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RiksTV: Big Hill – Little Skills

Posted on 13 March by Vernon
With barely 60 krone left in his pocket, Lars foolishly opted for the digital fantasy photo at Oslo City, and could only drool while his friends feasted away on Pølser at the food court.

Help me out here.  Part of me says this is not a PSD.  But then I look at how the right sleeve hangs perfectly parallel with those grandstand seats, or how the vest appears so flat and layered on top of him… not to mention the weirdness going on with that gloved left fist, (is that a slit?), and I am convinced otherwise.

Thanks Lisi. You can see the original on the Sport Orf website.

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  • Guest

    not sure about the vest but the sleeve is black and white and the perfectly parallel bit is where black and white meet. if you look close enought you can see that the edge of the sleeve is actually a little lower and it’s not perfectly parallel

  • Samiclaus

    I don’t think this is ‘shopped. Those ski jumping suits are made of some neoprene material and are as large as possible (up to 6 cm from the body – the current regulations). The right arm shows how it looks when the suit lies against the skinny arms of a ski jumper (in this case Martin Koch – here a picture without the bulky suit: http://www.martinkoch.at/DE/foto_beach_2_110814212740_beach_floss_fly.html)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=184101241&ref=tn_tnmn Arec Barrwin

    Not really seeing any kind of disaster here. Everything seems to be fine.

    • Viola

      Maybe the image is not edited, but it isn’t fine either.  The guy is really awkward.

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=184101241&ref=tn_tnmn Arec Barrwin

        It is a rather strange image but i’m thinking it could have been the lens? He does seem rather.. weird lol.

        • AdrianQ

          Yeah, it looks to be shot with a very wide angle lens, which don’t do so well with vertical objects–they tend to make things on the edges “lean in”. (Look at the light poles and top of the building.) I also wouldn’t be surprised if the photo was cropped a bit on the left side, making the effect look even weirder due to asymmetrical barrel distortion. 

      • Waldobaby

         On the ground, maybe. Not in the air!

  • JJ

    whether it is a PSD or not, the image boggles my eyes!

  • Clipping Path Services

    Where is that? I am really confused. Is this a real place or just a photoshop work!!!

  • http://webinventa.com/clipping-path-services.html Clipping Path

    Good share and nice picture.

  • http://twitter.com/JDunneSG J Dunne

    I do think it’s ‘shopped; the vest is the giveaway.  I’ve watched enough ski jumping on Eurosport to know that the outfit is hanging wrong.  The picture almost strikes me as where the guy is standing behind a cardboard cutout.

  • Anon3875

    This is Martin Koch, second at ski flying world championship in Vikersund and winner of the Oslo ski jumping competition last Sunday. As I am a huge fan of his, I can assure you, this is exactly how he looks like when posing after a victory. His right sleeve isn’t parallel it’s just as gray as the stairs. His left sleeve can be closed with a zipper (you can see it, where the blackness ends). His jersey may look flat, but that’s because he is flat like a leaf and the suit is stretching it. His neck is awfully long, but that’s how he looks like.
    This is most definitely NOT a PSD, I’m sure of it.

    • MrMouse

       So he’s just goofy looking & we shouldn’t judge the image is what you’re saying.

      • abcd

         So any photo of him is a PSD because of its look is what you’re saying?

  • abcd

    Definitely not a Photoshop work. The vest looks weird but that’s how the material of those vests looks like.  And since when it became phisically impossible to have your arm parallel to something else in the photo? I understand the need of having absolutely to find a photo to post everyday, but…

  • Maline

    The vest is fine (it is, as Anon3875 says, the grey on the underside of the left (his right) sleeve that makes the meeting of sleeve and stair look strange. The problem is that he’s lost one dimension around his torso. I’d definitely say it’s a cut-out.

  • Byteme

    The image is normal. I just watched a few of his videos on You Tube and the vest does look flat.
    No PSD. Disaster here.

    • Handystl

       yes, he’s wearing a bullet-proof vest underneath. skiing has become HIGHLY competitive

      • qwerty

         Guess you never used a ski vest in your life…

        • Handystl

           no, i ski barechested

  • Bev

    Didn’t we already have a horse picture this week?  ;-)  That was mean, I know.  Bad Bev.

  • Cropper

    Photos that LOOK LIKE Photoshop Disasters?

  • Erich Schicker

    no psd. we had the same pictures on our site. here’s one from a different angle.
    http://www.kleinezeitung.at/sport/schi/schispringen/multimedia.do?action=showEntry_detail&project=72677&picid=17

    • Gwen

      it looks like they shifted him over and put him on a different photo, then created the torso. thats why the edges look funky. the photographer on this photo is supposedly another foot or so to his right, yet the entire body is exactly the same as the other photo, with the exception of the right arm, which may have been digitally shopped to level it.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ariel-Alejandro-Castro-Olguin/100000767641055 Ariel Alejandro Castro Olguin

         well… the photos are actually diferent… but proportions all seem diferent.
        I made some overlays… and it seem that in the new photo the arms are bigger… that couuld be explained by usin a wideangle lense.

        • Gwen

          so, you have a photo taken a step or two aside, at a different focal length.. and the only visible difference between the two is the angle of the ski and the visibility of the side of the ski… so, the ski is highly visibly changed, yet  what is visible on the arm is identical, just raised; as is where the line of visibility ends on the left side of his body. Seems to be an impossibility unless the photo was taken in the exact same position by both cameras, which is impossible given the shift in the background. Which impossibility to believe?

  • crankycatholic

    If you’re not sure it’s photoshopped, then it certainly can’t be a disaster, now can it?

  • Stella

    Not a PsD, just an optical illusion.

  • CragAntler

    Obviously this guy is a ski-jumper, but that doesn’t mean it’s not shopped.  It could be as simple as the desire to create a better background for his victory pose.  I’m not familiar with specific ski jump hills, but the ones I see on TV all seem to empty into a flat basin, whereas this angle would have to be shot from a hill many feet higher than that.  So pasting him into a pure b.g. shot of the hill makes sense since this shot might only be possible if it was arranged and staged at a later time from his actual jump.  Just a theory.

  • CragAntler

    Okay, here’s a video from a helmet cam of a jump off that hill.  There is a rise on the other side, but where the skier stops seems too low to have the b.g. perspective match up nicely.  I think he jumped here, but the b.g. is a separate shot he was pasted into for the sake of a better framed shot than was possible to get otherwise.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=250ekqaFGJo&feature=related