This photo was submitted to show the burning buildings in Beirut from the bombings by the Israeli air raid in 2006.
The smoke was clearly Photoshopped by duplication. You can clearly see the billows of smoke are identical and has a repeating pattern. This was done to make the image more dramatic than it was. The smoke was also darkened to make it look more intense.
Here is the real photo.
As you can see, the fake photo looks more dramatic as the smoke is darker and there is more smoke to make the fires look worst than it was.
The fake photo was actually published by Reuters. Fortunately, when the photo came out, a lot of Internet users saw through the deceit and called Reuters about it.
Another fake photo is this.
This photo was released by the media arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. They were trying to show the world Iran's provocative missile test.
Fortunately again, keen eyes were able to catch the digital manipulation. The Photoshopping done here isn't as noticeable as the smoke. But here's the real photo.
See the smoke was added and an extra missile was added.
If these photos were supposed to be art. I have no problem with it being Photoshopped. But since these were news and supposed to represent the truth, then I don't agree on it being Photoshop.
Even a bad news photo that is blurry and with bad composition will still be better as long as it is the truth. Look at the photo here by Robert Capa on the D-Day Landing at Omaha Beach.
You can see the composition is bad, the exposure is bad and the picture is out of focus. But so what? He was under fire by the Germans at the beach and was hiding behind one of the steel crosses at the beach and he still managed to take a photo that represented the story about the war.What about this famous photo by Ronald N. Timberlake?
Blurry and dark, but tells the story of the violence of war.
The last photograph was taken during the Vietnam war when the village where these kids lives was 'napalmed'. The photographer who took this photo (if I remember it right)in 1972 is Nick Ut (not Ronald N. Timberlake) and the girl in the photo, Phan Thi Kim Phuc, then a nine-year-old kid, had removed her burning clothes and run naked to escape her burning village. She is now fully grown up and living in Havana, Cuba where she and the photographer had a reunion years back.
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