In the right photo, you can see the slight shadow around his collar, which is absent in the photo on the left. Both uniforms are identical down to the creases at the elbow and where the background meets the pattern.

The big question then is, “why alter the photo on the left”?

Whether or not a digital camera was used is irrelevant. The photos, whether prints, slides, or negatives, could have been digitally scanned later.

I suggest looking at the link in comment #4, which shows the difference between the two photos. Obviously both are derived from a single original photo.

As others have pointed out, they take photos for their file so why would this be needed???

Hi Zooey, LTNS!

These soldiers did NOT die in battle!

Look at their names and date of death. Read the news!!!!!

http://www.examiner.com/r-2306486~CNN___Dad__Army_Won_t_Tell_Me_Who_Killed_My_Boy.html

They were killed, probably at the hands of another soldier. A suspect has been taken into custody and these deaths are being investigated. This is another Tillman or Lynch or Johnson situation where the military is desperate to make heroes by falsifying the images. I doubt if either of them was photographed in front of a large flag.

Are these even the right faces? Were they special ops? What did they do to irritate a fellow soldier? Was the killing justifiable?

So while we notice the all-too-obvious photoshopping, the distraction, the real shame and the real story lies somewhere else. We know from bitter experience that the military will lie even to the families of the slain.

Notice this: photo not available!

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/dates/2008/sep/14/darris–j-dawson/

The truth won’t be available nay time soon, either.

It isn’t even that hard to make them more believable in Photoshop.

I don’t think the Republicans put much stock into learning the in’s and out’s of computer imaging software…or just about any real tech that doesn’t come with Computer Professor as the default guide.

When Iran can pull the wool over the network’s eyes with their photoshop efforts, that makes this effort look like preschool finger painting.

It’s the same uniform with the same folding and shadows.

I hate to break it to ya, but no, you don’t. You wouldn’t know high standards if you ran into them.

The media have played the role of stenographers, and willing propagandists, more interested in keeping themselves in good terms with the Bush administration than in reporting facts.

Where were the San Antonio Express when the Bush administration lied about Iraq’s involvement in 9/11? Oh, that’s right: Busy helping this administration catapult the propaganda.

And now all of the sudden the media have use for facts? Please. I am tempted to think the only reason for their “outrage” is that they didn’t see a way to benefit financially and/or politically from this one lie.

the ratio is one to one.
All CorpoRat “news” is propaganda. It ALL “spins” the CoproRat line. In a CorpoRat State, corpoRat media ARE State Media. It just can’t be any other way…

you only gotta change above the shirt-line…

interchangeable c=ogs in the machine.

sez the former sarge…

Why are soldiers spending time photoshopping pics? Shouldn’t they be fighting a war or something, and not propogandizing? Isn’t a camera a more effective tool in the hands of a professional? OH, I FORGOT. The press wasn’t invited to this particular war.
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While I share your outrage about the press, I think you should know that the military DOES have “professional” photographers within their ranks, just as they have professional doctors, professional lawyers, and professional everything else.

I served my country as a Navy photographer (PH2) back in the 1970’s. It was our job to take portraits of military personnel and take grip-and-grin shots of awards ceremonies, but also to document accidents and equipment damage and photograph newsworthy events. I really didn’t think of my job as a frivolous waste of time. And I WAS a professional. That was my job, the one the military trained me for. And quite well, I might add — the Naval School of Photography was one of the highest rated institutions in the instruction of photography in the country.

So be mad about the lack of media in this war. Be mad at the ratio of news to propaganda we get. But please don’t diss military photographers.

I’m not a fan of Cheney & his STASI either, but I’m not so certain they used the same ‘uniform’ shots.

P.S. When I went thru Army Basic Training in 1985, all of us new GIs took similar photos. And with the exception of our smiling faces, each and every one of them looked almost exactly the same . . .

In normal circumstances I would agree with you, however, since there is evidence of this administration controlling everything that becomes public, no matter how trivial, I’m inclined to believe that this is part of some Pentagon program implemented under Bush/Cheney.
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You raise an excellent point, and that is because this administration has lied to us about so many things — mostly for less than honorable motives — it’s tough to believe that ANY lie could have an innocent reason behind it.

Such is the danger when one pees into one’s own pool.

Why would they do such a thing — because they could? Does the Pentagon feel they can and will lie about everything?