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Non-Wargaming Discussion => Chat & News => Topic started by: Chad on 28 February 2012, 05:08:51 PM

Title: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Chad on 28 February 2012, 05:08:51 PM
This is quite amazing.

Chad
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Techno on 28 February 2012, 05:52:38 PM
Is that really, real ?
Absolutely astounding if it is !
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Leon on 29 February 2012, 12:15:22 AM
It's an awesome picture, but unfortunately not real.  It's actually been put together using two different images of surface icebergs, one of them flipped upside down, and then another image layered over that one, to make it look like it's underwater.  The size/scaling is all correct though, and is how an iceberg would look if it could be viewed from that perspective.
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Techno on 29 February 2012, 06:42:54 AM
Thought there was something that didn't look quite right.
Cheers - Phil.
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Chad on 29 February 2012, 09:34:20 AM
Thanks Leon. Perhaps I should have put my glasses on first!  :(

Chad
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Hertsblue on 29 February 2012, 09:35:41 AM
Quote from: Leon on 29 February 2012, 12:15:22 AM
The size/scaling is all correct though, and is how an iceberg would look if it could be viewed from that perspective.

Correct or not, it's still a fraud. Particularly as it's presented as fact.  =)
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: Leon on 29 February 2012, 11:55:00 AM
Quote from: Hertsblue on 29 February 2012, 09:35:41 AM
Correct or not, it's still a fraud. Particularly as it's presented as fact.  =)

True, but it's still a cool picture, put together long before Photoshop was so common!  I don't think there are many photo's left which haven't been tampered with in some way, even ones you regularly see in national competitions have usually been fiddled and tweaked to get them just right.
Title: Re: Ice with that Captain Smith?
Post by: lentulus on 29 February 2012, 08:25:39 PM
Now if you want a *powerful* iceberg image, this is my favorite
(http://img.waffleimages.com/e6cc91e9e06fceb9cc4e0c5e1dcfb77bdea53d71/fTLORZVHopfbaod87olFonHJo1_500.jpg)