Iran's Photoshopped Missile

[3113]

Y'all heard about this?

As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a point that had not emerged before the photo was used on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Financial Times, The Chicago Tribune and several other newspapers as well as on BBC News, MSNBC, Yahoo! News, NYTimes.com and many other major news Web sites.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/10/world/ledemissiles1.jpg
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/10/world/ledemissiles2.jpg

....Today, The Associated Press distributed what appeared to be a nearly identical photo from the same source, but without the fourth missile. As the above illustration shows, the second missile from the right appears to be the sum of two other missiles in the image. The contours of the billowing smoke match perfectly near the ground, as well in the immediate wake of the missile. Only a small black dot in the reddish area of exhaust seems to differ from the missile to its left, though there are also some slight variations in the color of the smoke and the sky.

Does Iran’s state media use Photoshop? The charge has been leveled before. So far, though, it can’t be said with any certainty whether there is any official Iranian involvement in this instance. Sepah apparently published the three-missile version of the image today without further explanation.

Rest of the story here.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Compositionally, the three-missile shot lacks balance and symmetry. The four-missile shot is aesthetically superior.

 

[3113]

Compositionally, the three-missile shot lacks balance and symmetry. The four-missile shot is aesthetically superior.

I agree. It also adds more smoke.

 

[rgraham666]

More importantly it contains 25% more terror.

"Oh my God! The Iranians have at least four missiles! They might some day have nuclear warheads to put on them, some day! We here in the West who have over ten thousand nuclear warheads plus the missiles and planes to deliver them should be terrified!"

If you said "three missiles" it wouldn't be nearly as frightening.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Although three is a prime number.

 

[neonlyte]

Casting aspersions on Iran is despicable... they are a peace loving jovial nation who enjoy a good joke as much as the rest of us. It's the equivalent of Mao swimming in the Yangsee - though the Chinese didn't have Photoshop, so I'd give them the prize.

 

[TxRad]

Actually it's four photos of one missile. One and four are the same, two is the intermediate photo and three is the last one taken. Four times the terror at one quarter the cost. A win, win situation for any terror group.

 

[JagFarlane]

More importantly it contains 25% more terror.

"Oh my God! The Iranians have at least four missiles! They might some day have nuclear warheads to put on them, some day! We here in the West who have over ten thousand nuclear warheads plus the missiles and planes to deliver them should be terrified!"

If you said "three missiles" it wouldn't be nearly as frightening.

-chuckles- actually its more the "Oh my God! The Isrealies are using it as a reason to go on a long range mission to bomb the Iranians and cause another war because thier concept is 'Shoot first' "

 

[3113]

Never mind Israel, Iran's in real trouble now! They're being mocked by the internet!

From Boing Boing:

http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/iranzilla2.jpg

http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/iranzilla6.jpg

http://www.boingboing.net/images/x_2008/iranzilla8.jpg

 

[GratefulFred]

-chuckles- actually its more the "Oh my God! The Isrealies are using it as a reason to go on a long range mission to bomb the Iranians and cause another war because thier concept is 'Shoot first' "

So long as people are talking about inept missile photos and not shutting down their nuclear program we have to shoot first. We took put Sadaam Hussein's program in the 80s. Put Syria's out of commission recently and we'll do so with Iran very soon. Even if they rebuild it we gained a few days relief.

Who says taking out their nuclear facilities is going to some new war? The only one who gains from this is the Iranians in that it'll jack up the price of oil again. They are asking for a spanking. Ahmadnejad just wants to be perceived as king of the Arab world (even though he's Persian).

 

[rgraham666]

That'll go over real big with the Arabs.

 

[SlickTony]

Great pictures, v. funny!

I"m not surprised that it turns out the Iranians Photoshopped that picture. They were past masters at doctoring photos before Photoshop was invented.

 

[sethp]

The funny thing is if the press and the rest of us can see it. Imagine how easy it is for some of our agencies with the technology we have to see.

 

[litchipking]

I know everyone is having fun with this but let’s be serious for a minute. The United States cannot let Iran get away with this. I mean, if they’re Photoshopping missile images today then what next?

Ratcheting up the fear by cutting and pasting gas stations with $4.00 per gallon prices? Screwing with the money figures to make it appear that we are spending over forty billion dollars a year on the War on Drugs, without reducing the amount of drugs or drug users? Doctoring George Bush’s expression to make him look like a clueless hic?

Hey, this is some scary shit.

 

[Guest]

-chuckles- actually its more the "Oh my God! The Isrealies are using it as a reason to go on a long range mission to bomb the Iranians and cause another war because thier concept is 'Shoot first' "

It is less of a concept and more of a survival thing. Besides the Israelis are quite used to doctoring and lying from the other side. Happens a lot and no one is surprised.

Maharat

 

[sr71plt]

It is less of a concept and more of a survival thing. Besides the Israelis are quite used to doctoring and lying from the other side. Happens a lot and no one is surprised.

Maharat

So, true. And Americans should be about the last to get indignant over indulging in such shenanigans (you should read the gleeful CIA memoir I'm editing now for a mainstream press).

 

[only_more_so]

Y'all heard about this?

Rest of the story here.

As soon as I read the headline that said it was faked, I was like, yeah, it looks fake. The area around the bogus missile has the wrong color sky. It definitely wouldn't have won at worth1000.

 

[3113]

As soon as I read the headline that said it was faked, I was like, yeah, it looks fake. The area around the bogus missile has the wrong color sky. It definitely wouldn't have won at worth1000.

Geeze! Everyone's gotten so picky and masterful at photoshopping that some poor Iranians can't doctor one missile photo without being brutally critiqued. Be gentle. They don't have the same internet access you do.

 

[sr71plt]

Geeze! Everyone's gotten so picky and masterful at photoshopping that some poor Iranians can't doctor one missile photo without being brutally critiqued. Be gentle. They don't have the same internet access you do.

Unless . . . of course . . . universal Internet support has already been moved from India to Iran.

 

[SlickTony]

As soon as I read the headline that said it was faked, I was like, yeah, it looks fake. The area around the bogus missile has the wrong color sky. It definitely wouldn't have won at worth1000.

By gum, you're right. They slipped up there.