Editor's Note from the L.A. Times: A photograph used on the front page found to be altered; photographer dismissed.
What I find fascinating about this is that I examined the merged photo for some time without seeing the duplicated person. Perhaps the cover image actually used in the paper had higher resolution permitting easier detection. I did find an artifact amazingly like a stitching error just to the right of the British soldier's left shin (As a result of correcting stitching errors in thousands of my own panoramas, my eye tends to gravitate to stitching artifacts very quickly).
You may need to magnify the blended image to 200% to better see the artifacts of the photographer's Photoshop efforts.
Secondly, some "alteration of reality" occurs in the majority of panoramic images composed of multiple overlapping exposures, since each exposure occurs at a different moment in time. The final panoramic image is a unique creation--practically half-movie and half single-shot-in-time. Hence I would say that multi-shot news panoramas must be held to a different standard than single shots.
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