Saturday, February 21, 2009

Giant snake photo obviously 'shopped.

Dude, this is so obviously Photoshopped. I mean, if you can spot some of the more obscure fakeries over at the fantastic Photoshop Disasters blog, then you can obviously figure out what is wrong with this photo.



Is it a giant mystery river snake — or just a Photoshop job?

London's Daily Telegraph greeted readers Friday morning with photos of what appeared to be a gigantic serpent wending its way down a tropical river, said to be somewhere on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, "sparking great concern among local communities."

But the rival Guardian refrained from jumping on the story — and instead declared it to be a fake that looked as if it had been "drawn by a pre-school child with their first green felt tip."

The Telegraph said only that the snake had been seen in the Baleh River, which is in the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It didn't mention who took the photo, or where and when it was taken.

We'll let you decide.

- Source

Oh, come the fuck on!

For starters, according to the scale of that image, the snake must be roughly a 1,000 feet long. See those wave crests in the snake's wake? In order to make those, that snake must be moving about as fast as a speed boat. Also, to harp on the waves some more, they're at an improper angle. And to harp even more, the second set of waves shouldn't eve be there. They're not residual waves and that section of the snake is clearly underwater. Lastly, the water crests don't even look right. They look like Gaussian blurred white lines with a little bit of transparency tweaking.

Give me a fucking break. "Let you decide"? This has to be one of the shittiest Photoshop jobs I've seen. And I've seen some really shitty ones.









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