Real or image ?

Now tell me...is this cow part of the picture or real ???

[img]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3179/2...3d285535_o.jpg[/img]

Regards :)

deffo part of the picture, look at his hind, you can see the overlap however, his face looks pretty real

The top of the cow image looks to have been cut from a dark background - there are little dark "bleed" areas particularly at the top of the head and around the horns. It maybe due to other editing or cloning out but it is suspicious. Overall it has been well done. Personally I do not usually care how an image is formed provided I like it and it works. I do not approve of natural history, journalism or any photographs being presented as real life having anything other than minor adjustments in PP but for everything else anything goes.

I have just spotted what it is I will wait for other comments. Sometimes there is another option. :)

Some photographs need to be true for the rest it does not matter.

I would say that it is not real, when looking at it you can see lines in the wall that carry all the way through the cow as the wall that it was painted on was not smooth.

Cheers: Allan

I would guess it's 3 layered images - lines as per Allan, signs of a selection line in places round the cow and the crisp focal plane or rather lack of it in one place where it should be crisp.

John
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all i see is a board with a cow on it which has been placed in the grass ???

Billboard taken at a low angle to include the real vegetation in the foreground
If you look up where the top line of printing ends, through the two narrow bands of blue below you can see a seam, which transits vertically all the way down through the cow (where the white rump spot meets the black).
There's also streaking that's continuous through the blue background and the cow itself.

Be interesting if the 3 shots could be posted and others could have a go.

John
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Originally Posted by Ruffy

all i see is a board with a cow on it which has been placed in the grass ???

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I'd say the grass is also part of the board, judging by how the right hand seam also appears in the grass.

Argument:
Premise 1: If we look at the fullsize image, there are some stretch marks on the cow, in a pattern that continues througout the outdoor.
Premise 2: As far as I know, cows, unlike women (and also men), don't have stretch marks.

Conclusion: The cow is part of the outdoor, wich is, by the way, pretty much worn out by the weather.

Gotcha, havent I? :)

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Originally Posted by Otavio

Argument:
Premise 1: If we look at the fullsize image, there are some stretch marks on the cow, in a pattern that continues througout the outdoor.
Premise 2: As far as I know, cows, unlike women (and also men), don't have stretch marks.

Conclusion: The cow is part of the outdoor, wich is, by the way, pretty much worn out by the weather.

Gotcha, havent I? :)

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Because I would be in mortal danger if I called it a stretch mark I will call it a seam.

There is a seam or panel joint on the rump of the cow that drops vertically from the top of the wall until it disappears behind the real grass growing in front of the wall that has a picture of a cow standing in grass.

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Originally Posted by pnodrog

Because I would be in mortal danger if I called it a stretch mark I will call it a seam.

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Spoken like a married man!

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Originally Posted by Colin Southern

Spoken like a married man!

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Yes, I have the options of being brave or happy...;)

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Originally Posted by pnodrog

Yes, I have the options of being brave or happy...;)

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As they say, it's better to be happy than right!

looks real to me..

I think that it is a Russian cow!

Dear friends,

Let me makes thing clear for you ....

It was a hoarding for cattle feed i saw on the road side; when i watched it on the monitor, i saw the real grass merging very well with the grass in the picture creating an illusion (not to all ;) ) that the cow stood midst. I must admit that i don't ever try adding layers and merging because i still have to learn that ;) . Ruffy (Paul ) got it right.
Thanks to ALL :)

I knew that...yeah right I did. :D

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Originally Posted by Wavelength

Dear friends,

Let me makes thing clear for you ....

It was a hoarding for cattle feed i saw on the road side; when i watched it on the monitor, i saw the real grass merging very well with the grass in the picture creating an illusion (not to all ;) ) that the cow stood midst. I must admit that i don't ever try adding layers and merging because i still have to learn that ;) . Ruffy (Paul ) got it right.
Thanks to ALL :)

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Thats a first for me.....or so my wife will tell you all :D