Calling all UBER photochoppers: The continuance of one big prank, directed by ATOT.

[Savarak]

Originally posted by: WraithETC

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg


This one is pretty good, If I took a glance at it I probably would be fooled.

try to get the whiteness under his shirt on the left side out... and get more detail between and around the fingers... needs a bit more brightness on left side face and shirt shadowing to match the stage lights from foreground(see how bright the lady is?)... otherwise pretty realistic...

 

[ultimatebob]

These are getting pretty good. Hell, the guy in the Hawaiian shirt holding the camera looks more out of place in these newer pictures than Azurik does.

 

[turunturun]

Thus SOM's cat....!

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: Savarak

Originally posted by: WraithETC

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg


This one is pretty good, If I took a glance at it I probably would be fooled.

try to get the whiteness under his shirt on the left side out... and get more detail between and around the fingers... needs a bit more brightness on left side face and shirt shadowing to match the stage lights from foreground(see how bright the lady is?)... otherwise pretty realistic...

I think this is a winner... only thing I'm suspicious about is the fingers in his left hand... it needs some more color or tone.

 

[turunturun]

Yeah thats true pentium guy. The left hand is suspicious when compared to most the other nearby skin on the other subjects. Maybe I will shop it up a bit more later tonight, but when I submitted the image I was thinking I would give it a go and that's that. No tweaking for days, since you can spend the rest of your life tweaking photosplices. And surely if the newscast info tag cut it for OPs last image trickery most of these posts would do fine.....!

 

[UpgradeFailure]

I think my last update

 

[sswingle]

When will the voting start?

 

[OCNewbie]

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

This one is good, the shoes are just about perfect I think, as is most everything up to the face/head. The head and face look a tad grainy to me compared to the other people in the pic, and the lighting on the face doesn't look right either. Very close to believable though IMO.

 

[Cal166]

Took this one from virtualgames0 with some added effects:
uberphotochop3a.jpg

 

[sash1]

Originally posted by: turunturun
Here is another option for you OP. There have been some entertaining posts, this one is a serious attempt.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

definitely the winner, just a few shadow problems. very believeable

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: UpgradeFailure
I think my last update

Look at the feet, they look like they are not touching the ground.

 

[AStar617]

(/me pulls pin, lobs grenade, and ducks back to the beer-stocked lawnchair in the trench :laugh: )

 

[eits]

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
By Kyanzes the unready:

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haha so far, these are the only ones that made me laugh.

 

[sswingle]

Originally posted by: eits

Originally posted by: Kyanzes
By Kyanzes the unready:

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haha so far, these are the only ones that made me laugh.

Which is good, because that was not the point of the thread. Carry on.

 

[SP33Demon]

Update on winner?

 

[Yanagi]

Don't syringer us now

 

[honkee]

Originally posted by: sash1

Originally posted by: turunturun
Here is another option for you OP. There have been some entertaining posts, this one is a serious attempt.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

definitely the winner, just a few shadow problems. very believeable

cant believe i read through this whole thread, but thats the best one.

 

[Cattlegod]

so who won?

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: sash1

Originally posted by: turunturun
Here is another option for you OP. There have been some entertaining posts, this one is a serious attempt.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

definitely the winner, just a few shadow problems. very believeable

definately, just shrink the OP and it will look like the real thing. Right now the lady in the foreground is the same size as Az, but she is much closer to the camera.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

Originally posted by: gotsmack

Originally posted by: sash1

Originally posted by: turunturun
Here is another option for you OP. There have been some entertaining posts, this one is a serious attempt.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

definitely the winner, just a few shadow problems. very believeable

definately, just shrink the OP and it will look like the real thing. Right now the lady in the foreground is the same size as Az, but she is much closer to the camera.

Right, also the fact that asians aren't very tall in stature brings that out...

 

[LumbergTech]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

Originally posted by: JoeFahey

Originally posted by: Faulkner05

Originally posted by: turunturun
Here is another option for you OP. There have been some entertaining posts, this one is a serious attempt.

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/5684/shopjobth2.jpg

Not bad... I think this is the only one so far that wouldn't make me suspicious with just a glance.

Best one yet IMO.

Very good lighting.

i dont really dont see how you couldnt tell..it looks like the color has been sucked out of these people

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: UpgradeFailure
A little more work

The lighting on this is GREAT and the color matches too... the big problem is the shoes. You can tell he's not standing there, I suggest hiding his feet by hiding them behind the lady!

Yup, looks good but he's 'sharper' than the target picture. Some unsharpen + more contrast and then put him in the picture.

It's easy to say and I have NO CLUE how to do that.

 

[FrustratedUser]

I am not claiming the prize for this one since I took turunturun's picture and just applied a very small amount of filtering to it.
Give credit where credit is due - I just modded his work and it took 2 secs.

shopjobth2 + FU mods.

 

[OCNewbie]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
shopjobth2 + FU mods.

Looks quite good, whatever you did makes him look more like he belongs in the pic.

 

[turunturun]

thanks for the credit frustrateduser. If it wins hopefully we can agree on where to go in the concierge's private jet.

as for the scale of our OP in the photo: relative to the female on the right of the photograph - I think if you look closer you will notice that her legs don't end where her pants stop. A good bit of her leg extends out (capri pants) and you can see a sliver of her shoe to the left of the very foreground female's tricep. This makes her about 20% taller than our OP and judging by her face and build is not likely as tall as OP.
For scale (and focal point) I was using the heavy set gentleman in the blue in the center of the photographers gallery. He is about 5 feet in front of the position of OP and certainly taller (although OP never provided his height we presume he is in the 5"-8" range) and considering that, OP is sized correctly.
I do agree with the criticism that the OPs left hand is fishy looking, but again, if the tagline graphic in the news anchor image fooled our target last time I think this little shortcoming with slip right under the radar.
Since photo manipulation can become a bottomless pit of tweaking and second guessing, I intended to give it one pass, and thats that.
Thanks for everyone's good feedback.