All those pictures are HEAVILY processed, through either photoshop or NASA composite software.
If any pictures are real, it would be the ones taken in the 1960s. No such thing as digital manipulation back then. It would have to go through a similar process of the visual effects model work like the films back then.
Even then it would ALL have to be done in camera, no compositing or rotoscoping at all. It would break the illusion and there would be more film grain, and jagged edges of the matte for the composite. Depending on what film would be used for photographing too. Still imagery is much easier to fake than motion photography.
Kodak had some government contracts with the NRO for the Gambit and Hexagon satellites back in the day, so it wouldn't be too far fetched that they would work with government in faking imagery even back then. But one thing, the Soviets would call us out on our BS if a lot of our space program was faked.
I think to a degree there is faking of the missions, but it would be of much greater value to just keep what we are doing a secret instead of totally faking every damn thing that is done in public.
I've seen so many rocket launches, been in clean rooms, hung out with engineers and astronauts that worked and continue to work on these projects. I've seen so many satellites upfront. No, that shit is NOT faked. What they do may be classified but the hardware is VERY real and it does something that we are not in the know.
PDF Link to the NRO and Kodak:
All those pictures are HEAVILY processed, through either photoshop or NASA composite software.
If any pictures are real, it would be the ones taken in the 1960s. No such thing as digital manipulation back then. It would have to go through a similar process of the visual effects model work like the films back then.
Even then it would ALL have to be done in camera, no compositing or rotoscoping at all. It would break the illusion and there would be more film grain, and jagged edges of the matte for the composite. Depending on what film would be used for photographing too. Still imagery is much easier to fake than motion photography.
Kodak had some government contracts with the NRO for the Gambit and Hexagon satellites back in the day, so it wouldn't be too far fetched that they would work with government in faking imagery even back then. But one thing, the Soviets would call us out on our BS if a lot of our space program was faked.
I think to a degree there is faking of the missions, but it would be of much greater value to just keep what we are doing a secret instead of totally faking every damn thing that is done in public.
I've seen so many rocket launches, been in clean rooms, hung out with engineers and astronauts that worked and continue to work on these projects. I've seen so many satellites upfront. No, that shit is NOT faked. What they do may be classified but the hardware is VERY real and it does something that we are not in the know.