Now that BP has plugged its disastrous oil spill you might think its PR woes were over. Not so, it has had to admit that an image of its Oil Spill command center was Photoshopped.
The fakery was exposed by Americablog, which described BP’s work as so poor that “a 12 year old kid could do a better job”. In the photo below, three additional screens’ worth of imagery was added to the monitors, resulting in making the center look busier than it originally did (note we’ve changed the first image below from the one we originally posted as that was an even worse Photoshop than this one, which we believe to be the one that BP originally published).
Compare that to the original:
The Guardian reports that BP is claiming that an staff photographer was simply showing off his skills and that Photoshop will now only be used for “Things like color correction, cropping and removing glare.” There’s no mention, however of Americablog’s other charges – that the metadata for the original image allegedly shows it as being taken in 2001 and that more Photoshopping may have taken place.
Either way, Photoshopping like this is no biggie, but it is a further embarrassment for a company that has already this year taken probably the biggest PR hit of any company in the past decade.
Fine. THE issue is:
Did BP, by doing so, twist the truth ?
No prove is presented they did.
So what ?
The main issue here is that a lot of people are getting the impression that BP isn’t doing enough to fix the oil spil. So if you post a photo showing of how busy you are in your control center and it turns out you added a few screens to make you look busier then yes, you are twisting the truth.
Image at the top is incorrect, (AFAIK) , please use http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Environment/Pix/columnists/2010/7/21/1279706928293/BP-Deepwater-Horizon-oil–006.jpg as the one you are using seems to contain a alien.
Well spotted Dan – fixed. Thanks.
Is that E.T. on the left there? Or some other alien species, great Photoshop work! A new species has been born
Well E.T. has disappeared, but can still be found here http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1xQeOPE9ePU/TETjTKLdr5I/AAAAAAAAFC8/ZNBH-0AINW8/s1600/bpnewphoto.jpg
Shame, shame, shame, is there no Honor at all among those folks at BP?
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these bp guys are idoits…how did anyone put a man on the moon in the 60s(dont believe that by the way) but nobody knows how to stop this leak? im a lazy laid off american hire me bp bet i could stop that damn leak.