{"id":1403,"date":"2009-01-30T14:53:51","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T22:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2009-01-30T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T22:53:51","slug":"photographic-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Photographic Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last July the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released a <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/10\/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>picture of a missile test<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 It turned out the picture had been photo shopped (new verb alert) to show more missiles than there really were.\u00a0 There are lots of other examples of large changes to pictures that have been discovered there may be many more that changed minds but weren&#8217;t truthful.\u00a0 What can be done?\u00a0 Probably nothing.\u00a0 Pixels can be made to lie.\u00a0 This was also true with paint.\u00a0 Gods and patrons were often more beautiful in their portraits than the facts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"tt-flickr tt-flickr-Small\" title=\"PC260016.JPG\" href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/3163422430\/pc260016jpg.html\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3102\/3163422430_81f9797844_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"PC260016.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>How much airbrushing or adjusting color is allowed before a photograph is no longer a photograph and has become a &#8220;digital creation&#8221; or a &#8220;digital distortion&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last July the Iranian Revolutionary Guard released a picture of a missile test.\u00a0 It turned out the picture had been photo shopped (new verb alert) to show more missiles than there really were.\u00a0 There are lots of other examples of large changes to pictures that have been discovered there may be many more that changed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}