Fake picture?

[Typhoon1244]

Does this picture look fake to you guys? I can't put my finger on it, but something looks weird about it. (Plus, he's awful forceful about defending its veracity..."see the shadow over the ground?"

He also took this one. If they are real, how'd he get the shots?

 

[skyking1976]

Looks fake to me too. I think you'd see a little bit more of a heat plume coming out of the back of the motors if it were real. The landscape under the 747 looks manufactured and that Mad Dog looks like someone cut it out of a magazine or something. Also they look way too clean. If they are in fact real, this guy has one hell of knack for setting the F-stop and picking lenses for his camera.

SK

 

[Flying Illini]

I can't quite put my finger on it either. They DO look fake, but at the same time, they may be real. I would really like to know how he got those pictures.

 

[rchcfi]

If you believe me or not, that is the question. I used to be roomates with the photographer. He is currently a F/O for COEX and he explained the shots.

The first one: VFR corridor over LAX in a C-172 with a heavily laden 744 off 24L.

The second one: final for 29L in a C-172 with the AA MD80 on final for 29R that starts about 1,500 feet before 29L.

 

[Typhoon1244]

I used to be roomates with the photographer.

Jesus, this is a small industry!

Well, your old roomie needs to allow his photographic skills to degrade a bit...he's too good. I looked at his stuff and said, "naaah, can't be real."

 

[rchcfi]

And I forgot to mention. He is one hell of a photographer. He's been photo'ing aircraft for over 10 years.

 

[skyking1976]

And I forgot to mention. He is one hell of a photographer. He's been photo'ing aircraft for over 10 years.

Quite impressive then. Is he a pro photographer or just a hobbyist?

 

[rchcfi]

He's more of a hobbyist, but he has had more than a few photos published in various trade pubs.

 

[urflyingme?!]

I've flown the LAX coridor a few times, u can get suprisingly close, but this guy still seems like a great photographer...

 

[Quillpig]

They look like screen shots from MicroSoft Flight Simulator to me.

QP

 

[MetroSheriff]

There is nothing in the way of topography within 20 miles of LAX that looks anything like the background in either of those photos.

Those photos are about as real as the fun bags on Pamela Anderson.

 

[Flight_Line]

Can't see any ground features in the shadow. It's just a big black hole.

 

[empenage]

They looked funny to me too.

I sent them to my brother-in-law in an email ( he has been retouching photos in NY for 23 years) and he said they looked like they were "overlaid and airbrushed". I dont know what that means? Before his children were born he used to bring some work home. Mostly magazine ads. I loved the Playboy picks. He would take gaps out of the girls teeth, cover tatoos and go so far as taking weight off their thighs and "lifting" their breasts.

Maybe he ment they are real pictures that were cleaned up to look better. Maybe I'll bother him again for some clairity.

 

[English]

There is nothing in the way of topography within 20 miles of LAX that looks anything like the background in either of those photos.

Those photos are about as real as the fun bags on Pamela Anderson.

MetroSheriff,

The monarch butterfly reserve off the end of the 24s and 25s, right before the shoreline, look EXACTLY like this. You are mistaken in your comments about topography surrounding LAX. The area shown in picture 1 used to be open for people to park and watch airplanes. Post 9/11, all the roads are closed off the departure end. But, I am very familiar with the area, and the picture is consistent with the area surrounding LAX.

 

[learflyer]

looks way to clean for it to be real. needs some grease on there to convince me.

 

[njcapt]

MetroSheriff,

The monarch butterfly reserve off the end of the 24s and 25s, right before the shoreline, look EXACTLY like this. You are mistaken in your comments about topography surrounding LAX. The area shown in picture 1 used to be open for people to park and watch airplanes. Post 9/11, all the roads are closed off the departure end. But, I am very familiar with the area, and the picture is consistent with the area surrounding LAX.

Yep, it looks exactly like the old resort area off the west end of the 24's. There are still a bunch of pads and foundations from the beach houses that used to be there, and the localizer hut in the picture is just off the end of runway 24L. Before I saw the responses to this, I thought he might have shot from the VFR corridor, but it is still an amazing piece of photography

 

[generaltso]

I am 100% sure these are Microsoft flight sim planes overlaid on real terrain. Look how fake the shadows are.

Nice job, but fakes nonetheless.

 

[7B2]

I better hang low for a while before you guys start questioning my avatar which was taken on my long solo x-c.

 

[Dizel8]

Ahhh, I see you got lost, like the rest of us

 

[7B2]

I’m not lost; nobodies lost; you just might be temporarily unable to accurately pinpoint your position.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Ahhh, I see you got lost, like the rest of us...

Remember, a precision approach is one where you find the airport on the first try. A non-precision approach is where you have to go inside the FBO and ask where you are...

P.S. I gotta admit,my avatar's a fake too. That's actually a Photoshop'ed picture of Ed Meese drinking a glass of Metamucil.

 

[310]

Look really close at the nose wheel of the american jet(second pic) --looks to me that it was cropped across the bottom.

 

[Slye]

Look really close at the nose wheel of the american jet(second pic) --looks to me that it was cropped across the bottom.

Isn't that just the MD80 nose gear spray deflector? Comes standard on most models I believe...

 

[CFI'er]

The guy is just trying to make a little smack. He will contact all of you that used the picture without prior authorization.

"This photo is copyright protected and may not be used in any way without proper permission. More info."


BUSTED!!!!!!!

 

[low-n-slow]

Look at the two white antennae on the bottom of the MD80 in relation to the MD80s shadow on the ground. Seems to me like they should also be shadowed by the fuselage instead of shining bright by what is obvious sunlight.

Ground shadows on both pics looks to be painted in, shouldn't be that dark IMO.

I don't see any spray booms either.

 

[CFI'er]

I would say doctored pictures. What is unreal about the pictures is the shadow of both aircraft. You should still see some form of ground cover just by reflective light off the ground and plant life.

 

[bigD]

I was just looking at the Tucson picture last night and wondering the same thing. It *does* look a little strange to me, but I've been into Tucson before and looked down on an airliner just like what you see in the picture, although from a greater distance. So with a nice lens, I can see you getting a good shot of an airliner right over the desert like that.

I guess my thought is that they're real, if only because they're not particularly remarkable enough to justify spending the time to fake them.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

they are real, but doctored in photoshop. (my opinion)

does that make them real??

 

[SkyWestCRJPilot]

They are real. The backgrounds look too close but that's because they were taken with a zoom lense. Zoom lenses compress the background and foreground of pictures.

 

[skyking1976]

I gotta admit,my avatar's a fake too. That's actually a Photoshop'ed picture of Ed Meese drinking a glass of Metamucil.

LOL!!!!!!! Ed looks like he lost a few pounds. How is the little fella anyway? Probably not so little anymore.