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Questions tagged [photography]

the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.

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Is this picture showing an eagle flying upside-down genuine?

I found this picture on Facebook: It definitely doesn't come from a particularly credible source (I F***ing Love Science), but I'm curious if that picture is genuine. My mother claims that the legs, wings and head appear "unnaturally twisted"…
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Does camera flash destroy art?

This is a question which is highly discussed on the Internet but I've been researching for a long time and I've never found any scientific proof backing this up. It's known (or at least spoken of) that intense light creates an effect called…
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Is this photo of a road detouring around a tree authentic?

This image has been widely shared. It has appeared on my Facebook wall after a recent event in Australia where a sacred tree was chopped down to make way for a new road. It was offered as an example of how it could have been preserved. (For clarity:…
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Is this picture of a bent propeller genuine?

This picture has been floating around the internet recently: Is it a genuine picture or photo-shopped? Or perhaps its some sort of optical illusion similar to the wagon wheel effect?
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Is this a real photo of North Korean kids?

I've seen this image multiple times thrown around in social media. It purportedly shows malnourished kids in North Korea. I could not find a reputable source for this image using Google image search, only blogs. Is this image truly showing North…
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Is this a satellite image of Australian bushfires?

This image has been widely shared on Facebook and other social media platforms: Is this a satellite image of Australia, taken recently to show the currently burning bushfires, or is it a computer render to demonstrate the extent?
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Did smiling, female Israeli soldiers pose with "We kill Children" placards during Gaza War?

This image is widely shared on social media. Did they really do that? The photo seems real because there is what appears to be Hebrew letters in the background and the uniforms look right.
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Was Bill Gates' mugshot photo used in 2010 as a template for Outlook contacts?

This claim recently came up in a Reddit post but linked to this article from news.softpedia.com which states: Getting back to the Gates mug shot being used as the generic profile picture in Outlook 2010, Ars discovered that the silhouettes in…
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Is this photo showing a woman standing in the nude before teenagers real?

There's a photo going around Twitter and the right-wing blogosphere of a woman standing in the nude at an art exhibition attended by a bunch of teenagers. I do not want to embed this photo, as it includes nudity.. Here is where I saw it: Kane:…
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Did Esurance put up a billboard saying "Cover your home in a dick"?

This tweet has been making the rounds about the dangers of bad kerning: Supposedly the letters "c" and "l" are run together so that "click" looks like "dick" instead. I call shenanigans. Surely someone noticed the problem while the sign was going…
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?

Christie's is a famous auction house. In their press release and marketing material, Christie's Voyage to Another World: The Victor Martrin-Malburet Photograph Collection, you can find the following claims Lot 345, The only photograph of Neil…
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Is Queen Elizabeth queuing for a sandwich in this photo?

Found it floating around Facebook with comments praising the queen for behaving like ordinary people. Did the Queen Elizabeth actually queue for a sandwich in this photo? Or something else is happening?
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Does this photo of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall show a ghost?

Are there any ghosts that are captured on photos? More specifically, I'm referring to this famous ghost picture of the Brown Lady of Raynham Hall: I've never heard anyone debunking the myth of this photo, but I think this picture is so famous that…
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Is this "Remove child before washing" clothes label real?

The image below went somewhat viral: It shows a clothes label with the text "Remove child before washing". Is this an actual clothes label of an actual commercially available piece of clothing? Or is it a joke — either through digital photo…
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Can you detect a hidden camera in a trial room/changing room with your phone?

There's this message spreading virally over the internet: Read This Message.....!!!! How to Detect Hidden Camera in Trial Room? In front of the trial room take your mobile and make sure that mobile can make calls........ Then enter into the…
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