Day out at the fair

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Originally posted by *PiRo*

As a photographer the shadows on this pic match up friggin perfectly, look photoshopped but you might just be surprised. If its shopped its really good work and someones gone to alot of effort with really no obvious motive. Location looks like England actually, but judging from the text in the backgrounds its Germany.

There was a story about these pics here. They were taken at a big public run that gathers around 5.000 people every year. There were many pics taken by a newspaper photographer back then. These are real and I cannot even imagine why people try to hard to believe they ar fake.

Probably because mostly americans cannot believe people would not look more.

Americans are funny. They are like a 5-year old Northern European boy. We have an automat where you can put in money and have a porn magazine. Well, there are several but there is one that I pass every day and it is next to the main train station. It is pretty funny to watch when Americans come here and they see this automat. They stand around and giggle and take photoes and whatnot.. just because you can see a little tit and whatnot on the front page of those porn mags.

americans are strange. Here we try to have as little violence as possible in TV at hours before the kids go to bed - In the US violence is not a problem but showing tits is a huge problem. I don't understand it and I hope I never will.

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Originally posted by Powerflux

the fair photo's are fake, the ones with the silver car are fake, the ones at the playground are fake. the ones in germany could be real, the last few and some of the pics with the graffiti are real too, but not all of them.

Well there's the problem. You are not sure. Ok. But on the ones you believe could be fakes you use the word "are". On the others you use "could" only.

You don't know, you believe only, but you say it "is". That's the crazy part. Works good in religions too.

I'm leaving this thread now. Too creepy.
Sorry for my bad english.
Greetings, liplip

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Originally posted by suhraa

[reply=*PiRo*]
As a photographer the shadows on this pic match up friggin perfectly, look photoshopped but you might just be surprised. If its shopped its really good work and someones gone to alot of effort with really no obvious motive. Location looks like England actually, but judging from the text in the backgrounds its Germany.

There was a story about these pics here. They were taken at a big public run that gathers around 5.000 people every year. There were many pics taken by a newspaper photographer back then. These are real and I cannot even imagine why people try to hard to believe they ar fake.

Probably because mostly americans cannot believe people would not look more.

Americans are funny. They are like a 5-year old Northern European boy. We have an automat where you can put in money and have a porn magazine. Well, there are several but there is one that I pass every day and it is next to the main train station. It is pretty funny to watch when Americans come here and they see this automat. They stand around and giggle and take photoes and whatnot.. just because you can see a little tit and whatnot on the front page of those porn mags.

americans are strange. Here we try to have as little violence as possible in TV at hours before the kids go to bed - In the US violence is not a problem but showing tits is a huge problem. I don't understand it and I hope I never will.
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Its nothing to do with being Ameruican or not, the pics are very obviously photoshopped, nice to look at but dont for one min believe they are real.

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Originally posted by slippery-donkey

I think some may be shopped and others not, according to how many people were around. This one is probably real. The girl on the right has cast a shadow of her breast on the pole and the proportions and angle look right. If they are all shopped, then whoever did it is damn good.

That blur eveverybody instantly assumes is a photo manipulation blur to hide something is a smudge on the lens that is clear in several of the pictures too on areas that wouldn't need manipulating. The shadows people are saying are too long are the result of the camera flash, nothing more. If you look closely, other people's shadows are similarly affected by the camera flash as well.

And why do they sometimes look so much clearer and/or better lit? Depth of field and flash use.

For all those people yelling 'I'm a photographer, and those shadows aren't real, that lighting isn't real' etc etc, go experiment a bit with your flash and you'll be able to make the same shadows too, and make the people in the foreground lighter than the people in the background.

People DO do that kind of thing in public. A model did a nude bike ride, and bus ride locally last year in Bergan, while in Oslo a model and photographer were out in the main street in broad daylight taking nude pics for a calendar. The nudity laws here are far stricter than other parts of Europe too.

The effort involved in photoshopping an entire series of pictures is massive and not cost effective. If they were arrested, they'd get let off with a small fine at the worst and could probably sweet talk their way out of any real trouble, especially in East European countries.

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Originally posted by TheItch

That blur eveverybody instantly assumes is a photo manipulation blur to hide something is a smudge on the lens that is clear in several of the pictures too on areas that wouldn't need manipulating. The shadows people are saying are too long are the result of the camera flash, nothing more. If you look closely, other people's shadows are similarly affected by the camera flash as well.

And why do they sometimes look so much clearer and/or better lit? Depth of field and flash use.

For all those people yelling 'I'm a photographer, and those shadows aren't real, that lighting isn't real' etc etc, go experiment a bit with your flash and you'll be able to make the same shadows too, and make the people in the foreground lighter than the people in the background.

People DO do that kind of thing in public. A model did a nude bike ride, and bus ride locally last year in Bergan, while in Oslo a model and photographer were out in the main street in broad daylight taking nude pics for a calendar. The nudity laws here are far stricter than other parts of Europe too.

The effort involved in photoshopping an entire series of pictures is massive and not cost effective. If they were arrested, they'd get let off with a small fine at the worst and could probably sweet talk their way out of any real trouble, especially in East European countries.

In Oslo they had intercourse in public at a concert. When the pics first came on the internet everyone said they werte DEFINITELY fphotoshopped. Untill the videos starting coming in.

Well im gonna add my bit now, it looks like the easy shots where no body would notice to much are real, they look in proportion and all the lighting looks ok, some however look like they have been shopped from other photos to maybe extend the series?? or to prove someones photoshop prowess maybe??, who knows

background photos are taken in Vienna Austria

More to come... at least say thanks.