Anti-gravity or special effects? (You judge.)

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 11:29 am

Hi Everyone,

Please review these series of photos. These special activities took place May 2005.

My kids were just as surprised as I! These are things you can do if you put your mind to it. :p

p.s. I had to watermark these images because I know they'll be copied all over the Internet. :rolleyes:

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capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed May 25, 2005 11:58 am

Tombstone wrote: Hi Everyone,

Please review these series of photos. These special activities took place May 2005.

My kids were just as surprised as I! These are things you can do if you put your mind to it. :p

p.s. I had to watermark these images because I know they'll be copied all over the Internet. :rolleyes:The third one. Beam me up Dad

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:09 pm

Look closely at the fourth photo.....it's photoshopped. The light source is different.

The front of the girl's shirt is in shadow (her right side) Yet the light is hitting the right side of the boy's arm. That's means the light is coming from exact opposite directions on these two, it should only be coming from one point. This is a mix of a shot from a boy on a trampoline mixed with a girl pointing in the air.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:12 pm

Jives wrote: Look closely at the fourth photo.....it's photoshopped. The light source is different.

The front of the girl's shirt is in shadow (her right side) Yet the light is hitting the right side of the boy's arm. That's means the light is coming from exact opposite directions on these two, it should only be coming from one point. This is a mix of a shot from a boy on a trampoline mixed with a girl pointing in the air.

Warm! Light source is exactly the same.

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:14 pm

The kids can do pretty good tricks. What can the dog do though?

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:16 pm

hotsauce wrote: The kids can do pretty good tricks. What can the dog do though?

He's really good at catching the ball.

Jives · Post by **Jives** » Wed May 25, 2005 12:59 pm

I recognize those trees...are those your kids Tombstone?

Ok, so I'm off on the light source, is it the way that gravity is affecting their clothes?

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:14 pm

The kids aren't making any shadows.

john8pies · Post by **john8pies** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:39 pm

Impressive, but probably er a little fraudulent ( in view of the above comments)?!

telaquapacky · Post by **telaquapacky** » Wed May 25, 2005 1:53 pm

Tombstone wrote: Hi Everyone,

Please review these series of photos. These special activities took place May 2005.

My kids were just as surprised as I! These are things you can do if you put your mind to it. :p

p.s. I had to watermark these images because I know they'll be copied all over the Internet. :rolleyes:The levitating kids don't have shadows on the ground. (although sometimes I don't either.)

persephone · Post by **persephone** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:44 pm

telaquapacky wrote: The levitating kids don't have shadows on the ground. (although sometimes I don't either.)
That's what I was going to say, and it's more obvious in the fourth one seeing as the girl has a shadow.

Also in the third one, how can one be laying on the floor and the other be floating, surely if they were in the same area as they appear to be they would both be floating?

capt_buzzard · Post by **capt_buzzard** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:03 pm

Tombstone has mastered the art of levitation. One never does know what these countryboys get up to in their own backyard

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:35 pm

Jives wrote: I recognize those trees...are those your kids Tombstone?

Ok, so I'm off on the light source, is it the way that gravity is affecting their clothes?

Yes, with the eldest one missing! (Hmmm..but maybe he's operating the crane behind the scenes.)

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:36 pm

letha wrote: That's what I was going to say, and it's more obvious in the fourth one seeing as the girl has a shadow.

Also in the third one, how can one be laying on the floor and the other be floating, surely if they were in the same area as they appear to be they would both be floating?

No, she was just jumping over him. He was afraid she was going to either hit him or fall on him.

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:37 pm

capt_buzzard wrote: Tombstone has mastered the art of levitation. One never does know what these countryboys get up to in their own backyard

Give us more than 10 minutes of idle time and we go beserk! :driving:

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:39 pm

you're gaslighting us Tombstone!! AAAGGGGHHHHH!!!! :wah:

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:40 pm

hotsauce wrote: The kids aren't making any shadows.

