2. my VHS tape and no doubt everyone elses and DVD's look JUST AS GOOD as the screencaps. and they have NOT been tampered with.
You are aware that you can over sharpen video in post production?
When you use the "Unsharp Mask" filter in Photoshop or in post production video software you are affecting the contrast between the edges within the image. The amount of sharpening an image requires is determined by many factors. Resolution of image, final image size, and obviously personal choice. An important factor is the subject of the image.
Take a shot of a beautiful woman for a skin care ad campaign and you would use selective sharpening - the eyes would be sharpened but you'd leave the skin. In fact most beauty images are "blurred" in the skin areas.
Now take a shot of a bodybuilder. We want to make him look as sharp as possible. So we open in Photoshop, use unsharp mask using a fairly high amount, with a wide radius and low threshold. Voila, we've increased the apparent graininess of the skin.
Neither of those images are "fake" but they've been enhanced. Another often used trick by a magazine in the business is to reduce the size of the head for an instant 20lb gain in muscle!
I have my own opinions on whether Ronnie or Dorian was better and they are based on having seen them at their best.
In your opinion, Ronnie is better.
But the photos you produce are not conclusive enough as the lighting, angles etc. is so different in each. Take the blurred shot of Dorian hitting a type of most muscular you posted at the start of this thread. Shoot that under the same conditions as the one of Ronnie and he would look entirely different - just look at the shot I did of him in '93 - Ronnie may still win, and the evidence would be more conclusive.
