Anyone else a little weirded out that the right complete photo and the wrong complete photo are so similar, even down to the missing black bar behind KJI?
The concrete is several centimeters taller behind Kim.
Careless.
I’d say Photoshopped.
If that is a photoshop job, the blend around his head is amazingly good quality.
Therefore I suspect it’s not a photoshop job at all.
And I am very experienced in the art, so I think I’d be able to tell.
Consistent with my theory that it is not a contiguous wall but sectional pieces of concrete.
The poor guy who 'shopped it was probably using some cheap Chinese pirate software with a Xeroxed cover in B&W.
Or MS Paint.
I agree - in the ‘complete’ shot, the hands of the person on the left of him are clearly visible- in the cropped shot, they’re in shadow. It’s not the same photo in both cases.
It’s possible, I suppose, that a number of photos were taken of that setup and the best photo of the leader was shopped into the best photo of the group, but at the moment, it’s looking to me very much like one of those typical ‘fake! teh pixuls are wrong!’ things that abound on the internet.
I’m not even sure it is concrete at all. It appears to have an uneven turned up lip at the base of the stand, like it’s draped paper or similar.
In fact, if you’re going to composite in a pic of Kim Jong Il, put in a better one than that - he looks like a dishevelled unwell old man who has wandered in accidentally.
Then why is the top of the wall behind Kim fuzzy, unlike the rest of it?
I didn’t know about the three nipple man; does he have a slow hand? Anyway, that’s proof enough for me.
Still, in this photo you can quite clearly see the shadow behind KJI is at a completely different angle (not just width) to those cast by everyone around him.
Also the meshing isn’t that hard to do, especially if the original photo of KJI was taken against a white/light background that’d enable you to take everything darker than some X variable. The guy on You Suck At Photoshop took a hammock and pasted it against a tropical background using this technique, it brought the mesh over just fine and he didn’t even really fine tune it, you could see the background between the mesh of the hammock just fine
I don’t think the point was “four missiles are scarier than three.” I think the point was that they didn’t want us to know that one of the missiles didn’t fire, so they 'shopped in a fake missile to cover the malfunctioning launcher.
Even more obvious, look at the man to Kim’s left (our right) of Kim. In the “complete” photo, his pants legs are smooth and he has medals or a patch high on his left chest. In the blowup, his pants legs are rumpled and there’s nothing on his chest except the diagonal leather strap. Not to mention the heights of the two men to our right of Kim. In one picture, the one closest to Kim is the taller one, in the other picture, he’s shorter. Definitely two different pics.
Is Kim Jong ill?
. . . except the one guy wearing similar style pants.
Is there any reason to believe it’s not just an old pic?
Slow hand? How about an extra hand instead?
er… look again? The guy with the similar pants’ shadow is at around a 70 degree angle, whereas the shadow cast by KJI’s pants is nearly 90 degrees. His is the only shadow at a nearly 90 degree angle
Not seeing the big discrepancy; they all seem to pretty much follow the line of the pants. No one else has on pants as straight as Kim’s.
I think there’s a tendancy to wrongly view North Koreans as a bunch of hayseed simpletons working with technology from the 70’s. The country has problems to be sure, but some of them, especially in the government, do have access to reasonable technology, and they are not without finesse.
That’s because Dear Leader only wears the most hetero pants in all of North Korea. And every week they go through the officer corps, and whoever has the gayest pants on gets shot.
It’s a motivational tool.
I’d just like to say that, if it is a Photoshop job, and I don’t think it is, it’s a damned good one, and not “crappy” at all.
Agreed.
1 - The soldiers on either side of him have their hands behind their backs in the zoomed-in version, but they’re at their sides in the complete photo.
2 - The soldiers on either side of him are wearing some sort of badge/medal on their left breasts in the complete photo; these are absent or not reflecting light the same way in the zoomed photo.
3 - The soldier to KJI’s left is noticeably taller that KJI in the complete photo, but closer to equal height in the zoomed photo.
4 - Those leg shadows are completely different in the two photos.