Thursday, October 2, 2008

Re photo-processing of the "data's head"

Expat claim on his blog that the photo of the "data's head" that Richard C. Hoagland present to the public on his website and on the DM book is a fraud, I did my own research. And this is the result:


What I did to the photo:

1. open in Adobe Photoshop CS2

2. crop the photo

3. duplicate the layer

4. Image/adjustments/ hue/saturation and increase the value of saturation to +72

5. duplicate the layer and change the layer to color burn and put the opacity to 50%

This is a rough and quick enhancement of the "data's head" that I've done on the "AS17-137-21000HR" image.

So, expat....can you see the red line on the "mouth" area now?

Richard C. Hoagland processing was found NOT to be fraudulent!

9 comments:

Atareye said...

http://theaccidentalalchemist.blogspot.com/2009/02/moon-robot-investigation-dark-mission.html

expat said...

I'm obliged to you for your detailed account of the "processing" of this image. I have two questions:

1] What was the original source of this image? The low-res image from the web, or the NASA archive neg (as mine was)?

2] Why would you consider that such drastic color enhancement provides a truer result than simply sharpening the original?

Sphinx said...

@ expat

1.I take the image from:

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-137-21000HR.jpg

2. well..I don't consider a drastic color enhancement but this is the result.
Richard C Hoagland DID NOT put the red color on the "data's head"
The red color is there.
I can say for sure that is a robot head or not but you can't say that Richard fake the photo.
It is a robot head?
I don't know.
Could be.
Could be not.
But is quite symmetrical, don't you agree?

expat said...

>>But is quite symmetrical, don't you agree?<<

To the extent that the two dark depressions that Hoagland and Bara would mistakenly call "yes" are symmetrical about the mid-line, yes. That has no special meaning, however.

So the original of your work was the 1 MB reduction off the web. Do you understand that the NASA archive neg I worked from was a 46MB tiff??????

Whose image do you think would give a truer result?

Sphinx said...

Expat can you please link for me the adress for the AS17-137-21000HR.tiff so I can downloaded?

Thank you!

expat said...

Sorry, you have to purchase it. Start here.

Sphinx said...

Darn!

Well..what can I say...thx..
I might buy it if the cost is not...astronomical.

expat said...

>>Richard C Hoagland DID NOT put the red color on the "data's head"
The red color is there.<<

Just take a look, in your color-enhanced image, at the moon surface. Disregard the rock-that-looks-vaguely-like-a-skull for a moment. All those reds and greens. If you think that's a true representation of what the surface of the moon looks like, better look around for a nice cozy loony-bin because that's where you're headed, my friend...

Sphinx said...

HA! HA! HA!

..."cozy loony-bin"...

You're really a funny guy!
I like that.
If I look closely is something "red" even on the eyebrow.

Now, seriously, you may have a point but that color, the red one, is not so important.
The thing is that on that boulder, data's head, meteorite...you name it, on the "mouth" area is a diff color then the rest.
Could be yellow, orange, green.
I don't care.
That is what I believe.
For me is obvious.

..."cozy loony-bin"...

:)))