Fraud Photos!

This link will explain Fraud photos…

http://bnsfkline.rrpicturearchives.net/archivethumbs.aspx?id=26362

For some strange reason, after reading the original post on this thread, I just can’t seem to stop humming the tune heard several times in the movie “Independence Day” that went something like “IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT…”

(Great movie, by the way).

It appears as though that 1555 number and the white border around it were generated in flat, orthographic view and then pasted onto the side of the engine which is not in flat orthographic view. You can see that the lines of the rectangle are askew to the other nearby lines of seams on the cab etc.

I still like this one, from two years ago.

Help! Murder! Police! Someone call the FBI, the CIA, athe KGB, and the IRS!!![:O] What’s the world coming to ?[;)]

Actually I wonder what could be gained from the mis use of other people’s photos?

Btw I loved the Double DD FP45 image. That is what I would call it with all of those trucks.

Imagine having to run that thing long hood forward!

Easy. Put a tele camera on the EOT. (Drumroll please)

Or imagine the fun that would be had if that were RCO!

Considering that most of the photo sites don’t pay, it can only be for the amusement (and/or some sort of bragging rights) of the person who modifies the picture.

The various photo editing programs bring the veracity of pictures into question more and more often.

On the other hand, maybe someone could put together a 4-8-8-8-8-4 “Super Big Boy”. Just for fun, of course…

I always wondered how long it would be before someone did this. It’s not even a very desirable picture.

Realistically, there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

I imagine next, we’ll have a thread about someone stealing someone’s photo, changing the number, and still getting rejected by a photo website![:-,][(-D]

Imagine That!

That’s just wrong![soapbox]

What I find amusing[(-D] is that the fraud is so obvious[B)]. Besides the poorly done paste-up job, didn’t this person consider that only a railfan would look at it and railfans always research their subjects. How long did it take to spot the fraud? Not long I’m sure.

I agree with PZ; there’s not much that can be done about it, However, I don’t think any self-respecting photo site would want to be caught with such a photograph, especially one that’s purported to be reality.

On the other hand, anyone who thinks that the UP unit pictured is real (and there are people who were so duped!)…well, there’s little that can be said for them.

Along those lines, check this out:

http://karenparker.net/PixelMagic/pixelmagic.htm

I have to say that it is interesting what somebody can do to a picture and make it look real. That’s why Photoshop is so cool. Though, doing this to somebody else’s picture…and trying to post it on a railroad picture website is not good - everyone’s right, any railfan who does his reasearch would know it is a fraud.

Some one sure had a lot of time on their hands. Thanks for sharing Carl.

It’s done for bragging rights. It’s all about ego.

On the photo site that I help administer, we are dealing with 3 separate cases right now involving copyright violations, as well as out and out stealing of photos. It gets tiring after awhile because people just have to do it to impress someone. The downside is, we’ll never stop it, and we have, I am sure, uncovered only a small portion of the stealing. With over 14,000 members, and well over 400,000 images on the site, I am sure there are others waiting to be found out.

We even had one member take a copy of Van Gogh’s “The Book”, and alter it digitally in PhotoShop, and then post it as his own work. He had downloaded a copy of the painting from the website of a firm that specialized in printing copies of great works of art, and they had an online catalog, and that is where this person stole the picture of the painting. Some people are really quite shameless, and think nothing of stealing another’s work.

i read about that image. apparently it’s a famous image of the edited type.

the unit’s name is the DDDDP45

I agree that there isn’t a lot you can do. If you post your pix on the net, you should assume that they’ll be stolen. Best you can do is contact the site administrator and have them remove the picture. There are legal options, but from what I’ve read, it’s usually not worth the hassle. I’ve thought about it for my shots taken at the 2005 LPGA US Open, because shots like these have been stolen A LOT:

So far I’ve decided that it isn’t worth my time.