Cool Unusual Fish Pics

[Flysmallie]

He might have taken all three shots but I looks strongly like a compilation. 

Which I have zero problems with as long as that is disclosed. 

[Flysmallie]

45 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

if you were to go to that much trouble, why a carp????

Once you know what you are doing it's really not that much trouble or hard. 

[Al Agnew]

Yeah, it isn't that difficult to fool the casual viewer.  For somebody like me that uses Photoshop a lot and is trained to see things like edges, details, consistency of light sources, proportions, it becomes a lot more difficult.

Note that in every other photo posted, there is at least some splash and surge of water.  The other photos aren't faked.  That one is.  A couple other things that stand out in it, as I look at it some more...the bird's foot is way too small...I suspect that the foot in the original bird photo was blurred and obscured a bit, and the guy tried to make it look "right" and ended up erasing too much of the toes.  Also, it would be EXTREMELY unusual to get that kind of close-up of the carp and the bird with both in focus, and STILL have the background trees in that same kind of focus.  He would have had to use a long lens to get the action, and in that case the background would probably be completely blurred out.

[fishinwrench]

I don't know jack about anything photo related and I can tell ya that's a fake pic.

I'm actually surprised that y'all (especially Ronnie and Al) are even debating the possibility that it COULD be real.   A better debate would be what type of bird that is.  Looks 1/2 barn owl and 1/2 sparrow.

[bfishn]

12 hours ago, MoCarp said:

 

MoCarp sez; "I can only go by what the guy claims.."

No, you could be objective. Try it sometime.

MoCarp sez: "if you were to go to that much trouble, why a carp????"

Indeed.

[bfishn]

non-carp-related trivia;

Eastern whip-poor-wills don't fly around in the daytime.

[BilletHead]

9 hours ago, Johnsfolly said:

Here's an unusual fish pictute. Probably shoild throw that one back☺!

Defiantly photoshopped,

    I can see all kinds of things wrong in that photo. 

BilletHead

[Flysmallie]

8 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

I'm actually surprised that y'all (especially Ronnie and Al) are even debating the possibility that it COULD be real. 

My initial response had zero doubt. But just soon as I do that somebody throws down a raw file and makes me look like an idiot. I don't need any extra help in doing that. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Is that guy slipping the tongue to that nasty thing?

[MoCarp]

36 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

Is that guy slipping the tongue to that nasty thing?

thats disturbing on so many levels