I was looking at the published pictures and thought that I would be
hard pressed to get such high quality images, the "frozen" urine
stream, the flat lighting with little or no shadows etc, etc. It
looks to me as if they were staged in a studio, not taken by a
"squaddie with a digi-cam".
in the back of a lorry.
Actually, the frozen stream of urine would be fairly easy to catch,
even with a $6 disposable. It's pretty dark inside a truck like
that, so the flash will freeze anything, completely. Focus would
be fairly unimportant ( do disposables even have any focus
mechanism? ) because of the small lens aperture, and all the more
so if this was a digicam. The flash would also render the lighting
flat.
The technical quality of the pictures isn't what betrays them as
likely fakes. I've seen lots of poorly focused images from this
type of situation, and I would expect a lot of them from this
truck, if this were real, however I would also expect them to pick
the best, clearest photos to show us. What gives these away are
that the man -> looks like
beat up. There's very little blood, bruising, and so on. And then
when you consider this isn't the type of gun, truck, uniform, and
so on, these do seem rather questionable.
I don't know what some of our more expert photographers make of it
technically (I won't comment about the "incident" until there are
some hard facts, not just "journalese")
The sad part is that recent events force us to even consider these
photos as being real in the first place!
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