Re: [Paddlewise] Best Boat Color

From: Peter Staehling <staehpj1_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 05:53:41 -0700 (PDT)
--- John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu> wrote:
> The area in the vicinity of where the kayak
> is supposed to be looks a bit mottled to me.
> There seems to be a slight greenish tint on
> the photo only in the area around the 
> location of the kayak.  Looking at the photo
> with photoshop and zooming in to 400% and it
> looks like a "smudge" tool was used.

If it was doctored, shame on the person who did it. 
My eye was instantly drawn to that spot, perhaps
because of the surviver there or perhaps because of a
bad doctering job.  When I look at the blown up image
I would say it is suspicious, but I can't conclusively
say it was doctored.  It just may be that the surviver
is just a more diffuse reflector than the highlights
on the water.

In any case the picture makes the case very poorly. 
As I said before, there are a lot of reasons why this
is so.  The eye is an amazing receptor capable of
resolving many times more detail than can be displayed
in a 585 X 410 pixel jpeg.  Furthermore the brain can
process moving images to get far more infomation than
one still image from the same data stream contains.

Are dye and smoke packs a good idea?  Absolutely.

Does this picture drive that point home?  Not in my
opinion.

Pete Staehling




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