Although in the minority, which is nothing new for me, I still contend this
photograph is a fake, at least in part, and a very large part at that.
Examining it closely, it appears to me that the light is coming from a highly
improbable two directions, maybe even three.
http://suryakant.wordpress.com/files/2006/04/rainbow_elam_3.jpg
Like I pointed out in a previous post, the light on the foreground tree is
inconsistent with the long shadow on the woods in the right background. There's
no way the field could be illuminated and the woods be in deep shadow if the
sun is behind and a little to the left of the photographer, as it appears from
the foreground. That shadow has to be coming from the right. In addition, there
is a large, apparently round, orangish object of some kind at the treeline in
the middle background that casts a shadow to the left, as the trees back there
seem also to do -- just like the shadows falling along and across the dark road
on the right, which have to be cast by something on the right and out of the
frame because there's nothing anywhere in sight on the left that could make
them.
I don't even think the angle of the light on the foreground tree is really
consistent with that in the left half of the picture, so that makes three parts
of this picture that appear to me to be illuminated by different suns. I've
never seen but one on this planet -- at least not since one strange afternoon
back in the '60s. YMMV.
Some years ago, I was largely responsible for getting a lawyer disbarred and
his client indicted when I spotted the first of a series of faked photographs.
The clue was an EMT whose watch was on his right arm. Further close inspection
showed that the plaintiffs' photographs were all reversed, which changed the
whole contention of the case, which was who was on the wrong side of the road
at the time of a fatal accident. When the EMT was located, he testified he
couldn't recall which vehicle was where because he was busy tending to the
injured, but that he was not left-handed and had never in his life worn his
wristwatch on this right arm
Since then, I have cautioned every lawyer I know to view with great suspicion
any photograph that contradicts what they believe the facts to be, and
especially so now that even a hack like me can fake a photo on a computer.
As proof, I hereby confess that in the third of my Odyssey shots, "The Finger,"
the fellow pointing was apparently left-handed, so was wearing his watch on his
right arm. I found that distracting, but I couldn't just reverse the image
because of the Coke cups, so I used PWP Pro to remove his watch.
http://www.olympus-photography.com/Olympus-Odyssey/wwayman/TheFinger.jpg
Nothing may be what it seems anymore, and more's the shame for that. Many
times nowadays a picture ain't worth any words a'tall, much less a thousand,
because they can easily be made to lie.
As I have said many times before, I could be wrong.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Garth <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
> > Well, for one thing, the light's wrong. I can almost swallow some parts of
> it, even though I've never seen both ends of a rainbow at the same time.
>
> Actually, I see a couple of "complete" rainbows almost every summer here
> in Alberta. You're right, Walt -- living on the prairie does help. The
> rest of this photo doesn't necessary befuddle me either: if the photog
> had a small break in the clouds behind him/her, shining a beam or shaft
> of irregularly-shaped sunlight onto the landscape beyond with its ragged
> edge touching the treetop in the near part of this image, then voila!
>
> Once, when I was young and about as stupid as I am now, I saw a scene
> that was as unlikely as this in southern Alberta near Waterton National
> Park. Naturally, I didn't have my trusty OMs with me, and I've
> regretted the loss of that image ever since. "F8 and be there."
>
> Yep. F8 and be there.
>
>
> Garth
>
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