This photo looks dodgy to me

[bigben]

Well---are there any professional camera buffs here?

Take a look at the front page photo on the Nation newspaper (Internet edition) and tell me what you think.

www.nationmultimedia.com/ (http://www.nationmultimedia.com/)

Apparently it is a photo of a recent rain storm in the center of Bangkok, but I can see the antennas clearly on the far away buildings and blue colors on windows.

A major thunder and lighting rain storm and clear as a bell.

A really good camera???? A photoshop fraud???

I think the latter

[Smiles]

" ... A really good camera???? A photoshop fraud???
I think the latter ... "
Just so folks don't have to wait for the notoriously slow Nation website to load (The Post's site is even slower):



http://www.photodump.com/direct/sawatdee/lightening.jpg


Looks like perhaps a lightening strike alone ... no rain (yet) while the photo was taken. A dry flash .... we get them here fairly often.


Cheers ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v27/wowpow/30033043-01.jpg

Looks great to me but I know nothing of these fraudulent photos.

http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1609/8571041/15911717/249424419.jpg

[bigben]

Thank you Smiles and WowPow

I haven't figured out how to post photos only.

By the way WowPow.......are you married? :geek:

jk

I think Ben is talking about enhancement by Photoshop, not Botox...

And this rain storm picture has to do with gay Thailand because.....?

The blue on one of the buildings contrasts with the general greyish tone but it's interesting to note that the blue is all on surfaces that are at 45 degrees so may be reflecting only some of the spectrum of the flash. This would tend to support the notion that the flash is real.

It is not very difficult to capture lightning flashes using long exposures in dim light though if such a technique were used for this shot one would assume the use of a tripod or clamp as it is a fairly sharp shot. Photoshop might have been used to saturate/desaturate some of the colours but not, I think, to overlay the flash.

And this rain storm picture has to do with gay Thailand because.....?

It's in Bangkok. Blue is the new pink.

[bigben]

The above mentioned photo has vanished from the newspapers website.

It was only on-line for about 5 hours and now deleted.

I tried searching the site to no avail.

They not only pulled it but it is not available to look at in the archives

Interesting, as it was a romantic kind of picture.

I always like the feeling of rain in the city.

At least I can always come here and look at it again. :cheers:

[Smiles]

So now that the first photo has disappeared (from The Nation that is) we are left with the second ~ and much more surreal ~ photo on this thread. This one:


http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1609/8571041/15911717/249424419.jpg


I wonder if Wowpow has some "before" shots (assuming this one is an "after")?
Looks like a guy desperately attempting to be accepted into the lineup at Tawan. Pass the steroids . . .



" ... I haven't figured out how to post photos only ... "
Bigben, the easiest way to post photos in messages here is to open up a (free) photo-hosting account with web services such as http://www.photobucket or http://www.photodump.com . . . upload your chosen photos to their site . . . then paste the image's URL address into the message.

The easiest one to use of the 2 above (there are many others) is PhotoDump: very simple, hardly any bells and whistles, and they have no problem with you hotlinking the photos to message boards. In fact they encourage it.
PhotoBucket is also excellent, though it is getting so big now it's becoming overloaded with add-on services ... with add-on prices. PhotoBucket also has a limit on size and number of images you can host for free.

Getting these images into a message is easy. Just hit the "QUOTE" button on this post of mine (top right corner). Up will come the whole message/quote including the coding you must use to have an image come up in a message.

Cheers ...

[Sen Yai]

The above mentioned photo has vanished from the newspapers website.

It was only on-line for about 5 hours and now deleted.

:cheers:

This is the photo they have there now - far more realistic. But is that Homintern's apartment taking a direct hit?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/SenYai/s3_copy185.jpg

[pandorasbox-old]

I actually thought it was static from Pearls nylon panty hose :flower:

I do not claim to be an expert, but the photo looks very dodgy to me (the lightening one that is, not the gorgeous wow-pow; how could he be dodgy?)

Under high magnification you see pixellated effects round the edge of the buildings, as if someone has taken a picture of bangkok under a fairly blue sky and superimposed the lightening and grey background on it. Looking carefully at the end of the lightening where it meets the building, it actually stops a little way down the buildingwhere there is a convenient patch of pure white to blend into. I would also expect the sky reflection on the glass to be greyer if the photo were natural. Also, if it were a long time exposure needed to catch lightening one would expect to see some of the interior lights of the buildings showing up - compare with the later picture.

Only a personal opinion of course, but it does look dodgy.

[Lunchtime O'Booze]

to the nth degree...common these days but a respectable (?) newspaper should point that out.

It's worth challenging them about the pic and I think I'm going to !!!

No Sen-Yai..I actually remember that lightening strike..it was a time when Hedda was on Jomtien Beach boasting about his days as a Chicago Banker trading commodities and someone mentioned that his Aussie accent didn't quite gel..Hedda said "may God strike me down if I lie"..well the rest is history. The Hedda of Fart Stop is actually one of Lucifer's acolytes sent to replace Lord Hedda.

The picture of the infamous old codger Wowpow should really be in the thread on plastic surgery..I've seen it in the book they give you at Bumrungrad to flick through and look at "before" and " after" snaps..than God Wowpow looks nothing like that now they have corrected all her flaws.

The above mentioned photo has vanished from the newspapers website.

It was only on-line for about 5 hours and now deleted.

:cheers:

But is that Homintern's apartment taking a direct hit?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v291/SenYai/s3_copy185.jpg


http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u152/GeorgeThai/no_no-1.gif Sen Yai, that's a despicable post to make. What a cruel vile and nasty thing to say about anyone.. However, as a result of doing so, you have not only risen in my estimation of you, but have also been placed on my Christmas card list. http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u152/GeorgeThai/biglaugh.gif


G.

[Aunty]

Actually I thought it may have been one of Edith's immaculate conceptions.