Surprisingly, when they were high up in the air, there were no shadows cast - probably because this was all done around 4 or 5 in the evening. The sun was starting to hit at a high angle.

hotsauce · Post by **hotsauce** » Wed May 25, 2005 3:50 pm

Tombstone wrote: Surprisingly, when they were high up in the air, there were no shadows cast - probably because this was all done around 4 or 5 in the evening. The sun was starting to hit at a high angle.

oh yeah...then how come the little girl pointing has a shadow? nice try though! a shadow is a shadow...no matter where you are!

btw...cute pics!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:02 pm

hotsauce wrote: oh yeah...then how come the little girl pointing has a shadow? nice try though! a shadow is a shadow...no matter where you are!

btw...cute pics!

Actually, not true...at least not that you can see in a finite photo.

Go outside when the sun is closer to the horizon. Put a ball on the ground. See the shadow? Good.

Now, throw the ball about 12 or 15 feet into the air. See the shadow? Probably not - and if you do, it could be a couple hundred feet away.

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:10 pm

Tombstone, you are going to tell us how you did this TODAY, right? Because if I try and go to bed tonight not knowing, I will NEVER be able to get to sleep!! It's 7-ish here now. That gives you about 8 more hours before I turn in! Don't leave me hangin' man!!!!

(Very cool stuff, by the way.) :yh_bigsmi

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:34 pm

BabyRider wrote: Tombstone, you are going to tell us how you did this TODAY, right? Because if I try and go to bed tonight not knowing, I will NEVER be able to get to sleep!! It's 7-ish here now. That gives you about 8 more hours before I turn in! Don't leave me hangin' man!!!!

(Very cool stuff, by the way.) :yh_bigsmi

Glad you like it! I can't, however, tell you how I did it. That's like a magician showing you how they did their trick. What fun is that?

I have a few more compositions that I'll share over the next few weeks. If they turn out the way I think they will, they should be fun as well.

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:46 pm

Gee Tombstone, do you live anywhere near Jackson Hole, WY? I've seen these optical illusions there

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:51 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: Gee Tombstone, do you live anywhere near Jackson Hole, WY? I've seen these optical illusions there
We live north and west - Panhandle of Idaho.

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Wed May 25, 2005 4:57 pm

I think it went like this?

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Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed May 25, 2005 5:15 pm

BTS wrote: I think it went like this?

Mechanically - right on! :yh_worshp There was no crane.

But where is the trampoline? Where's the cutout?

David813 · Post by **David813** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:33 pm

I don't bloody get it.:yh_questn

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed May 25, 2005 6:34 pm

Tombstone wrote: Mechanically - right on! :yh_worshp There was no crane.

But where is the trampoline? Where's the cutout?You just don't care if I sleep tonight, do you? DO YOU??!!! You evil, evil man... :yh_bigsmi

Jika · Post by **Jika** » Thu May 26, 2005 1:56 am

me thinks tombstone is jedi master of photoshop.

BTS · Post by **BTS** » Thu May 26, 2005 6:34 am

Tombstone wrote: Mechanically - right on! :yh_worshp There was no crane.

But where is the trampoline? Where's the cutout? Ok now.......... I touched my original up a little to make it more believable, removed your watermark... and put a tramp under him...... I did it with a clone brush. I would assume that is what you used also?

Am I close?

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Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:29 am

Jives wrote: This is a mix of a shot from a boy on a trampoline mixed with a girl pointing in the air.

bingo! :p

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Thu May 26, 2005 8:40 am

BTS wrote: Ok now.......... I touched my original up a little to make it more believable, removed your watermark... and put a tramp under him...... I did it with a clone brush. I would assume that is what you used also?

Am I close?

You are close! I didn't use a clone brush - since you can spot cloned sections pretty easily.

Wow! I'm impressed that you took the time to de-construct my photo.

Look at the photo where my daughter is jumping up and over her brother who is curled up on the ground. The cloned section scenario wouldn't work here because you could see if I modified this area. The trampoline had to be taken out of the photo seamlessly. So, I used a 150 year old photographic technique - composites!

The beauty of using composites is that even on the uncompressed images 3200X2400 - you can't tell. No seams, no cloning, no pixel manipulation. Everything is perfect - *except the clouds overhead which were moving from the left to the right.

persephone · Post by **persephone** » Sun May 29, 2005 7:26 am

Tombstone wrote: The beauty of using composites is that even on the uncompressed images 3200X2400 - you can't tell. No seams, no cloning, no pixel manipulation. Everything is perfect - *except the clouds overhead which were moving from the left to the right.

:DAnd that would be the reason the last photo had the sky cut off then?