Real picture or photoshop enhanced ?

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: deftron
Looks like St. Andrews ..


Does the sky there look a bit different than our typical US latitude?
(close to Nordic extended days/nights)


I think it may be Iceland too

I dunno, there's sunsets like that here too.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: newParadigm
IDC, but wherever that pic was or wasn't taken, i want to be there right now with a beautiful woman.

I think we can agree on that.

 

[tfinch2]

chopped

 

[zanieladie]

I think it has been doctored. My vote: FAKE.

 

[destrekor]

so thats it? no confirmation of sorts? sigh i wanna know if i was eight cuz i *totally* think i was

 

[Phlargo]

Originally posted by: HamburgerBoy
Fake, for sure. Why is it that there's a sunset and even still the grass looks like it was taken from a golf course at noon?

this is exactly right - the lighting on the foreground has no relationship with the sky/ambient light.

 

[Slimline]

def. fake

 

[lozina]

Looks like drawn on MS Paint

 

[shamrock1313]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
combination of the too....

....


You mean "two"?



PS.

 

[SparkyJJO]

wow that grass is EXTREMELY green and the sky extremely deep blue :Q

I say CG

 

[JDrake]

Originally posted by: shamrock1313

Originally posted by: Goosemaster
combination of the too....

....


You mean "two"?



PS.

I think it's a combination of the two, too.

 

[destrekor]

http://www.danheller.com/images/FAQ/Tech/Long/img11.html
http://www.lostamerica.com/images/byron/hot.springs.html (look at 35 & 36 specifically)

those are examples of long exposure (and the second link light painting in particular). look at how the ground looks, and remember, these are at dead of night.
take that idea and apply sun instead of moon, sunset/dusk instead of night. see where i am going? you have to know how long exposures effect the exposure of film and know what different lighting conditions will do in combination with long exposures. believe me, if that image is not photoshopped in any way, which i do not believe it is, it is definitly a long exposure at sunset. the grass, its color, and the way the light seems to fall on it (sunset grass with amplified light, the light is NOT directly overhead like some of you seem to think. the way the light on the grass is not light from high-noon.) shadows would be much softer, AND the way the sky looks is what I'd image a sunset would look like with a long exposure.

 

[deftron]

yeah ... could have been combination long exposure / lens filters


I think it was manipualted during the shot ... as oposed
to later digital manipulation

 

[JDrake]

Woah :Q Those pictures are sweet.
I tried doing that with lightning, but it didn't really work

 

[archiloco]

there are actually 3 photos merged...top sky, middle sky, and the windows bliss wallpaper i think.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: archiloco
there are actually 3 photos merged...top sky, middle sky, and the windows bliss wallpaper i think.

so confident in your decision
the Bliss wallpaper is not the same field or even the same type of grass
and there are no digital manipulation artifacts that would be present if they were merged images. there are not even any clear lines to enable splicing two images in the sky together. merging the fields image with one image for sky is *possible* but that couldn't be what happened in this photo. the sky is a night sky with a long exposure, you can see the colors of sunset off to the left and right, and the night sky (albiet with amplified light due to length of shutter opening) hangs overhead. the grass has the colors of night and shadows from a setting sun, just more light.

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: Baked
so fake it's not even funny.

 

[Smartazz]

I think it may be real.
edit: because there's a post about it.

 

[destrekor]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
I think it may be real.
edit: because there's a post about it.

where?

 

[myusername]

You can tell it's fake from the shadow