HereToRockYourWorld said:

Btw, where are the seams that are so prominent?
[Edited 5/21/07 20:07pm]

About the 3rd or 4th time I've spit food on my keyboard from this site. That shit was too funny.

Fauxie said:

Fauxie said:

They did a bit of a sloppy job on this one with the "lighting" on the inner ring. They didn't get it lit properly when they took the photo of the model, so they photoshopped in the lighting to try to match the angle of the light hitting the trees. But I don't think they got the angle right, and they didn't do a great job with painting it in. The squares to the left are a little too white, they weren't careful enough with the edges (they look a little choppy), there is no gradient within the transition squares. . . just the one first light gray one, which has an odd appearance. . .

It's real now.

FruitToAttractBears said:

I didn't say that they are so prominent, I said that it's not hard to hide them (when you can shoot a model against a uniform color -- think blue or green screens in movies -- and present the images in a low-resolution setting).

july said:

If you're at all a photoshop geek it's just fun to pick this stuff apart.

HereToRockYourWorld said:

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Sorry i'm just a geek. minus the shop ala photo.

FruitToAttractBears said:

What?

Oh, sorry, is this what you were looking for:

"WOW, it's a UFO! I sure hope they spare the Libras (best sign ever ) when they come back to do experiments on us! "



I think that it's unlikely that we're the only living creatures in the universe ("we" meaning all of us on Earth). It's also unlikely that, given roughly the same amount of time that we've had, that a species on another planet has become advanced enough to build a craft that can reach us, that they happen to be close enough to us that such a thing is feasible (or, that they've discovered some kind of "warp" travel), and that they found us, and that they care enough about us to be doing fly-by "missions" without simultaneously caring enough to try to interact with us, ALL at the same time. Not impossible! But so improbable that I think it's. . . at least silly, probably idiotic. . .to accept that explanation over the much more plausible -- even provable! -- explanation of the existence of a photoshop nerd with a lot of free time on their hands.


But, perhaps you are joking with all of this anyway. Doesn't matter to me. Point stands.
[Edited 5/21/07 20:20pm]

FruitToAttractBears said:

Ok, how about this simple thing? There are branches close to the photographers, branches further away, then the craft furthest away. If the furthest thing away is so in focus, the tree is going to be progressively less so as we get closer to the camera, correct? Why, then, are the branches closest to the camera more in focus than those closer to the in-focus craft?

HereToRockYourWorld said:

I read your comment, rolled my eyes, and posted the corresponding emoticon.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Mkay.

Fauxie said:

I noticed the exposure too. The sunlight is hitting everything from behind the camera, but the craft appears to not be affected by this.

See the dark edging on the "phallic wing" facing us here (Where I placed the Prince symbol). The edging should be reflecting the sunlight, and thus a lighter color (unless of course the edge there is truly a darker material than the rest of the wing)



Also, I'm not so sure if seams on photos mean anything as Photoshop artist can easily superimposed pictures without seams. But when I blew the picture up and applied a 100% burn to the image, there is a fuzy seam of sorts--though I can't contribute that to the superimposing cause jpg is a data-losing compression skeem so I have no clue if that would occur even on real images at that resolution.

For me, I echo your sentiments. You just look at it and something feels very "wrong" about it.

Someone else saw it in California.

Odd Aerial "Drone"? Photographed Again Over Capitola, California

http://www.earthfiles.com...nvironment

© 2007 by Linda Moulton Howe

"No one had any idea what this thing was, but everyone in the car
was visibly freaked out by it." - rajman1977, Capitola


Capitola, population 10,033, is in Santa Cruz County
northeast of Santa Cruz, California.


Previous Odd Aerial "Drone?" Earthfiles


Engineer Comments About O...arthfiles



May 21, 2007 Capitola, California - Around May 11, 2007, Coast to Coast AM webmaster, Lex, received an email letter with attached May 6, 2007, images of a very odd aerial object from a Central California resident who calls himself "Chad." Chad is worried about his family's safety and health since he has now seen the bizarre aerial object at least eight times from his house windows and on hikes near his home. Neighbors, he said, have also seen the unidentified aerial object. Then on May 15, 2007, I received another similar aerial "drone" image allegedly taken by a person at Lake Tahoe, California, on May 5, 2007 and identifying themselves at UFO Casebook.com as "Lake Tahoe-05-05-07MUFON Submitter 7013."

Now on May 21, 2007, the following images have been posted at Flickr.com with this email by rajman1977:

"This week I was visting my fiance's parents in Capitola (we were actually there to tell them about our engagement, in fact). We were eating dinner on the back porch when we noticed this "object" sort of hovering in the sky. The camera was still out from earlier so I grabbed it and tried to get some clear shots of it. It took off over the roof shortly after, so I ran into the street in front of the house to follow, trying to get more shots without wobbling around too much (which was harder than it sounds). It then came in lower over a telephone pole, where I was able to get a few more pictures, before it finally took off into the distance pretty fast. I thought it was gone but noticed it was still visible, so I grabbed a few more pictures.

At one point a car stopped to look as well. No one had any idea what this thing was, but everyone in the car was visibly freaked out by it. Once it was gone they told me to call the news and drove off. I'm not sure who else saw it in the neighborhood since I don't live down there, but I'm sure at least a few others must have noticed it. It was way too werid and way too close to go unnoticed. Once it was gone and I caught my breath I could barely stop my hands from shaking for the next hour or so. Needless to say, this is all we talked about for the rest of the night. None of us can figure out what it was (and that's saying something, because my fiance's dad is a mechanical engineer).

We sent a copy of the photos to their newspaper but haven't heard back yet. I dunno how long that kind of thing takes.

There's also some writing on this thing, which I didn't recognize (and I read both English and Hindi). You can see it in a few of the pictures.

Anyway, I created this Flickr account for the best of these pictures. I have no clue what this thing is so I'm putting it out there to see if anyone else saw it."







Rajman1977 Image 0018, taken with a Konica Minolta DiMAGE X on May 16, 2007,
in Capitola, California. Image © 2007 by rajman1977 at flickr.com.

http://www.flickr.com/pho...236430072/

Coooool

This one is great. It's the only one that doesn't make me feel like something is a bit corny about the picture.

Imago said:

Come on, that's the fakest looking one of the bunch!

They ARE fun pics.

BTW, examples of nice "seamless" photoshop work with a green screen. . .hair is one of the most difficult things to manage when superimposing one image over another, but even that isn't tough anymore if you know you're gonna do it when you're shooting the photo.

FruitToAttractBears said:

Please back up your statement.

Imago said:

Yeah, and not with something you just pulled out of your ass!

HereToRockYourWorld said:

Oui

july said:

But how do they get a green/blue screen up in the sky?

Imago said:

The thickest of the telephone lines wavers right where the "craft" intersects... just as if someone had not quite used the erase or smudge tool to perfection in photoshop.