Comments on: Another Thing BP Can’t Do Right: Photoshop

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:04:54 +0000

I think I found a few more BP lies. Could it really be that BP has released images of penguins, walruses and orcas frolicking in the Gulf of Mexico?

We report, you decide.

FUNNY, check it out.

http://www.dailygoat.com/?p=1997

By: Andi

Andi — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:45:24 +0000

I live in New Orleans, the gulf of mexico is BROWN.
Even oil free..

By: JohnV

JohnV — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:06:02 +0000

That’s comically awful.

By: Scott Bruce

Scott Bruce — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:30:35 +0000

Is that a piece of the heli-pad near the bottom right corner?

By: georges

georges — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:02:18 +0000

Fingers crossed that no one finds out we photoshoped that one

By: Cynic View

Cynic View — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:52:30 +0000

Looks like their Quality Assurance team for this project is the same as the leaky rig’s.

By: Rose

Rose — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 02:11:00 +0000

Wow. As a photo enthusiast myself, I can tell you that this picture is nearly impossible. You don’t need to look at tiny details. The photography is just wrong.

First of all, the focus is off. You can’t have the people in the foreground to be in focus and also the ships in the distance. That’s too much depth of field. It’s not natural.

Second, the exposure (brightness) is ridiculous. How can the dark interior and the sunny exterior both have perfect exposure in the same shot? It’s not possible to have both parts in such detail without manipulation.

I don’t understand how a photographer could think that this would pass as an authentic photo.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:26:37 +0000

The guy on the left has his fingers crossed…
Interesting.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:12:29 +0000

This one has a few things wrong, just at a first glance:

On the right side of the viewscreen, a small piece is simply *cut off*, down near the bottom. A closer look also reveals a sharp trim-line.

The altimeter shows the aircraft is about 130′ above sea level, moving at 30 KIAS. That’s probably a little low slow even for a helicopter in transit.

The engine indicators all seem to show zero. There is no fuel flowing. The rotors aren’t spinning. (Look on the left-side display. It’s the needle just to the left of the radar altimeter… which is showing 10′ above the ground.

Neither man has his hands on the controls. A helicopter is flown with both hands; one on the stick (the cyclic) and one on the collective (a lever to the side of the seat that looks like a sports car’s parking brake.)

The water changes colors – dramatically – just to the left of the boats.

Yeah, this is a ‘shop, and not an especially good one.

By: Vinowen

Vinowen — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:48:38 +0000

Team? There was a team of people that was responsible for these bad shops? One unpaid summer high school intern I might believe, but a team?