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Is this photoshopped?

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Last edited by LinkF16SimDude on Nov 29, 2004 - 09:05 PM; edited 1 time in total

Both of those look like they're for real. The bottom one was probably taken during one of the Bright Star excercises and the top one looks alot like the South Dakota or Montana back country, maybe even west Texas.

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FYI: JPEGS and BMPs are just indicators of image compression. JPEGs use a lot of compression to get a lot of info into a small file size (usually 1.5 megs or less) but they tend to be less detailed when expanded. JPEGs are good as web upload images 'cause they're quicker and easier to send and load faster. BMPs are much larger, with file sizes ranging from 2 or 3 megs and up, but contain much, much more detail. The expanded images in the photo gallery at www.af.mil are probably BMPs optimized for web downloads. The problem you were having with the BMPs was probably just a file size restriction on the server you were sending to.

I never knew that US bombers were deployed to Bright Star, focus a little bit on the B-1, it seems like there is a white thing around it, and at that height with the pyramids, the Lancer should look bigger.

Don't think it's a photoshop myself. The white kind of looks like transonic vapor forming around parts of the aircraft.

Nah, those look real. They're lo-res anyway, bitmap or not.

Karim, bmp stands for 'bitmap' and like Link said, is an uncompressed image, with all its original resolution and detail. It is however, a very large file, and limited to the resolution the pic was taken with in the firts place. Well all digital images are limited ot their original resolution. Jpegs are compressed, but the amount of compression can vary, and you can get jpgs that lose very little of their original quality. The key to hi-res, good quality digital images is to start with a high pixel dimensioned, hi-res shot and widdle it down from, or enhance.

KarimAbdoun wrote:

I never knew that US bombers were deployed to Bright Star.

B-1s have been attending Bright Star for the last several years. Not sure about the Buff.

KarimAbdoun wrote:

focus a little bit on the B-1, it seems like there is a white thing around it, and at that height with the pyramids, the Lancer should look bigger.

The relative size of the B-1 to the Pyramid will depend on it's distance from it AND the distance of the photo bird from the B-1 and the Pyramid. You could be a good distance away from the Pyramid and it would still look HUGE. I suspect the photo bird was using a wide angle lens (28mm perhaps) and wanted to capture the B-1 and all three pyramids and have all four objects in relative focus, so it needed to be far enough away for a wide angle shot...which would make the B-1 appear small compared to the background.

That "white thing" around the aircraft is probably a digital artifact from the compression process. Sometimes with high contrast areas you get bleed over that mimics a "halo". This comes from setting the exposure to properly capture a dark object on a bright background. With a 2D image you also lose a little bit of depth perception depending on how the depth-of-field was adjusted. In a nutshell depth-of-field settings change the way background objects are perceived. Varying the depth-of-field will either focus or defocus the background, which aids in depth perception. The original image probably had the depth-of-field set to focus both the foreground and background and that will give the impression the aircraft is closer to the pyramid than it really is.

I know I'm late chiming in, but the lower pic im almost 100% certain is authentic.

This pic was taken by a friend of mine in Marine Air Group 49. Also during Bright Star. This pic is about 3 years old..maybe a little more? Sorry about the pixelation...

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"Is this photoshopped?" I know I'm months too late but here is a reaction. Both pics are real. I'm convinced about that, since I regularly photoshop myself...