Photo Experts... Real or Fake...

[Nefarious]

That's a huge Jellyfish.

[deSelys]

Nah, that's a tiny scuba diver

[MoeRon]

fake


http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/4187/

[Marauding Conan]

Fake. The diver would have been death if he got that close to it.

[Anaxogoras]

Having worked at an open-to-the-public aquarium and learned quite a bit about marine life, I'm inclined to believe this is genuine.  It might not be, but some jellies are massive.  This one would be impressive for its girth, but some are much longer.

Fake. The diver would have been death if he got that close to it.

Wrong.  It's usually the small ones that are the most venemous.

[Anaxogoras]

Did a little searching.  Apparently, the largest species can have a bell diameter of 8 feet.  Perspectives are hard to judge in photos, but I think it's safe to say this one is larger than 8 feet.  If it is genuine, then the perspective is skewed to make it look larger than it really is.

[Anaxogoras]

Compare side by side.

[MORAY37]

Fake.

[Angus]

Fake.
And by the way, even the big ones are nasty. That is if you rank the portugese man'o war as one. Threads up to 150 feet long, all nasty and stinging poisonous...

[Denholm]

Heck of a job on the photoshop.

[Anaxogoras]

I wish the photo were larger, but here are my former coworker's bare hands holding a moon jelly:

Yeah, he got in trouble for that when the photo ended up in the newspaper.

[Nilsen]

Fake..

And the big ones are dangerous too.

[Anaxogoras]

In fact, far more people are killed by jelly stings every year than shark attacks... The latter is always whipped up to a pinnacle of hysteria by the media.

[Die Hard]

Compare side by side.

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The second picture is the fake one. The diver has been photoshopped out. You can still see part of the camera he's holding and the area where the diver should be is clearly smudged out compared to the graininess of the rest of the photo.

I'm inclined to call the first picture real.

[Cthulhu]

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The second picture is the fake one. The diver has been photoshopped out. You can still see part of the camera he's holding and the area where the diver should be is clearly smudged out compared to the graininess of the rest of the photo.

I'm inclined to call the first picture real.

As you say, the Photoshop work to remove the diver is obvious. But that doesn't mean the first photo is any less fake. If you take a picture of Elvis and Big Foot at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and then "Photoshop" out Elvis, does that suddenly make the original picture real?

(That appears to be a Nomura's jellyfish, but way too big to be real. The real one's are ~6 ft in diameter)