It is tight, but I think his arm is just far enough away for the shadow from the fish head to pass under it.
Photoshopped? need pro opinions
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Love all the internet detectives coming out of the woodwork.
Put it this way - I very much doubt any of you are qualified to comment on the authenticity of this image and are confusing common tells with something that could actually occur in a regular photograph or through compression being saved/resized or otherwise.
I mess around with and use Photoshop for my graphical work, I would not even begin to attempt to prove this image fake or not because there is nothing THAT obvious enough to give it away.
Put it this way - I very much doubt any of you are qualified to comment on the authenticity of this image and are confusing common tells with something that could actually occur in a regular photograph or through compression being saved/resized or otherwise.
I mess around with and use Photoshop for my graphical work, I would not even begin to attempt to prove this image fake or not because there is nothing THAT obvious enough to give it away.
Your appear to be right actually, the shadow of the building on the left has the sun in a different direction to the shadow cast by the front fin on his shirt.
Edit: Unless that shadow on his shirt is actually water *dunno*
We're in GD, where speculation is key
.I'm nowhere near qualified to tell if it's photoshopped, but I enjoy analyzing the image as much as anyone elese!
Not an expert but I've done a fair amount of photography and photoshopping... theres enough in the image to raise a good level of suspicion amongst other things look at the left hand guys jeans at the bottom left, the edge looks jagged in a cut out kind of way, the shadow in the fishes mouth potentially isn't quite at the right angle, there is a vertical "dirty" line just below the right elbow (the elbow holding the fish) parallel to the t-shirt and jeans that doesn't appear quite perspectively correct to be on the decking behind, something appears to have been removed from the water just above the fish with several repeated patterns that are over 80% the same.
The low resolution and high compression makes it difficult to tell (FB image?). If you happen to know them ask them to show a higher resolution image if possible. A fake image can be made to look real simply by lowering the resolution since it hides the the lighting anomalies more.
This is what I'm taking about, the shadows cast by the guys hand on his shoulder and the fish's fin are consistent in terms of light source, but totally different to the one cast by the building in the background, which if it was consistent with the first two shouldn't be visible as it would be hidden behind the building.
It's Salford quays, not enclosed.
Quick look on google earth shows that pier where it should be as well.
It looks off to me. looking at it on my phone only though.
The fish just looks too "cut and paste". Like there was no feathering done, just straight magic wand.
EDIT.... Also the guys hand is MASSIVE.
The fish just looks too "cut and paste". Like there was no feathering done, just straight magic wand.
EDIT.... Also the guys hand is MASSIVE.
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Probably better to go by the small pole sticking out from the beefeater building.
It does seem like the shadows dont match up with the guys. I'm certain they're holding that fish.
It's hard to get a perspective of where exactly the sun would be.
edit; I still think the shadows are fine. The sun on that building is coming from above, not the side. It's probably behind and above the photographer.
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I'm inclined to think it's over his left shoulder for the building and over his right for the two guys though, it just doesn't line up as it should, as you point out there looks like a flag pole or something sticking out the Beefeater building which has a shadow that matches the one the building casts, but not the two guys.
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This is what I'm taking about, the shadows cast by the guys hand on his shoulder and the fish's fin are consistent in terms of light source, but totally different to the one cast by the building in the background, which if it was consistent with the first two shouldn't be visible as it would be hidden behind the building.
That could be explained if an external flash was used, although i don't know why it would in such bright sunlight...
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Wheres the water? The fish looks really dry and so does his t-shirt. I'd expect water to be dripping or at least a soaked t-shirt.
As a side note, is he an amputee?
EDIT: There's also no shadow, a fish of that size would clearly show a shadow behind them.
As a side note, is he an amputee?
EDIT: There's also no shadow, a fish of that size would clearly show a shadow behind them.
That would be consistent with the buildings in the background as well, which, looking at the rest, would be consistent with all the shadows.
Sun reasonably high and to the left of the photographers shoulder.
That would make the building shadow look like that, it would make the top of the guys hand be in sunlight but because of the high angle a shadow forms under the hand, same with the fish, a small shadow under the fish on the T-Shirt. It's because the sun is still pretty high that makes it look a bit odd, rather than the sun being just behind his shoulder.
The question I have is why would they transfer the two guys out of one place and into another, then stick a fish into their hands... Why not just go there and take a photo!? Cutting round them (even with the magic wand tool) that cleanly would be a very skilled job, even for a photo like that, then adding the fish... Just wayyy too much work for such little reward (especially if you could just take the picture of the two guys on the pier in the first place).
The shadows are being cast downwards. Google image search people holding pike, you can't see their arm/hand in a lot of them because of the way you hold it.
Efour2, just give us some more info please? You can't post a thread and just leave it.
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