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Re:The stunning hypocrisy of VentureBeat's attack on Y Combi... by domador on Monday September 10, 2012 @01:31PM (#4500924)
If the two photos of Graham come from the same source image, then it looks like the microphone on the first image (http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/paul-graham.j...) was airbrushed out (http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/pg-lowball.jp...). (Unless a microphone was airbrushed in for the first image.) Just thought that was curious, in addition to the desaturation...
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Re:The stunning hypocrisy of VentureBeat's attack on Y Combi... by darkarmani on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:44PM (#4502147)
Here is the photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jolieodell/4525127286/in/photos...

The link from the article links directly to that, and yet they heavily manipulated it and call it journalism.

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Re:The stunning hypocrisy of VentureBeat's attack on Y Combi... by mattmanser on Monday September 10, 2012 @02:35PM (#4501323)
The shadow of the mike's been left on the cheek and there's some fairly obvious photoshopping of the wire on the ear and the t-shirt.

They've also removed the red-eye and spruced up his eyes.

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Re:The stunning hypocrisy of VentureBeat's attack on Y Combi... by darkarmani on Monday September 10, 2012 @04:31PM (#4502074)
The second one has shadows by the neck that were blurred to hide the mic shadow.

This seems like a lot of image manipulation for a "honest" journalist.

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