BP photoshopped photos

John and Joe from americablog.com have discovered that BP have doctored photographs on their offical webpage from their Crisis Command Center in Houston, TX, as information to their emergency response after the oil spil. Apparently, BP replaced empty, off-line screens with images from ROVs (remote operated vehicles) in a very sloppy way. For example, white fringes and outlines around a man in the controlroom and around the replaced monitor screen can clearly be seen. Also, BP claimed that the photograph was taken in July 2010. However, the photographs metadata showed that the picture was taken in 2001.

Following the discovery of the manipulated photographs, the Washington Post picked up the story and more people have found evidence of a few more manipulated photographs on BPs webpage. A picture showing whats supposed to be a helicopter flying over a panorama of ships was revealed to be yet another lousy photoshop work.. in the upper left corner, parts of the control tower is visible, fringes of differently colored pixels around a pilots head, and also when examining the helicopter guages it's indicated that the door and ramp are open, and that the parking brake is on.

The photoshop work is really lousy.. and the fact that BP actually confessed to manipulating the images and blames the whole affair on that the photographer took the liberty to enhance the photographs. If the manipulation was done by a professional photographer, at least one would expect the image doctoring would be considerably better than this. One would also expect that the photographer would have his camera set with the correct date and time, since the metadata was so off on the photo from BP's Crisis Command Center.

Is this photoshopping harmless? No, not at all..  in a time where BP, and the whole oil industry in general need to get good PR, BP decides to put up misleading photographs on their website in regards to how they handle the oil leak disaster. Makes one speculate what else they've been manipulating with. The capping, perhaps?