Fauxtoshop: Spotting fake photos
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Lesson for journalists on spotting fake photos and photoshops, how to detect altered photos. Presented during various workshops at the Poynter Institute.
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- 1. Detecting Fauxtography Theresa Collington
- 2. Spotting Fake Photos Detecting Fauxtography Theresa Collington
- 4. For as long as people have been taking photos...
- 5. People have been faking photos.
- 7. This famous Lincoln photo?
- 9. Fake!
- 11. Others, not so much...
- 12. How can you tell?
- 13. Five tips
- 14. Five tips • Check your gut
- 15. Five tips • Check your gut • Look for Clones, Frankensteins
- 16. Five tips • Check your gut • Look for Clones, Frankensteins • Zoom in and check for metadata
- 17. Five tips • Check your gut • Look for Clones, Frankensteins • Zoom in and check for metadata • Validate weather shots
- 18. Five tips • Check your gut • Look for Clones, Frankensteins • Zoom in and check for metadata • Validate weather shots • Use Snopes, Google and forums
- 19. First, check your gut • Often, pictures just feel wrong • What was your initial reaction? • Take a ‘gut-check’
- 22. What does your gut say?
- 26. So, according to your gut...
- 27. Next, look for Clones
- 28. AP Photo
- 29. Spotting Cloning: - Look for use of the cloning tool - Patterns and sameness? - Repeat images?
- 31. Check for Frankensteins Does the head match the body? Are the parts real? Correct?
- 33. What’s missing?
- 35. What’s wrong?
- 36. Zoom in • Enlarge pics at your desktop • Look for feathering, changes in light • Soft focus as a clue
- 41. Look closely at lighting
- 42. Check metadata
- 44. Go to File>File Info
- 47. EXIF Data
- 48. EXIF Data • EXIF = Exchangeable Image File Data • New cameras have it • Recorded into the image file • Date, time, flash, shutter speed, GPS in some cases
- 50. More properties
- 51. Check data on photo
- 53. Check photos with text.
- 54. Validate all weather shots Is it possible? Is it what they say it is?
- 56. Real...
- 58. Not real...
- 60. Not Katrina
- 62. Not the ’04 Tsunami
- 63. Check the Web • Snopes.com tracks urban legends, fauxtography • Google it with “hoax” • Post in a forum, Photoshop Disasters, email them
- 64. You can also... • Try some photo editing software • Ask an artist what they think • Post on your website, ask the audience if they think it is real • Really, post in a photo editing forum, identify yourself and ask the experts
- 65. Real! and really fun...
Editor's Notes
- General Sherman with generals, general blair is there!
- Lincoln and john calhoun’s body - circa 1960
- Now more than ever news organizations are dependent on viewer-submitted photos for use in their broadcasts, and in print. this from the nyt - article about a woman who ps’d her ex husband out of all vacation photos
- How can you tell if something that’s come across your desk is a fake? What vetting process do you have in place? Here are a few things you can ask and look for to save your news organization from getting hit by Slacktivism - this one was in high circulation - the damage is done even when it is ulitmately vetted
- Here are five tips to keep them from getting by you in your newsroom.
- Here are five tips to keep them from getting by you in your newsroom.
- Here are five tips to keep them from getting by you in your newsroom.
- Here are five tips to keep them from getting by you in your newsroom.
- Here are five tips to keep them from getting by you in your newsroom.
- respond naturally to every picture that you see - gauge your initial visceral reaction - if you are shocked or react very strongly - you need to make like a store clerk, and check it out...you may have gotten this one in an email. a shark attacking a navy diver.
- the top photo is an actual navy photo, and the bottom is a shark in africa taken by photographer Charles Maxwell for National Geographic. some joker photoshopped them, and it became an email hoax photo.
- so - what does your gut say? where’s the smoke?
- you can see they flipped him and just added in a cigarette...
- this one was popular around 9/11....don’t you think he would have heard the plane? you think that looks right? looks funny to you now - but this was circulated widely back in 2001.
- photo released to the media from the iranian government - made it to the front page of the nyt, palm beach post, major papers in the us - but one of the nyt photo editors was suspicious, so was the blogosphere
- here’s the AP Photo taken from the same vantage point, there were only three launched that day...
- Sepah news - iran. bottom - show the clones - colors match - littlegreenfootballs.com
- explain this is what the clone tool does - fark’s take on it...this was a parody, talk about slacktivism
- look for this in politics, emails that are forwarded, magazine covers...
- four fingers and no nipples on the baby in this ad...not to mention the giant cabbages...exaggerated, yes - but this is the kind of stuff that can tip you off...
- look at the arms and the color, the seam where the child is in the tube, lobster arms...one strap on her suit
- take a look at the book here - what isn’t consistent? see the hotspot on his head? get up close and personal
- point out the hot spot on his head and the softening on the book, pay attention to shadows and light
- Ask yourself could this really happen? and if so - is it the storm or weather event that is taking place now, or something in the past - taken by someone else, that the sender is trying to pass off as what’s happening today? this is actually a real photo...taken at Lake Ockechobee, fred smith, 1991 - many have tried to pass it off as other events - waterspout and lightning bolt.
- check out the lighting on the rig and around it
- taken by professional plains photographer - not “just the other night” and nothing to do with the hurricane, weather folks know - should be part of their job description now.
- tsunami in 2004 - actually came from china in 2002 - an event called a tidal bore...the city isn’t phuket/thailand - chinese architecture, not thai - city in the top is not phuket, not thailand...
- make sure you check online...lotta good resources out there - don’t let them get past you
- slacktivists