The Photojournalist Who Fooled the World with Bad CGI

[@2darki]

Hey, I just want to give you a quick tip: If you go to the panel in blender on the very right at 16:56 and go to the section "Film" and the tick the box "Transparent", you can export the picture as a png with transparency and don't need to use green screen! Also you should look up some tutorials about shadow catchers! Love your videos and hope you keep making them!

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks for the tips!

[@AbimaelOrtiz]

You're a very good storyteller.

[@dannyb.5139]

I think my favorite example of altered images has to be the kent state photo where the editors removed a pole so the image was less distracting. Also, to improve your shadow catcher, select the plane and go to the orange tab, or the properties tab. Select visibility and check off shadow catcher. This should render the plane transparent but still render the shadow.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks for the tip!

[@BrettCarstens]

Fascinating. Well done storytelling and presentation. And the depth you go to to demonstrate imitation is outstanding. Thanks for putting these together.

[@IsaacRodriguezSTLife]

At this point I think most of the people are aware of the use of photoshop on social media, but this is next level, you are creating a fake narrative that could make a hole country panic, but I must say is pretty cool. Great video!!

[@-grey]

It seems that the problem isn't computer generated fakery, it's artistic institutions which scrutinse the validity of small creators and let large ones coast by on their name alone to sell the intentionality of their work. He didn't bullshit anyone as much as the art critique industry bullshitted everyone for him, by letting him get away with nonsense in place of meaning because it's good publicity to be associated with the branding power of his name.

[@TamalPlays]

true true

[@Broken_robot1986]

Pretty amazing he pulled it off, but you know it had to make it awkward for him at future shows.

[@stinkystealthysloth]

I've been aware of this project for years but never knew what it was about, thanks for sharing.

[@FrJeffReich]

I love your work and am hooked on your videos. Great work! I have one burning question- do you remember the font you used in this video? I can't figure it out.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks! It's Euphorigenic.

[@noaneill]

Just came across your channel last night. Instantly subscribed after a couple videos. Fantastic content. Such a great resource. Thank you.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks!

[@kingpossie]

Didn’t know about this hoax - reminds me of the Sokal hoax in 1996 exposing the post/modern literary snobs.

[@atrociousdex8767]

This just showed up on my recommended, good video

[@digeratadesign]

Very interesting. You have good content. Most 3d apps let you export masks [occlusion] layers and with your guy and shadow as seperate layers, you can really dial in light transparency.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Nice, good to know!

[@digeratadesign]

@@ImitativePhotography just in case you're going into the fake news business : )

[@ImitativePhotography]

@@digeratadesign not likely 😂

[@oneeyedphotographer]

@@digeratadesign There are fake news, and alternative reality. Film makers do the latter all the time, mostly without intent to deceive. This is a whole new level, within hours of Trump boasting of this sexual misdeeds those fake news sites could have had dozens of distraught women with their sad tales. Or, what if Britain had decided not to settle in North America, they'd left it to the French?

[@webcss]

Wow! Frightening, to say the least. Well done. Great channel, stumbled in with the video about olga karlovac and became a follower immediately.👍

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks!

[@Naqvioski]

Absolutely in love with your videos.

[@allanosantiago5955]

Thank you for sharing, and great attempt to replicate the technique. Jonas for me was indeed clever but that proves to show that even great institutions, become lax in their ability to properly filter photo entrees, especially when they are someone who are known or tagged by the same institutions as credible. They must and should never always put their guards down when evaluating these photos. It only shows, they have became sloppy with their credibility in careful evaluation over the years, that these institutions have been well known for. Sad to say.

[@sydtopia1]

Great video. I am surprised that I have never heard about this until I saw your video. Picture is good, however shadow gives it away however. Just need to ruff it up a bit and probably would not have even noticed.

[@ImitativePhotography]

True, it seems many see the shadow as the "smoking gun". Thanks for watching!

[@martylevenson7062]

Good in-depth job - thank you!

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks for watching!

[@keithjack9850]

Interesting fresh content thank you

[@erikfuglseth953]

An interesting and scary followup on what Bediksen shines the light on.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks for watching!

[@roccobot]

Why the virtual green screen though? Isn't Blender capable of exporting a PNG with transparency?

[@ImitativePhotography]

Yes, see the pinned comment. I just didn't know any better at the time as it was my first time using Blender.

[@Limbic1000]

Awesome work..wooow

[@jimphilpott902]

I am afraid of this brave new world!

[@mrirurfkjsdo]

3D is not your job so you missed some points, specially about the shadows, as you never export a shadow like this.... but dude, your vid is interesting and good about Bendiksen and his work ! Thx !

[@ImitativePhotography]

Thanks for watching!

[@Elloyuetm]

🔥

[@Nerdzombiedisco]

Excellent video. Well done. I am not a bot. LOL

[@ImitativePhotography]

😂😂😂

[@donnabennett3250]

How is it possible that people don't know about fake images 29 years after the first Jurassic Park movie was released? Talk about a slow learning curve. Do you ever feel like the art world is lagging far behind the rest of the world?

[@ImitativePhotography]

Yeah, it's crazy... seems like they are in a bubble.

[@markgopaulsingh6193]

What a menace to society that Dennis!

[@ImitativePhotography]

😂

[@DanielleDeutschTV]

Isn’t a menace only a menace if they don’t attempt to reveal themselves? Really nice execution of this story… But it reminded me of why I need to get back to film at some point (I miss the darkroom). Any manipulation or abstractness has some level of truth in the grains that make it up. ❤️

[@ImitativePhotography]

@@DanielleDeutschTV well said, thanks!

[@cyrilstheone]

There's no chance in hell i would go through all this faff for images 😁 i can only be bothered to do basic edits in PS. The less i spend on PS the better i feel 😁

[@Ziqver]

Instagram is full of these type. I even stopped following one of the famous ones, who even got rich by doing this type of crap. I use blender my self, but I don't buy stuff. I make it my self.

[@TamalPlays]

today is 28-02-23 and now you don't need to do 3d modeling for these kinds of things.

[@ImitativePhotography]

Yep the methods in this video are outdated by now.

[@williamboyd1816]

Only accept film photography with a physical negatives. Yeah a person can manipulate the image by dodging and burning in the darkroom but that is about it. There problem solved.

[@evocati6523]

The industry is not going back to film, that's ridiculous. It's hard enough to even buy new film stock these days even if you wanted to

[@williamboyd1816]

Expensive but not hard, I can get all the film I can shoot and I live in the middle of nowhere. This is a common excuse. The fact is digital is just more convenient for photojournalist, however these news agency should at least require them to send in the RAW file of each shot along with any TIFF or JPEG submission as proof of the pre-production shot.

[@lazarpivarev7337]

First of Veles is not god, he is the ancestor spirit nor is Perun god nor Jarilo and so on they are personification of nature Perun is thunder, Jarilo sun,..etc I don't know about validity of scripture but that is our mythology and old religion which customs and holidays are preserved in Serbian orthodox church. Everything is just Christianised, Saint Sava is now what Veles used to be. Spirit protector of the house is Saint protector of the house and so on.... You can't just shi* on our tradition like that.