Jamie I’d say he has good reason to at least suspect a shop job. The message seems just too callous and “meaningful.” The lighting also seem to have some problems. It’s masked by the clouds, but the highlight on the yellow outer casing is towards the rear left, but the sign shows a highlight/shadow combo on the bottom indicating the sun being to the right. The clouds create a lack of shadow, but there seems to be a disconnect there (which would fit with the sign not matching the rest of the photo). I’d consider that damning evidence, unless proved otherwise…the protective casing should be in obvious shadow, based upon the sign. If things were reversed it could be a fill flash issue, but an external flash will be on the left almost universally…unless he has a White Lightning floating over the water somewhere.
Looking at the details there isn’t anything glaring with an insert job, although the border on the right hand side of the door looks a bit thick, perhaps an overzealous clone job.
I see some strange artifacts around the text that aren’t present in the rest of the picture, but that isn’t terribly conclusive. I’ve seen P&S cameras do strange things around text before, because they try to do too much with the signal. But the box around “out of service” is a bit strange. Especially in a city office I think they’d be more likely to just slap text on a sheet of paper, not bother with printing shaded boxes.
Overall I’d put my money on a composite, with no hesitation, if I had to choose a side. Of course, I have real photos that would set off more alarms, and have sold images built from 5+ photos that has fewer question marks. The digital age makes anything possible, and makes it hard to trust your eyes.
It’s not photoshoped. Maybe some idiot just put it in there thinking that it would be funny, but, I mean, that’s a pretty sick joke if you really think about it. What if someone really jumped off of the bridge there?
It’s not photoshoped. Maybe some idiot just put it in there thinking that it would be funny
Possible, but how do you know it’s not a shop job? Did you take the picture, or know who actually did? Or is it just that the image has been floating around for a while, and must be real?
All the exif data has been stripped. Quickly putting up a photo online, even if you take it through a cleanup pass in Photoshop, will retain most of the exif tags. Serious processing for the web (especially taking already available web photos) will strip that data to save space, but I don’t think that’s the case here.
The lighting is just flat out wrong. Look at the blown out highlight on the upper left of the box and on top of the handle. Then look at the crinkle on the botton of the sign with it being brighter on the right than on the left. Let’s see, bright light source on the left rear, and bright light on the right. Plus, the handrail on the right bears absolutely no relationship to either (both of the light sources would have created some sort of shadow there.)
I’ve been trying to be diplomatic, but it would earn a place on the Photoshop Disasters blog if it was a commercial image.
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Definitely photoshopped
BRUTAL…so not funny…sheesh…could you imagine?
“Me” are you an idiot? Are you one of the idiots who runs around and yells “Photoshop!” at everything you see?
I think that is a sign that you should jump.
Jamie I’d say he has good reason to at least suspect a shop job. The message seems just too callous and “meaningful.” The lighting also seem to have some problems. It’s masked by the clouds, but the highlight on the yellow outer casing is towards the rear left, but the sign shows a highlight/shadow combo on the bottom indicating the sun being to the right. The clouds create a lack of shadow, but there seems to be a disconnect there (which would fit with the sign not matching the rest of the photo). I’d consider that damning evidence, unless proved otherwise…the protective casing should be in obvious shadow, based upon the sign. If things were reversed it could be a fill flash issue, but an external flash will be on the left almost universally…unless he has a White Lightning floating over the water somewhere.
Looking at the details there isn’t anything glaring with an insert job, although the border on the right hand side of the door looks a bit thick, perhaps an overzealous clone job.
I see some strange artifacts around the text that aren’t present in the rest of the picture, but that isn’t terribly conclusive. I’ve seen P&S cameras do strange things around text before, because they try to do too much with the signal. But the box around “out of service” is a bit strange. Especially in a city office I think they’d be more likely to just slap text on a sheet of paper, not bother with printing shaded boxes.
Overall I’d put my money on a composite, with no hesitation, if I had to choose a side. Of course, I have real photos that would set off more alarms, and have sold images built from 5+ photos that has fewer question marks. The digital age makes anything possible, and makes it hard to trust your eyes.
Gah, seem is “seems” and photos that has should be “photos that have.” There are probably more grammar mistakes I’ve missed, but it’s late.
It’s not photoshoped. Maybe some idiot just put it in there thinking that it would be funny, but, I mean, that’s a pretty sick joke if you really think about it. What if someone really jumped off of the bridge there?
It’s not photoshoped. Maybe some idiot just put it in there thinking that it would be funny
Possible, but how do you know it’s not a shop job? Did you take the picture, or know who actually did? Or is it just that the image has been floating around for a while, and must be real?
All the exif data has been stripped. Quickly putting up a photo online, even if you take it through a cleanup pass in Photoshop, will retain most of the exif tags. Serious processing for the web (especially taking already available web photos) will strip that data to save space, but I don’t think that’s the case here.
The lighting is just flat out wrong. Look at the blown out highlight on the upper left of the box and on top of the handle. Then look at the crinkle on the botton of the sign with it being brighter on the right than on the left. Let’s see, bright light source on the left rear, and bright light on the right. Plus, the handrail on the right bears absolutely no relationship to either (both of the light sources would have created some sort of shadow there.)
I’ve been trying to be diplomatic, but it would earn a place on the Photoshop Disasters blog if it was a commercial image.