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August 06, 2006
Reuters Corrected Photo
Reuters earlier today killed the obviously digitally doctored photo and has replaced it with a corrected image. According to a statement issued by Reuters, they will no longer accept any photos from Adnan Hajj who has denied any wrong doing.
"The photographer has denied deliberately attempting to manipulate the image, saying that he was trying to remove dust marks and that he made mistakes due to the bad lighting conditions he was working under," said Moira Whittle, the head of public relations for Reuters."This represents a serious breach of Reuters' standards and we shall not be accepting or using pictures taken by him," Whittle said in a statement issued in London.
This is the "corrected, unaltered" picture by Hajj:
Excuse me for a moment while I ponder why Reuters is so naive. Hajj submits an altered picture which slips past editorial review and is pulled only when the obvious is pointed out to them. Reuters is then given perhaps the lamest excuse for its existence by the perpetrator. So why would Reuters accept anything from him especially a "correction" of a false image?
I'm calling bullshit on the correction. If anything, the only corrections made were to clean up some sloppy work. Therefore, I'm going to enter crazy land once more and state that Hajj's correction is still a complete fabrication based mostly on the July 26th pic by Ben Curtis.
I overlaid the two photos by making the following adjustments to the Hajj "correction":
1. Enlarged it by 3%Both adjustments were guestimations and I did not expect a perfect match. This is the result
2. Rotated it two degree counter-clockwise
Regardless of whether or not I'm right about the Hajj-Curtis amalgam, there was another strange artifact that appears in the Hajj photo but not in Curtis's suggesting that this is still not a legitimate photo.
This looks like the roof of a building (the building directly to the left and slightly below to be exact). But Hajj's photo was taken two weeks after Curtis's. Is this another example of the extraordinary construction ability of the Lebanese?
Or have I simply been staring at these photos for far too long?
Posted by Skayhan at August 6, 2006 10:59 PM
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