Posted by DiverD on July 22, 2004 at 22:08:15:
In Reply to: Re: Bottomscratcher Too Close the Photo posted by Elaine on July 20, 2004 at 00:54:26:
...hi Elaine, I don't think I've met you but I've seen your photos. They're great. I do retouching at work and the photo's definately the real deal. If you view the individual channels R,G,B, one at a time, at 1:1 view ratio, where the seams woudld be, you can get an idea of how good a retoucher you'd have to be to pull this off, not to mention matching lighting between two shots. The area where the foreground chrome passes over the pump in the background is a giveaway to the absense of seams in the image, going two steps above 1:1 view at this seam shows the jpg artifacts countiuos through overlapping objects, very hard to conceal a seam because of the artifacts. The time stamp would give most folks a prob. Right through a seam.