Thursday, February 28, 2008

Photoshoped pics


This picture to me was the worst violation, even though it was by no means the most photoshoped. It originated with a Lebanese photographer Adnan Hajj. Hajj manipulated the photo by increasing the smoke and making it look thicker. It was manipulated to make the Israli raid look much more devastating than it really was. This manipulation is very harmful because it shows artificially increased damage from the Isralies to Lebanon. The other pictures (with the exceptions of the political campaign) are relatively harmless in the end, but because of the extreem emotional reaction that this photo could create, it could inflame the public opinion even more than it already is and cause unecessary injuries and deaths on both sides of the conflict.