{"id":10188,"date":"2013-05-14T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10188"},"modified":"2013-05-14T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T17:39:31","slug":"how-the-2013-world-press-photo-of-the-year-was-faked-with-photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10188","title":{"rendered":"How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Basically, as far as we can surmise, Hansen took a series of photos \u2014 and then later, realizing that his most dramatically situated photo was too dark and shadowy, decided to splice a bunch of images together and apply a liberal amount of dodging (brightening) to the shadowy regions. For what it\u2019s worth, Hansen claims that the light in the alley was natural \u2014 and to be fair, sometimes magical lighting does occur. I think most of you will agree, though, that the photo simply <em>feels<\/em> fake \u2014 there\u2019s just something about the lighting that sets off a warning alarm in your brain.\u00a0As for <em>why<\/em> World Press Photo didn\u2019t forensically analyze the photo using freely available, advanced, accurate analysis tools such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourandsix.com\/fourmatch\/\">FourMatch<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/fotoforensics.com\/\">FotoForensics<\/a>\u2026 who knows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/extreme\/155617-how-the-2013-world-press-photo-of-the-year-was-faked-with-photoshop\">ExtremeTech \u00bb How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basically, as far as we can surmise, Hansen took a series of photos \u2014 and then later, realizing that his most dramatically situated photo was too dark and shadowy, decided to splice a bunch of images together and apply a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=10188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1121],"tags":[627],"class_list":["post-10188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}