BP Fake Oil Spill Photo’s
BP has faced fresh embarrassment in the wake of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill after it admitted to altering a photo on its website that appeared to exaggerate the activity at its command centre in Houston.
The original picture, which was posted over the weekend, shows workers monitoring a bank of 10 giant video screens displaying underwater images. However a few telltale discrepancies on the image attracted the attention of the Americablog website, which has since published new reports of altered images on BP’s website.
Flaws in the editing of the original command centre photograph became evident after Americablog made a close inspection of the images, revealing small areas of white space and overlapping graphics.
Following the Americablog report on Monday, BP posted the original unaltered image and spokesman Scott Dean admitted that two screens were blank in the original picture and that a staff photographer had used Photoshop software to add images.
Dean said the photographer was showing off his Photoshop skills and there was no ill intent.
A screen shot taken from Americablog.com shows a digitally altered image BP posted on its website.
A screen shot taken from Americablog.com shows a digitally altered image BP posted on its website. The company has ordered workers to use Photoshop only for things such as colour correction, cropping and removing glare, he said.
The altered image has since been removed and the company has not yet responded to enquiries about the other images highlighted by the Americablog website.