Posted: 6/5/2005 8:23:48 AM EDT
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"How big is an adult horseshoe crab? A mature male ranges from 7–9 inches across the helmet-like prosoma, with an overall length, from head to tail, of 13–16 inches long. Mature females typically are much larger than the males, ranging from 9–12 inches across the widest part of the shell and 16–20 inches long. " Link |
Obviously a photoshop based simply on the size of the horseshoe crab. The shadow is in the wrong place, anyway. It should be connecting the end of the pole with the shadow of the holder on the dock. The shadow on the water is phisically impossible. Nice try, though. |
Shadow of the pole on the water is fake and just plain stupid, of whoever did this hack chop job..... It's completely in the WRONG place. So fake, it's laughable, not to mention it's WAY out of contrast, and doesn't even look CLOSE to the real shadow's darkness below. Look at the REAL shadow his body makes on the walk, below him in the pic. THAT is where the shadow of the pole SHOULD be as well. It's as cheesy as can possibly be, the sun just doesn't make TWO shadows of the same object, in different places, at two different darknesses. It's physically impossible. I can't believe people actually think these things are real.....  Ohh, and a STINGRAY ?!  Stingray = a FISH.....  Horsheshoe Crab = A crab (crustacean, same as shrimp, lobster, prawn, crayfish, etc)  |
There is a shadow of the pole comming from the shadow of the person, there is also a reflection of the person and the pole. I think everyone is lookinga t the reeflection as the shadow. The shadow actually looks like it is right, it just fades off in the water though, which can and does happen. |
You folks ain't never been around water, have ya? 
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Um.. guys commenting on the fakeness of the picture, specifically the guy holding the pole. That "really fake, out of contrast shadow" isn't his shadow, it's his reflection. The shadow is below the reflection and is correct. The picture looks like the only thing Photoshopped in is the horseshoe crab. |
Nahhh.... just LIVED about 5 minutes away from it, all my life, when not on boats I've fixed, or owned by friends  Lookie and learn.........   I won't bother mentioning that when water REALLY reflects something, it reflects the COLOR of it too, not some arbitrary color. Guy = blue & white / Blob = brown.......... Hmmm  You figger it out 
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YOu said it so much better than me... |
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Haha, nice. But yeah, some of you are looking at the wrong thing. The only part you need to Photoshop is the section with the crab in it. It's a matter of getting a good image, resizing it and pretty much just pasting him in. From there you use whatever masks, blurs and other blending effects that will allow him to "blend in." It's a very good Photoshop image, the only thing obvious about it being fake is the fact that we already know it's impossible. Besides, what's so hard to believe about tiny men?h.gif |
At the right angles under the right lighting conditions, you can determine color...but can the camera? ETA - with that bottom so close to the surface right there, that would have a tendancy to alter the color as it appears to either the naked eye or a camera, I'd think. |
Trust me, it's chopped in....... I got no reason to waste my time arguing that it is, if I wasn't sure. The brown blob has absolutely NO specular highlights, as would appear in an exposure of sun reflecting off water..... The rest of the water DOES have them. The brown blob is one uniform color, And the camera WOULD have picked up the reflection of color IF that was his actual reflection... It WOULD appear blue... NOT doodie brown. It's blatantly fake, anyone with knowledge of photo manipulation would see it right off. Only reason I'm so convinced is a close friend of my family's DOES photo retouching and such for a living. He taught me how to use, and gave me my very first airbrush when I was a kid. That and when my mother was alive back then, she worked for two different photographers, and I ended up helping one at weddings when I was a teenager for a while. I learned to pick up on things like this back then. I've actually done some photo manip. myself, over the years.... I know what to look for as far as changes in the pixelization levels due to poor control of the images DPI, when copied / pasted from & to, as well as unnatural lighting reflections, etc, such as this is... If you choose to believe me or not, is up to you..... Just trying to explain what's wrong and why it sticks out like a sore thumb. (at least to me) Anyways, now I'm REALLY bored, so I'm going to go find something useful to do Arfcom's WAY too quiet to be sitting here this long today, hahaha
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