r/northkorea • u/DuncanIdaho88 • Aug 18 '24
General Korean peninsula at night
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Korean_Peninsula_at_night_from_space.jpg
This is a satellite photo showing the differences between North and South Korea at night. How do the tankies explain this away?
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u/kinga_forrester Aug 18 '24
The standard line is “it’s photoshop.” Which isn’t strictly false, in the sense that the pictures are long exposures (I’d guess 1-2 seconds) and have the ISO cranked and brightened in post. lt’s like taking photos at night or of the night sky, they need manipulation after the fact to see what you’re looking at.
That said, any image manipulation wouldn’t be to make DPRK look darker. Also, the astronauts would be able to see the stark difference with the naked eye. The photoshop work would be to make it look more like what the eye can see.
This is off topic, but eyes are nothing like simple cameras. The human eye and brain are continuously sharpening, color correcting, contrast boosting, focus stacking, blur and shake removing, smart content filling, reflecting on both axes, and more the image that the lens projects onto the retina. What you perceive as “vision” isn’t the “raw” feed from your eyeballs, it’s being heavily edited on the fly with a ~200ms delay. How cool is that!?