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Chris Pollock

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Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« on: May 23, 2012, 05:45:21 am »

I read this today, and thought it was good for a little comic relief. No doubt a lot of you have already seen it.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/when-photoshop-goes-wrong-floating-inspectors-cause-internet-stir-20120523-1z3zo.html

I can't understand how anyone expected such slipshod attempts at forgery to pass for real photos. My best guess is that the government officials couldn't be bothered to visit the sites in person, and instructed some unfortunate underling to fake the photos instead. The underling wasn't an expert, but did the best (s)he could, with predictable results. Perhaps the photos accompanied a boring propaganda piece that few people would actually read, so the author hoped that nobody would notice?
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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2012, 05:57:15 am »

You can find a lot more PS disasters here.

Cheers,
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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2012, 09:20:30 am »

I read this today, and thought it was good for a little comic relief. No doubt a lot of you have already seen it.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/when-photoshop-goes-wrong-floating-inspectors-cause-internet-stir-20120523-1z3zo.html

I can't understand how anyone expected such slipshod attempts at forgery to pass for real photos. My best guess is that the government officials couldn't be bothered to visit the sites in person, and instructed some unfortunate underling to fake the photos instead. The underling wasn't an expert, but did the best (s)he could, with predictable results. Perhaps the photos accompanied a boring propaganda piece that few people would actually read, so the author hoped that nobody would notice?



Once again, critics get it wrong: this isn't bad PSing, this is real, observed levitation, of which much oriental charm is constructed. That's why there's that unbearabe lightness of being, which appears in so much of the art from the region. The ying and the yang and the wham and the bam, the ding and the dong of it, as it were.

Special  note to help Jeremy: no disresepct intended towards any constituents of mother/father/brother or sister Earth.

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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2012, 11:47:06 am »

The people who ordered these forgeries should have checked with the guys who took Trotsky out of the early Bolshevik pictures. They were "pros."
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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2012, 01:43:29 pm »

... Special  note to help Jeremy...

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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2012, 09:17:42 am »

I wonder if this is a typical example of what happens when someone gets the lowest bidder to do the work?  ::)

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Re: Unbelievably bad photographic forgeries
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2012, 02:35:12 am »

Maybe the government of the People's Republic of China have a sense of humour - who would have thought.

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