Sunday, September 21, 2014

Grain of Salt

You know that spectacular picture of the space shuttle being launched through a cloud bank? When you see something that spectacular, you might want to take it with a grain of salt.

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  1. It should be noted that the first link does explicitly state that it's a composite image: the Spanish tells what it was done with; the English merely states that it's a composite of two images.

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  2. However...the image is being passed around *without* the explanation that the article has or the original website has as "space shuttle breaches the clouds". I have had it presented, at least a dozen times now, as a spectacular site, not a composite image/a manufactured object.

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    1. Yeah, its passed off as something that happened, not a piece of art, which is what it really is.

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