Re: Photographic Insanity?

thats obviously photoshopped!! how can u say u dont think so! the pics
are so bad quality and different qualities at that! haha, what forum
was it meant to be one anyway?!?! www.best-hoax-pics.net haha

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tommygrhcp said:

the pics are so bad quality and different qualities at that!

Does photoshop do that to pictures?

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It doesn't make sense to me that the last 3 photos which would obviously
be taken at very small time intervals (guy prepares to leap, guy in
midair, guy lands), are all such varying colours. Surely the camera
would have the exact same white balance etc. settings for all 3 photos

My first conclusion, due to the varying colours is that the photos were
taken at larger time intervals (photographer messing around with
various camera settings) and then upon reviewing, thinking to himself
"hey it'd be cool if I added a jumping guy to this, and tried to trick
my friends with it over email".

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this is real im finding the snopes artical and website now(me taking the
place of gild)

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dan de man said:

'OOOOHH yeah daniel wins'
(http://www.trebuchet.com/articles/grandcanyon/faq.html)

Looks like the same rock, but different people. The guy in your link
doesn't have a camera and looks completely different.

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Well, the one in the link looks much easier. For one, he didn't have a
camera and a tripod. Also, he wasn't wearing flip-flops.
Still crazy, but not nearly as much.

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Those guys are idiots. The experienced climber, with no camera equipment
and presumably the right kind of footwear, much less so. I would
imagine the photographer, unless he was quite high on something, was an
experienced flip-flop rock climber as well.

Jacquie has a book called Death in the Canyon, which we bought when we
went there a couple of years ago. It chronicles all recorded deaths,
since the early expeditions of Europeans down the Colorado River to
tourists taking "one more step back." I'll have to look and see if it
mentions this kind of stuff. It does mention that adults are far more
likely to fall off the edges than kids. I think it's because the kids
are much closer to Road Runner cartoons than their parents are...

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I found the snopes thread http://tinyurl.com/y7hlac

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If he is wearing flip flops, why can't you see his toes? Not to mention
that his shoes appear to have a back on the heel. They look more like
climbing shoes to me.

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I read that whole Snopes messageboard thread. Those guys aren't as smart
as (many of) us. They're complaining about how the light and color are
different between the 1st photo and the other two. Photographer. With
tripod (not casual shooter). Grand Canyon. You shoot the Grand Canyon
at sunrise and sunset. It is clear in the first picture that he's
shooting at sunset (south rim, sunset is to the left). The biggest
print I've ever had made of one of my photos was a Grand Canyon sunset
shot, and I remember that much.

You're not finished shooting your sunset until the sun sets. Not
clouds, not "much later in the day." The sun has set. Sky is a
different color. Rocks are different colors as well. The Grand Canyon's
rocks do all sorts of color variations depending on the light.

Also, these are JPEG images, and have gone through who-knows-how-many
copies and re-compressions before we're seeing them. JPEG compression
changes colors in your images. That's why it usually doesn't work well
to mix JPEG and GIF images in a sliced-up Web design.

By none of this am I suggesting the photos could not be doctored, I
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Naomi said:

So why do you say *OBVIOUSLY* photoshopped? Because the photos are
dramatic and show something dangerous? Or because you can see evidence
in the photos? Please tell.

when i first looked at it i thought hey that could be real and all but
when you actually look at the picture it is fairly obvious its
photoshoped it looks like they lightened the picture picture and then
grabed a picture of another guy with difrent amount pixel per square
inch and threw it in there i do think it is possible and the one guys
website is true but thats just my two cents😉
and the guy jumping does have flip flops^^
😕 also did anyone notice the what looks like a a climbing rope
in the botom right? or mabey just a cactus?

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monkeyman said:

it looks like you type by banging your face into the keyboard....come
on, denomstait? What the hell?

ivan said:

I want a little girl daughter

Brian O. said:

As opposed to a boy daughter?

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IMHO, not fake:

Colour cast is explained by the sunset's effect on the light
temperature. If you assume the guy taking the photo is a pro, he'll
have the camera set to a specific white balance, not 'auto' so the pics
will come out very different depending on the light source, direction
and colour.

Resolution difference is explained by the fact its an e-mail thing, so
every save is losing you jpeg quality. It also looks to me that the
first picture is deliberately taken of the photographer, whereas (due
to background movement) the last 2 are crops from a larger image where
the actual focus was something else, or the photographer didn't have
time to move his focal point before the guy jumped, so he just took it
as it was. Or (as mentioned in the snopes article) the last 2 are from
a video, the first is a still image.

Loose.

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Loosemoose said:

If you assume the guy taking the photo is a pro, he'll have the camera
set to a specific white balance, not 'auto' so the pics will come out
very different depending on the light source, direction and colour.

This is still true if he has it on Auto. The rocks literally change
color between direct setting-sunlight and post-sunset.

Quoted message said:

Resolution difference is explained by the fact its an e-mail thing, so
every save is losing you jpeg quality.

...If it made any sense in the first place. How much "resolution" is
there in an image you're viewing in your web browser? Always exactly
the same, 72ppi. Maybe the guy is thinking the photographer is in
sharper focus than the background (or vice-versa)? That's a function of
shutter speed.

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...the last 2 are crops from a larger image where the actual focus was
something else, or the photographer didn't have time to move his focal
point before the guy jumped, so he just took it as it was.

Yes to the second part, no to the first. Obviously the guy on the rock
was the subject of these photos. The first shot is more of a still
life, with no hurry to get the shot, as nothing's moving. The other two
are action shots. Higher shutter speed required, but in decreasing
light, so possibly a higher ISO, etc. etc. In other words, more reasons
for those two to be less sharp.

I'm still trying to figure out why that guy needed to be on that rock,
and not the one behind him. I guess his camera is pointing down in the
first picture, so maybe he didn't want it blocking his picture. What
some people will do to get the shot!

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