Is this real or photoshopped?

[cmayna]

Wow, just found this pic and was wondering, isn't that Mt. Fuji? It looks so unreal....... :naug

 

[AzPete]

I think the pilot in the fourth plane is photoshopped in......that guy cannot fly. The rest has to be real.....lol

 

[KBMWRS]

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol
You ol' basssturd. I know at least one of those planes is carrying F-bombs.

 

[beach pony]

yeah, I think it looks a little photoshoppy to me. But I can't say for sure sitting in my hole in the wall here in the PNW.

 

[Sluggo]

Deja-vu

 

[Sacbill]

Are those Air Force? Navy? Marines? All? I see USAF insignia on some of them.

And shouldn't Craig's original post have included this? :dh

 

[napaguy]

LMAO If you arent a former/current vmf'r you probably wont get it....BTW its definately 'shopped

 

[Anonymous]

What about those of us suffering from CRS syndrome??

 

[lethal289]

come on Pat. Explain it ... :vic

 

[KBMWRS]

Are those Air Force? Navy? Marines? All? I see USAF insignia on some of them.

All Navy (includes Marines)....Star and bars is a US insignia. AF doesn't own any of those models shown. An no it not Photoshopped...."You need to get out more" :scar :lol :dh

 

[Sluggo]

All Navy (includes Marines)....Star and bars is a US insignia. AF doesn't own any of those models shown. An no it not Photoshopped...."You need to get out more" :scar :lol :dh

So how do you explain the fact that at least 3 of the planes cast a completely different shadow and none of the shadows match the background?

Magic?

 

[Anonymous]

That's one of those optical dillusions, kinda like the lunar landing pics. Amazing what a photo will do with light!

I know it's real, I'm the guy flying the second from the last jet. That was back when I was super cool.












Phew, I'm back from my mental hiatus.

 

[Midlife]

Photoshopped. Can't you see in the 2nd plane from the rear has its exhaust pointing back instead of downwards to clear the wheel lowering linkage?

 

[Sacbill]

I found it HERE, but I guess it wouldn't be the first time the government used Photoshop.

 

[daveSanborn]

I was on a non-voluntary hiatus when this came up back on the VMF.

I don't see how this photo is photoshopped. It looks real enough to me.


Recently here at MCAS Cherry Point our Harrier training squadron ran into some good maintenance fortune and launched in celebration 20 of their Harriers. It was an odd site to see a 20 plane formation of Harriers zipping over our heads..... I'd NEVER seen a 20 plane formation of Harriers before and likely never will again.

When I worked in Japan as the Powerplants Division Production Control Chief, we built most of the engines that power the naval aircraft for the FarEast. I see no reason why that photo would have to be photoshopped. Mt. Fuji is just a hop/skip/jump from Yokosuka NB and it would likely be easier to coordinate a Carrier Air Wing Group photo op flyby than the effort required to have to photoshop it.

 

[KBMWRS]

So how do you explain the fact that at least 3 of the planes cast a completely different shadow and none of the shadows match the background?
Magic?

Com'on...that response doesn't have any real grit to it unless there are F-bombs involved. :lol :lol :lol :lol :vic

 

[Sluggo]

Check it out. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CVW-5_Apr2007.jpg
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[daveSanborn]

So the only possible reason that the owner of the photogragh would use photoshop would be to assemble different pictures of different aircraft and place them in front of Mt. Fuji to give the appearance that all of the jets were there at the same time?

Couldn't he have just used photoshop to "crop" or "resize" the picture?


I'm not saying that the photo isn't "photoshopped", it very well could be. I just don't see any reason why it would have to be. When I lived/worked over there it was not uncommon at all for pilots to return to base with pictures taken by their wingman with Mt. Fuji as a backdrop. I have an old "cruise book" from 1980 that features a few A-4M SkyHawks in a similar picture with Mt. Fuji as a backdrop.... and this was WAY before the days of home photo editing.

Has anyone contacted the photographer to put this issue to rest once and forever?

 

[Sluggo]

Here's the same Hawkeye over Mt. Fuji. Not the same aspect, but this pic was taken two months earlier.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/64/E-2C_Hawkeye_and_Mount_Fuji.jpg

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[daveSanborn]

Notice that even in this second photo depicting only the E2-C's that photoshop was listed as being used.


So is every photo taken by the US Navy featuring their aircraft in front of Mt. Fuji not legitimate because "photshop" was used to enhance the photo?