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Trudy W. Schuett

This thing is so obviously Photoshopped I can't believe anyone would consider it a photo of anything!

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McKiernan:

The other five photo's look rather authentic.

1.31.2008 1:43pm

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zach.:

yeah nothing about it struck me as particularly photoshopped. the story, on the other hand, is almost a caricature of idiot campaign commentary, but what else would you expect from the ny post?

1.31.2008 1:49pm

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BoydG (www):

I agree. I don't see any obvious photo-shoppery, although anything's possible.

1.31.2008 1:56pm

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Kevin D (mail) (www):

Photoshopped? So you're telling me Obama isn't black?

1.31.2008 1:56pm

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Sandi (www):

Photoshopped I can't believe anyone would consider it a photo of anything!

I wonder if you would think that without the caption leading you on telling you pointedly what you are to think. Pictures may be worth 1000 words, but the captions can lead you to, this several hundred, or that several hundred of them.

And how does the Times know that they are whispering and not talking? They don't.

You could just as easily say that Hillary is whispering to (Cheney?) in photo 2 while pointedly ignoring Obama.

1.31.2008 3:29pm

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capital L (mail):

I hate to sympathize with Ted Kennedy, but I can't really blame him for "pointedly ignoring" Hillary Clinton.

1.31.2008 3:56pm

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jaymaster (mail):

I looked at the exif data on all five of the shots, and they all have been “photoshopped” to a certain extent. By that, I mean they have all been processed through Photoshop.

Two of them have the original camera data still attached, so it’s safe to say those two aren’t composites. And it’s interesting to see that they were processed by 4-5 different people. It looks to me like the photo that looks “most fake” was enhanced or post processed more strongly than the others.

It’s actually pretty common for high quality digital photos to look “fake”. Some cameras are capable of capturing more colors and a dynamic range far greater than traditional films. And when we’re looking at them on monitors, we can see contrast and brightness far beyond what we could ever see on paper or even in real life. I think that’s what is going on here.

1.31.2008 4:41pm

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Trudy W. Schuett (mail) (www):

Well, jaymaster, you may be right. I just woke up from a too-long nap and realized I've got the latest virus that's floating around, so my eyesight may well be not what it's supposed to be.

UGH! Had a flu shot, too this season.

1.31.2008 5:43pm

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Ronald Coleman (mail) (www):

What is remarkable is the depth of field, which might have made me suspicious ten years ago, but...

1.31.2008 5:56pm

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jaymaster (mail):

Ron,

That’s what a great telephoto lens and a high res camera can do for you. The other shots were made with Canon 1DMkIII with a 300mm lens, and I suspect this one was shot with something similar.

It’s also pretty common to simulate or enhance the effect in Photoshop. You sharpen the heck out of the main subject area, and gradually blur the rest of the photo. I’ve seen some folks whip out something like that in a couple minutes, and it looks amazing.

1.31.2008 6:28pm

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Jerry Kindall (www):

Look at that picture! Hillary Clinton is totally ignoring Kennedy and Obama, who are just a few feet from her. That's pretty disrespectful of her.

1.31.2008 7:00pm

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B. Durbin (www):

Yeah, that's a baseball-style shot, which means the photographer was standing a goodly distance away. Focus on Hillary, click, change focus to Obama, click...

I want a telephoto lens. And the camera to go with it... :)

1.31.2008 8:47pm

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Dean Esmay:

I would have to say that all that's really going on here is that the camera was clicking away taking photo after photo and they captured one microsecond in time. Reading anything into that is a little ridiculous, honestly. The Post is often a silly newspaper.

2.1.2008 8:55am

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jaymaster (mail):

Yep. And at 10 shots per second, you can grab a lot of scenes.

I've been lusting over one of those cameras....

2.1.2008 11:31am

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