RITphoto News: Altered Image Contest

Is winter real or not? 🙂   Winter break will soon be over and on Tuesday January 16, 2018, the spring semester begins. It is remarkable how fast times passes. We thought it would be fun to share an interesting project Prof Christye Sisson and Ted Kinsman are working on. Thanks for staying in touch with our community.

In October, the Photographic Sciences department in conjunction with PAR Government Systems produced the Altered Image Contest. The objective was to look at images in a new way. Are they real news or fake images? RIT is part of a large multi-university project to create a tool to detect fake images. Part of that project is to generate manipulated images designed to look like the real thing – images intended to fool and represent fiction as fact.

The contest was designed to attract student talent for media manipulation from School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, School of Media Sciences, School of Film and Animation, and other students within the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at RIT.

April Lau had what it took to make the best fake! The @ritsofa student won #RIT’s Altered Image Contest for creating the best manipulated photo that looks like the real thing. Lau received an iPad Pro for her efforts in the competition that was open to #RITcias students. Noah Mesh and Han Nguyen were awarded honorable mention distinctions.

The top two images were used to produce the final image displayed immediately above. Pretty impressive what a skilled electronic image re-toucher can accomplish!

Below is Lau with Christye Sisson, @ritphotoscieces program chair and contest chair, and Mark Kozak of PAR Government Systems.