The amazing and cool photo thread
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I think I'll trust the person who used photoshop to check it.......
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Yeah, no. That proves nothing. In fact, the completely asymmetrical jowls seem to contradict the whole shopped theory. If it was shopped for symmetry it would be 100% symmetrical. Unless they took the time to seamlessly blend the original jowls with the rest of the image. By why fake symmetry on part of an image, it accomplishes nothing.
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I still say it's not shopped. Have a look at other photos of insects up close and see what you think. There's some serious symmetry going on in the insect world. http://500px.com/YudySauw
I really don't understand why you can't look at that pic and just enjoy it for what is rather than be skeptical and think that there is something underhanded going on about it. It's a part of the paranoid world we live in today I guess.
I prefer to believe that Yudy Sauw is presenting us with some amazing up close photos of some of the life around us that we rarely ever get a chance to see. Beautiful isn't it?
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It is beautiful, and I don't argue that there is a LOT of symmetry in this world. But that one is just a BIT far on the end of TOO perfect.
I haven't yet said I don't like it....
I haven't yet said I don't like it....
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Look close at the very center dividing line on the original pic in the site I posted a link to and you'll see subtle differences between the two halves of the insect. I don't know what photoshop was supposed to reveal, but to my eyes when I zoom in I can see many many differences, and not mirror images, nor do I see negatives as suggested up above in post 7144. At the 500pic site, take a look at the face of the mantis(towards the end of the list). That is even more suspicious looking to be shopped than this particular one, to me at least. But that's how it really is. And the smaller you go, the more perfect each half resembles the other. Ever watch a microscopic view of a cell dividing? Is that shopped just because each half is an identical image of the other?
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There are many pictures on that page where he's done the same thing.
I only pointed it out because it appeared obvious to me that the image wasn't what it appears to be. Yet this picture was featured in a national newspaper yesterday as 'photography' when infact it is at least as much 'photo manipulation'.
I'm not saying I don't like his pictures - some of them are awesome - but I like to know that what I'm looking at is real. This guy has clearly gone to some effort to disguise the fact that he's creating the symmetry effect artificially, but anyone with access to Photoshop can see for themselves that many of his pictures are not simply photos.
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And I still don't buy it. I'd have to get a copy of photoshop going to understand what it is that you all are seeing that I'm not. But do go to the site I posted a link to and zoom in on the pic in question. There ARE differences between the left and right sides of the insect that do not appear to be shopped in nor do they appear to be mirrored. There are others on that site as well as the one you originally posted that also appear to be very symmetrical in appearance, but that's just how it is in the insect world isn't it? Please read my post 7147 also.
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Sorry, I should have explained what my image shows.
If you take a symmetrical image, flip it over (mirror), then make it a negative and layer it over the original, anything that is exactly mirrored should turn mid-grey as the colour values cancel each other out. Anything that remains coloured shows a difference between the two images.
The image I posted shows a near perfect match for symmetry on all areas except the centreline of the insect. There are, however, differences to the shading of each side, shown by the mid-grey colour variance.
IF the photo has been altered then they have gone as far as ensuring the shading/highlighting is correct. IF it is untouched then well-played mother nature, awesome job; and well done to the photographer who happened to get such a precise angle. I honestly don't know enough about the physical make up of insects or the photographers skill to tell you which way it is, but it is a great picture regardless.
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There is no way on Earth that image has not been altered.
If you do a Difference or Subtract overlay on this image, for example, the same thing happens but it's even clearer... the central region is different, but the rest of the image is practically identical.
If you do a Difference or Subtract overlay on this image, for example, the same thing happens but it's even clearer... the central region is different, but the rest of the image is practically identical.
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It's definitely been manipulated. You can tell that from the eyes. The little 'bubbles' that make up a compound eye have reflections that mirror each other in this pic. In reality, the light source highlighted in each individual bubble would point in the same direction, not be reversed left to right.
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Blue lava in Java...
From here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...lue-flame-volcanoes-sulfur-indonesia-pictures
From here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...lue-flame-volcanoes-sulfur-indonesia-pictures
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Since it's taken me several hours, over the course of about 3 days, to look through this entire thread, I figured I'd throw something up I thought was particularly cool, and not just because I took it with my S4.
A Bahamian sunrise.
A Bahamian sunrise.
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How about in motion?
There was also this one:
And this modern-day prototype called the Boeing Pelican:
Just found this... http://englishrussia.com/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/
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Hate to say it, but that was posted a few pages back.... It's an awesome idea if we could get "shipping lanes" for them! 
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It's an awesome idea if we could get "shipping lanes" for them!
I wonder if they can really do enough to avoid severe weather. I don't think those would handle massive ocean swells well.
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Danoff
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That's a strange altitude, because at that altitude you don't get any ground effect. Makes it a very different aircraft than the others shown.
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Ground effect occurs when the plane is within about one wingspan of the ground (ie, wingspan of 100 units, ground effect when within 100 units of the ground). That Boeing Pelican would have had a 500 foot wingspan(!), so it would be in ground effect at that altitude even though its normal cruising altitude would have been more like fifty feet or less.
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Is that affected by wing width or just length?
