What's wrong with this picture?

[Alex Franke]

Sorry -- I couldn't resist this. The picture just came up on my little desktop slide show widget and I get a real kick out of it every time I see it, so I just had to share it.

It's a picture of my son on a playground zipline about 3.5 years ago. We included it with no comments in the middle of a bunch of "normal" pictures in a shared online photo album. We had a lot of friends calling up and saying, "what the... ?!?" (The GIMP rocks!)

[pelligrini]

It's pretty easy to spot. Especially in the daylight.

[cabinetman]

My first guess was that he is a micro-mini-midget with one heckuva grip.
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[Richard in Smithville]

I would say that your son has misplaced something.

[leehljp]

Out of curiosity, how many people were photoshopped (OK Gimped) out of the original photo?

[crokett]

Alex, to make it believeable you could edit a shadow back in. That would REALLY get people talking.

[Russianwolf]

Next stop Neverland. Just wait till he tries to glue the shadow back on with soap.

[Mr__Bill]

what's wrong? well he should of had his superman pj's on

[RayintheUK]

Alex, to make it believeable you could edit a shadow back in. That would REALLY get people talking.

Like this?



Ray.

[pelligrini]

Close, but the shadow should be smaller. It looks like the sun is about directly overhead in comparison to the shadows cast by the bench to the left.

[Alex Franke]

Out of curiosity, how many people were photoshopped (OK Gimped) out of the original photo?

I was holding him up there, so just me.

Not many people spot the shadow problem. I think our shadows were combined in the original photo, so I just took a shortcut and left the whole thing out. Not a lot of time to burn with a kid in the house

[Alex Franke]

Like this?

OMG this looks great! You clearly know what you're doing!!

[shoottx]

OMG this looks great! You clearly know what you're doing!!

+1 That is a great jog in a short period of time!

[Alex Franke]

Here's the original, by the way.

[Ed62]

If you've done any amount of image editing, you'll likely notice the missing shadow. But a lot (most?) of people would never notice it.

Ed