The image is 100% real in the thing that matters, that that the photographer captured this scene.
The photographer has played with levels, dodge & burn et al, so the aesthetic output is "fake", but those are actual people, holding their actually dead children.
The editing might mean he is not worth the prize.
But that's it -- nothing more to discuss. Not "where is the blood?", "why aren't they curled", "they're holding their eyes closed", etc. I do hope those are just the opinions of one disturbed individual.
Try reading some World News, from world sources (European, African, Arab, etc), outside the US media, and you would see tons of similar photos. Including tons of similar unedited photos from Gaza.
People would have defended more and have shown MORE respect for the moon landing photos.
No, you're missing the point of the article. According to the article the photographer didn't capture the scene. It says he took the people standing with their dead children from a photo and pasted them into a crowded street. E.g. merging pictures. A bit more dramatic than playing with lighting etc.
No, that's not what the article says. It says the image was probably based on more than one picture merged together, but it doesn't claim the specific things you say it does.
The HDR effect usually implies taking the same photo several times with different lighting and merging them all together. I wonder if this is the manipulation he's detecting, or if there's more as the parent suggests
You also don't need ELA to see that. Just by looking at the sharp edges of the hair on the guy at the front and to the right, you can clearly see that this has been composited together.
I don't see any obvious such thing (at least on that part) and I've been doing Photoshop work for 10+ years.
Things to keep in mind:
1) Error Level Analysis is extremely unreliable. Especially if an image has had several saves and editing passes (and given that he did it on a small jpg, not the full image).
2) Sharp edges can also come from the sharpen tool, which can be manually applied selectively on different areas (instead of in the whole image).
3) Lighting changing and artifacts can also some from sloppy dodging and burning work. Both artifacts introduced by (2) and (3) also show up on ELA.
4) The time metadata he mentions in the article is useless. For one, the camera time could be totally wrong depending on the timezone settings. When I did some photo work, I always forgot to set mine when changing timezones frequently.
The photographer has played with levels, dodge & burn et al, so the aesthetic output is "fake", but those are actual people, holding their actually dead children.
The editing might mean he is not worth the prize.
But that's it -- nothing more to discuss. Not "where is the blood?", "why aren't they curled", "they're holding their eyes closed", etc. I do hope those are just the opinions of one disturbed individual.
Try reading some World News, from world sources (European, African, Arab, etc), outside the US media, and you would see tons of similar photos. Including tons of similar unedited photos from Gaza.
People would have defended more and have shown MORE respect for the moon landing photos.