> Orchid XP v8<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>> On 03/12/2011 09:51 PM, Gilles Tran wrote:
>>> http://blogs.reuters.com/fullfocus/2011/11/21/best-photos-of-the-year-2011/#a=97
>>
>> Is it wrong that this looks fake to me?
>>
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> Yes it looks like a fake a bit, or better like a rendering done with some
> autodesk software. the professional softwares seems to seduce their users to a
> certain style of images which seems to be the case here. But I say it seems to
> be the case. If you look very close at the "life" picture from 2011 you will
> find no repetitions in the windows, the balconies or other objects. So if it is
> really a rendering - even with professional software - the author had done a lot
> of effort to awoid this impression. May be he did, cause I have my problems to
> believe his "Big Brother"-story, but I'm living in Germany and not in Korea. I
> noticed a certain degree of perspective distortion but no focal blur. This
> speaks for a rendering, but by the 800 ASA the photographer claimed to have used
> this could be due to the graininess of his material. So I cannot judge, but the
> similarity in concept to the picure of Genady Obukov is really striking.
>

Here's where the shot was taken:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=hotel+koryo,+pyongyang&hl=fr&ie=UTF8&ll=39.007404,125.738783&spn=0.004018,0.006539&sll=39.025652,125.757666&sspn=0.064278,0.104628&vpsrc=6&hq=hotel+koryo,&hnear=P%27y%C5%8Fngyang,+Pyongyang,+Cor%C3%A9e+du+Nord&t=h&z=18

Hotel Koryo (where most foreigners get to stay) is the reddish brown 
tower in the upper left, and the building with Kim Il-Sung's portrait is 
to the south east of there, just north of the green appartment building 
with a blue roof.  Unfortunately, The Great Leader's portrait is on the 
wall we can't see.

What surprised me about this picture is that he was allowed to take a 
Canon 5D Mark II to North Korea.  Up until a few years ago, you weren't 
allowed anything that had a zoom and were limited to 1GB memory cards, 
to prevent spying or smuggling in propaganda.

Anyone who wants to learn a little more about life in the DPRK should 
check out Eric Lafforgue or Kernbeiser's photostreams on Flickr.
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