Altered Photographs: Kent State Massacre.

1. jackie
   March 11th, 2007 at 1:24 pm

   The altered one looks darker...but that's the only difference I see...

2. Julia
   March 11th, 2007 at 1:33 pm

   Well there's a big pole sticking out of her head in the first one....

3. tomas
   March 11th, 2007 at 3:58 pm

   she's got a post stickin' out of her head.

4. Lea
   March 11th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

   yes, the pole in the middle of the picture, and the weird shorts the person on the left of the photo is wearing are different in the doctored photo.

5. Lea
   March 11th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

   woops i meant right side ;D

6. Mike
   March 11th, 2007 at 9:03 pm

   now why'd they have to go and remove that javelin?

7. Denita TwoDragons
   March 11th, 2007 at 9:17 pm

   Why the heck would they do that, anyways? And who got their five year old kid to do the work...?

   (C'mon, you have to admit that's a sucky 'shop job, y'all. I can see where they did the editing!)

   --TwoDragons

8. Raqlaine
   March 11th, 2007 at 9:20 pm

   Man, big freaking deal, someone removed a pole that looked like it was sticking out of the woman's head. I suppose the photo is more famous now for the pole-removal than the massacre aftermath it captured. Stupid.

9. Daniel Kim
   March 12th, 2007 at 3:49 am

   It's amusing to read the disparaging remark by Denita TwoDragons, describing the alteration as a "'shop job". At the time, photographic alteration was not done by digital manipulation, but by X-acto knife, airbrush and darkroom tricks. While the fencepost removal is not even as smooth as contemporary methods could produce, such manipulation was not a trivial matter of a few mouse clicks.

10. dogear
    March 12th, 2007 at 9:10 am

    1st version of Photoshop was released in 1990.

11. Denita TwoDragons
    March 12th, 2007 at 11:18 am

    So sorry, I bow to your obviously superior wit and knowledge, Daniel Kim.

    Really.

    Honest.

    *snicker*

    --TwoDragons

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