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"Bomber" Superimposed onto Metropolitan Police Surveillance Camera Photo?
2005-08-04
(Picture at link)
..."At first, (almost) everything looks fine, but look closer... look at the guy with the white hat... check out his left arm (HIS left arm).... the lower of the rails of the railing is IN FRONT of his left arm... where of course it shouldn't be! I'm NO image specialist, but this sure looks ridiculous. I'd say itÂŽs a fake."

The CLG has also inspected this image. "The white-hatted man was apparently superimposed onto the photo. Not only is his arm 'behind' a railing that is supposedly several feet behind HIM, but also, upon magnification in Photoshop, part of the bar actually goes into his head. This was 'touched-up,' but pixels of his head mix unmistakably with pixels from the railing..."

Actually not. It's a function of a low-res camera with a transfer from videotape to a compressed video format.

Here's the man cropped from the original pic, original size.

And here's the same image enlarged...

In the smaller version, you can see that the light on his cheekbone appears distinct from the shading of the bar. The detail is lost on enlargement, making it appear that the bar runs into his head at an angle. Bars actually seldom do that. Note also that the bar appearing to run into his sleeve is also at an angle. Now, here's the cheekbone with more enlargement...

The bar running into the guy's head again resolves into two separate pieces (almost). The sleeve enlargement is here...
... and while it doesn't resolve as well as the bar-cheekbone meeting, it still retains its dip and then edges upward again, which probably makes it the stripe on the guy's jacket.

The moral of this story, of course, is that if you're an idiot you shouldn't dabble in conspiracy theories.
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