan Striking Nanoscale Images

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:36:13 GMT

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Clip Source: www.wired.com

For the first time, late last year, a team of British scientists filmed the nanoscale interaction of an attacking virus with an enzyme and a DNA strand in real time.

This image captured in German labs by Thorsten Dziomba, shows GeSi quantum dots -- a mere 15 nanometers high and 70 nanometers in diameter.

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This E. coli bacterium displays well-preserved flagella that are just 30 nanometers long.

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The leaves of several plants, including the lotus plant, show self-cleaning properties.

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This image of cyanobacteria (more commonly known as blue-green algae) was taken as part of a series of experiments designed to help scientists understand how the structure of the algae's cell walls helps it move.

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The bright halo is created by charges emitted from the nanotube cap, while the discharged nanotube appears dark.

Tags: nanotechnology, photography

UNICEF photo of the year

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:57:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.boingboing.net

UNICEF photo of the year

Stephanie Sinclair won the UNICEF photo of the year for her haunting picture of a 40-year-man and his 11-year-old bride in Afghanistan.

He’s forty, she’s eleven. And they are a couple – the Afghan man Mohammed F.* and the child Ghulam H.*. “We needed the money”, Ghulam’s parents said. Faiz claims he is going to send her to school. But the women of Damarda village in Afghanistan’s Ghor province know better: “Our men don’t want educated women.” They predict that Ghulam will be married within a few weeks after her engagement in 2006, so as to bear children for Faiz.
During her stay in Afghanistan, it consistently struck American photographer Stephanie Sinclair how many young girls are married to much older men. She decided to raise awareness about this topic with her pictures. Particularly as the official minimum age for brides in Afghanistan is sixteen and it is therefore illegal to marry children.

Tags: photography

An innovative manager for your photo collection

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:28:15 GMT

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Clip Source: www.insidetonic.com

An innovative manager for your photo collection

Photology is a revolutionary photo manager that enables you to browse your collection with innovative search filters. You can, for example, look for photos with certain colors or them, or about a given topic such as a beach, a close-up or a sunset. Photos can also be used as wallpapers and share by web directly from Photology in a very easy way.

Tags: software, photography

Camera sensor may eliminate flash

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:56:22 GMT

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Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Kodak says camera sensor may eliminate flash

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co. (EK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Thursday it has developed digital camera technology that nearly eliminates the need for flash photography, part of the company's effort to make money from its deep patent portfolio.

The world's biggest maker of photographic film says its proprietary sensor technology significantly increases sensitivity to light. Image sensors act as a digital camera's eyes by converting light into an electric charge to begin the capture process.

Kodak, which is in the last year of a lengthy and expensive transformation into a digital photography company as its film business shrinks, intends to lean on its wealth of intellectual property to boost its bottom line, expecting up to $250 million this year alone in royalties and related revenues.

Tags: digital photography, photography

Smithsonian Magazine - Photo contest

Mon, 21 May 2007 10:53:38 GMT

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Tags: photography, nature

Revealing Photographs of DNA

Thu, 10 May 2007 14:19:09 GMT

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Clip Source: www.physorg.com

Revealing Photographs of DNA

Ultrasensitive genetic detection methods could revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of diseases. However, all the techniques until now have been far too technically demanding for broad application. Munich researchers led by Thomas Carell have now developed a very simple method based on the intensification process used in black-and-white photography. As reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie, this method should in principle be able to detect DNA at attomole (10–18 mol) levels.

In black-and-white photography, light is absorbed by silver bromide crystals in a light-sensitive layer. This forms little heaps of silver atoms. In the subsequent development process, these atoms then catalyze the reduction of the silver ions of the entire crystal to elemental silver, which turns the photographic paper black in the areas exposed to light. In principle, this process can reach an intensification factor up to a hundred billion (10¹¹).

Tags: dna, photography

Thousands strip for photo shoot

Mon, 07 May 2007 15:59:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A great artist, worthwhile to look up his work

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Thousands strip for photo shoot

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A record 18,000 people took off their clothes to pose for U.S. photographic artist Spencer Tunick Sunday in Mexico City's Zocalo square, the heart of the ancient Aztec empire.

Tunick, who has raised eyebrows by staging mass nude photo shoots in cities from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Caracas, smashed his previous record of 7,000 volunteers set in 2003 in Barcelona, Spain.

Directing with a megaphone, Tunick shot a series of pictures with his Mexican models simultaneously raising their arms, then lying on their backs in the square as well as another scene on a side street with volunteers arranged in the shape of an arrow.

Hundreds of police kept nosy onlookers away during the nippy early-morning shoot, and a no-fly zone was declared above the plaza.

Tags: photography, nude, spencer tunick

Time makes Reagan cry with Photoshop

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:03:30 GMT

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Time makes Reagan cry with Photoshop

"The first new-look issue, on newsstands tomorrow, features what appears to be a photo of Ronald Reagan with a fat tear sliding down his cheek, illustrating the cover story, "How the Right Went Wrong." A somewhat cryptic credit in small type on the (revamped!) table of contents describes the image this way: "Photograph by David Hume Kennerly. Tear by Tim O'Brien." Nowhere does it specifically state that the cover is a photo illustration—in other words, that it's Photoshopped."

Tags: photoshop, photography, politics, deception, conspiracy, newspapers

Microsoft Photo Info tool

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:59:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To see all features check out the page

Clip Source: www.dpreview.com

Microsoft Photo Info tool

Microsoft has today released a new 'Photo Info' tool designed specifically for digital photographers. After installation this tool provides a new option of 'Photo Info' on the Explorer context menu. The Photo Info dialog enables you to edit both EXIF and IPTC information in compatible image formats as either a single image or a collection. The Photo Info tool works on either Windows XP or Vista and is a free download.

Microsoft Photo Info is a new software add-in for Microsoft Windows that allows photographers to add, change and delete common "metadata" properties for digital photographs from inside Windows Explorer. It also provides enhanced "hover tips" and additional sort properties for digital photographs in Explorer (in Details view).

Tags: digital photograpphy, photography, microsoft