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freedom4free
 
Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:31 pm
PRESS BLACKENS PADILLA'S FACE

http://pointbite.com/images/padilla1.jpghttp://pointbite.com/images/padilla2.jpg

2005-11-23 - How do these people go to sleep at night. Look at the original Padilla photo on the left, and the one CNN and other media outlets use
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The MSM plays their usual tricks to make the man seem as evil as possible.

He look more Arabic/Asian only they can be evil....right ?
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FreeDuck
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:35 pm
That's the first time I've heard someone use MSM who wasn't from the right. Don't you think there could be an honest explanation for it?
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freedom4free
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:37 pm
Quote:
Don't you think there could be an honest explanation for it?


What would that be ?
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FreeDuck
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:39 pm
The brightness setting on a computer?
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:39 pm
The one on the right doesn't have a border... coincidence? I think not....
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freedom4free
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:45 pm
Only a photo editing software can do that kind of thing.
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 02:46 pm
And neither have touched up that shiny spot on his forehead. Wonder why...

And what's with CNN using that X on Cheney's face? Can't they decide if they are Liberal or Conservative?

Also, I think that f4f is a closet conservative. What else explains his use of "MSM"?
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AliceInWonderland
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 04:39 pm
It looks like the contrast was increased on the right, or decreased on the left picture. Are you certain the one on the right wasn't the "original?" Do you have a site for the picture you're calling the original? A regurgitation from another forum really isn't adequate.
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freedom4free
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 04:49 pm
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It looks like the contrast was increased on the right, or decreased on the left picture. Are you certain the one on the right wasn't the "original?" Do you have a site for the picture you're calling the original? A regurgitation from another forum really isn't adequate.


Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Padilla

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f3/JPadilla.jpg

José Padilla's Florida driver's license photo
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DrewDad
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 04:54 pm
A lot depends on the scanner, the monitor used with the scanner, the capture software, the various forms that the "original" image has been converted into, etc.
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freedom4free
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 04:57 pm
DrewDad, you're right CNN must have a crappy scanner. Very Happy

People dont usually mess with photos, just copy and paste it from the original source.

Hey, unless CNN had the original source and everyone else lightened theirs.
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fishin
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 05:08 pm
freedom4free wrote:
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It looks like the contrast was increased on the right, or decreased on the left picture. Are you certain the one on the right wasn't the "original?" Do you have a site for the picture you're calling the original? A regurgitation from another forum really isn't adequate.


Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jose_Padilla


Wikipedia is hardly any sort of authorative site. Anyone could have photoshopped the image and posted it there.
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freedom4free
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 05:09 pm
fishin' around 98% of the news sources are using the lightened photo..

Do a google search.
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fishin
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 05:23 pm
freedom4free wrote:
fishin' around 98% of the news sources are using the lightened photo..

Do a google search.


I did a Google search and around 75% of the stories don't have any picture of him at all which makes your 98% claim dubious at best.

Of the sites that DO have an image they are pretty much evenly split between the two images - the lighter one is credited to the AP and the darker image credited to NBC News.

Interestingly, Amnesty International has a image of him credited to AFP (A French news outlet) that is in between the two you posted.

http://emailimages.ctsg.com/ImageLibrary/Amnesty/WAC/action_11665.jpg
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username
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 06:35 pm
Driver's license looks like a pretty close flash, pretty intense, which tends to wash colors out--look at the washout of detail on the shirt.
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kelticwizard
 
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Reply Wed 23 Nov, 2005 07:31 pm
Using the wonderful freeware Xnview, www.xnview.com , I took the picture at the left, decreased the "gamma", which darkened it, and added a touch of red.

It looks pretty much like the darkened picture in the first post.

Although there is a brightness setting, the "gamma" darkens it as well, so that is what they did. Plus added a touch of red, for some reason. Note the difference in color of blue in the background.

I don't know that much about graphics, but that would seem to be deliberate.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v645/kelticwizard100/padillagammaandred.jpg
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