The Conquistador's Picture Of The Day

[dauls]

Originally Posted by Tread

3rd pic: Would be interesting what they have done after this.

Unfortunately the 4th picture in the above crane disaster is a fake. (See 4th and 5th pictures attached).

It happened in Connemara, Galway, Ireland in 2004, and the pictures made the papers in the UK.

When the larger green-cabbed mobile crane arrived they correctly deployed outriggers and lifted the car and the first truck out of the water.

NOTE:
First three pictures are real.

The 4th picture is real and was photoshopped to make the fake 5th picture.

[The Conquistador]

Yeah. Deploying outriggers is a must when working by edges with heavy equipment, especially if they have a boom or some kind of extendable arm.

[Tread]

Originally Posted by dauls

Unfortunately the 4th picture in the above crane disaster is a fake. (See 4th and 5th pictures attached).

It happened in Connemara, Galway, Ireland in 2004, and the pictures made the papers in the UK.

When the larger green-cabbed mobile crane arrived they correctly deployed outriggers and lifted the car and the first truck out of the water.

NOTE:
First three pictures are real.

The 4th picture is real and was photoshopped to make the fake 5th picture.

Ahh, thanks for the info.
I should have noticed the manipulation.

[shadows]

Originally Posted by Tread

Ahh, thanks for the info.
I should have noticed the manipulation.

I don't see how. It looked real enough to me. It is amazing how good of a job some of these "photo manipulators" really are!

[dauls]

Originally Posted by Tread

Ahh, thanks for the info.
I should have noticed the manipulation.

The pictures of the first mobile crane falling into the water gained significant attention for this story.

But after an unknown photoshopper faked the second mobile crane falling into the water and added it to the series an already popular story gained a second wind.

Footnote:
The driver of the white car was trapped upside down underwater, a female passerby saw the incident, called out to a local man for help, who jumped in and pulled the driver to safety.

[shadows]

Originally Posted by dauls

The pictures of the first mobile crane falling into the water gained significant attention for this story.

But after an unknown photoshopper faked the second mobile crane falling into the water and added it to the series an already popular story gained a second wind.

Footnote:
The driver of the white car was trapped upside down underwater, a female passerby saw the incident, called out to a local man for help, who jumped in and pulled the driver to safety.

That is a good thing to hear. It would put a serious damper on the funny side to the story if anyone had died as a result of the accident(s).

[The Conquistador]

Rat weenies!

[Tread]

Originally Posted by shadows

I don't see how. It looked real enough to me. It is amazing how good of a job some of these "photo manipulators" really are!

Blue: The driver cab has the exact same photograph angle.
The cab is not totally fix with the underbody, so it would cant over; or if the truck were falling the cab would not cant over, but the water would splash.
The wheels should be coming more out, because the suspension is not stressed.
Red: The Truck is cut out unclean. You can see that some grey ground hides a bit of the green can in the background, and you can see the cutting edge from the ground under the truck and the other ground have slightly different colors.
Yellow: missing shadow from the truck
Green: The only sharp edge in this pic, all others are blurred while compressing or shrinking the pic. (between the first truck and the cane of the second truck)
Pink: made unsharp, looks fake dusty/foggy

[dauls]

Oh, !

[dauls]

Crocodile fcks up!