“Now Jimmy, make sure you wait for a full year of bombing and spend a few thousand dollars adjusting the timing of this satellite to get exactly comparable images so someone on the internet who vaguely heard about manipulative photo techniques, but is fine with ignoring the realities of actually taking the photos, can’t nitpick an image of very clear destruction.”
The differences between 2023 November and 2024 April are due to lighting, and it’s plain to see the buildings are still there even with lighting differences.
Between 2024 April and August nearly everything left of the red line is gone. It’s not some trick of the light or sand - you can clearly see the other buildings right of the line.
You’ve tried to deflect by saying people are missing the point and you agreed there is destruction - but no one said that. They said that your two points, that the destruction was not as bad as the images suggest, and that the images are intentionally misleading are both false.
The image clearly tries to make see like not a single building is left. It’s the intention of this images.
I’m pretty sure there’s a noble intention behind this, but it is misleading, it is propagandistic.
I will provide you a true comparison, similar lightning, similar time of the year. From september 2023 to september 2024. You’ll clearly see the destruction. It’s nothing shy. There’s a lot of destruction. But my images will not exaggerate reality.
There you don’t have to really look into what buildings are still up or not, as it is quite evident in the images what was destroyed to the ground. Even with far worse resolution the portrayal of reality is, IMO, infinity better.
And the fact that in 5 minutes, with public resources and from my phone I can create this image that is less propagandistic that the image of the post, is, again IMHO, another evidence on why the image from the post have a higher propagandistic value that informative value.
“Now Jimmy, make sure you wait for a full year of bombing and spend a few thousand dollars adjusting the timing of this satellite to get exactly comparable images so someone on the internet who vaguely heard about manipulative photo techniques, but is fine with ignoring the realities of actually taking the photos, can’t nitpick an image of very clear destruction.”
EDIT: And let’s just drive this home: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/08/27/satellite-imagery-shows-vast-destruction-in-rafah/
The differences between 2023 November and 2024 April are due to lighting, and it’s plain to see the buildings are still there even with lighting differences.
Between 2024 April and August nearly everything left of the red line is gone. It’s not some trick of the light or sand - you can clearly see the other buildings right of the line.
You’ve tried to deflect by saying people are missing the point and you agreed there is destruction - but no one said that. They said that your two points, that the destruction was not as bad as the images suggest, and that the images are intentionally misleading are both false.
And they are both false.
The image clearly tries to make see like not a single building is left. It’s the intention of this images.
I’m pretty sure there’s a noble intention behind this, but it is misleading, it is propagandistic.
I will provide you a true comparison, similar lightning, similar time of the year. From september 2023 to september 2024. You’ll clearly see the destruction. It’s nothing shy. There’s a lot of destruction. But my images will not exaggerate reality.
There you don’t have to really look into what buildings are still up or not, as it is quite evident in the images what was destroyed to the ground. Even with far worse resolution the portrayal of reality is, IMO, infinity better. And the fact that in 5 minutes, with public resources and from my phone I can create this image that is less propagandistic that the image of the post, is, again IMHO, another evidence on why the image from the post have a higher propagandistic value that informative value.
… that looks like even more was destroyed…