Fake Photo Challenge

[Operaider]

This is an idea that that guy who juggles came up with in the Million Dollar Challenge section. I thought it might be fun so I'm starting a thread here.

Fake Photo Challenge

The idea is to see who can come up with the best original photo of a paranormal happening. It can be of anything you want. UFO, ghost, Bigfoot, psychic ability. The only rules are it must be an original photo, and it must be of something paranormal.

Post your pics on this thread, then after we get enough of them we'll start a new thread with a poll to vote for the best.

So get your grainy cameras

Fire up your photoshop




oh, and if you are somehow able to take a picture of a "real" paranormal event. :D
I guess you can submit that too

[CFLarsen]

There's a fantastic site, Worth1000.com, that regularly runs competitions on faked photos. Some are brilliant.... (http://www.worth1000.com/emailthis.asp?entry=55449)

Here's some more... (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=169)

[MRC_Hans]

Already posted this in another context, but...

Orbs in my basement!

http://www.hans-egebo.dk/images/orbs01.jpg


No photoshoping, though. They are real.

Edited to add: OOps, it's HUGE. Sorry about that.


Hans

[Operaider]

I think that's where That guy who Juggles got the idea.

I thought it might be fun to see some of the photos that the Jref members could come up with.

The real fun will come a couple months from now when we find the photos on woo woo websites posted as proof of the paranormal

[CFLarsen]

De-Hoaxed (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=380)

Ghost World (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2996)

Ghostly Evidence (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=332)

Ghostly Evidence (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=481)

Ghostly Evidence (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=1843)

[Operaider]

It's too bad that site has all their pics copyrighted.

some of those would make great avatars

[CFLarsen]

Originally posted by Operaider
The real fun will come a couple months from now when we find the photos on woo woo websites posted as proof of the paranormal

Absolutely!

[thatguywhojuggles]

Are we allowed to use photoshop, or do we have to figure out natural ways to set up paranormal looking shots?

[Dr Adequate]

From the OP:
Originally posted by Operaider
So get your grainy cameras

Fire up your photoshop

[Operaider]

Originally posted by thatguywhojuggles
Are we allowed to use photoshop, or do we have to figure out natural ways to set up paranormal looking shots?
I figure the people who create the fake paranormal photos get to use any means possible so we should be allowed to also.

Anything goes, It just has to be an original picture. No stealing stuff off of other sites.

I was wondering, does anyone have any suggestions on where we can find help on how to properly fake these pics? I remember an article in skeptical inquirer a few months back that showed several techniques on faking UFO photos. Anyone have any web sites that can assist on techniques?

[Ashles]

Here's my first 'discovery'.

Scientists in Antarctica came across a remarkable discovery, but before they could take more than a couple of photos the ice fractured and the artifact was lost to the ocean as the spring thaw loosened millions of tonnes of ice on the edge of the ice sheet.

[kedo1981]

Lets up the aunty (pun intended) and say the “photo� has to be submitted to a WOO WOO site before being posted here

[c4ts]

Does this show up? It won't let me remote link it.

http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/fakedphoto.gif

[Operaider]

Originally posted by kedo1981
Lets up the aunty (pun intended) and say the “photo� has to be submitted to a WOO WOO site before being posted here Might be interesting but I'd be afraid of getting a good picture posted on a woo woo site and then having them claim that it was truly a picture of something paranormal and that we were only posting it here to discredit it.

I'd much rather have it posted here first, so they can't claim we took it from them.


waiting for sunset so I can take my UFO pic

[Operaider]

Originally posted by c4ts
Does this show up? It won't let me remote link it.

http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/fakedphoto.gif i don't see anything

[Nex]

Originally posted by c4ts
Does this show up? It won't let me remote link it.

http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/fakedphoto.gif
It's not coming up for me either. If you want, you can email it to me as an attachment and I'll host it for you for a short time.

[c4ts]

http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/index.html

Does that help?

[Nex]

Originally posted by c4ts
http://www.angelfire.com/alt/c4ts2101/index.html

Does that help?
Yep. That link works. :D

[Operaider]

Couple sites I found on how to fake photos
Some are redundant

http://www.csicop.org/si/2003-09/faking-ufo-photos.html

http://www.skeptic.com/UFO-Pages/UFO-Intro.htm

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~vdmeulen/deeper/Articles/UFOfake.html

http://www.fakeghost.com/

http://www.ghostresearch.org/ghostpics/

[Azrael 5]

Originally posted by kedo1981
Lets up the aunty (pun intended) and say the “photo� has to be submitted to a WOO WOO site before being posted here
Getting on a woo woo site would would be a start!!!:p

[geni]

A rod

[c4ts]

Originally posted by geni
A rod

Aha! So rods hide in lens flare!

[Ashles]

Geni - why did you crop the picture?

Were you afraid of the truth that would be revealed if you showed the full photograph?

[c4ts]

I still say my blurry U.F.O. in the corner is ABSOLUTE PROOF that aliens are messing with our photographs!

[IllegalArgument]

You should submit this to Fark for a photoshop contest.

[c4ts]

Originally posted by Ashles
Geni - why did you crop the picture?

Were you afraid of the truth that would be revealed if you showed the full photograph?

So the flying Cadilac shoots rods?

[Operaider]

Hey Doc Ad,

The picture you posted in the other thread doesn't work.

What was it?

[Ashles]

Then there was the 'toast' incident this morning...

[Operaider]

That is a great picture :D

You should mail that to Randi

[FFed]

I took this photo last year, off the coast of British Columbia. I saw a Coast Guard helicopter coming so I took of photo of it as it went by. When I loaded it onto my computer I saw a UFO above and to the left of the helicopter.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v391/asagan/hell.jpg

[Dragonrock]

Originally posted by CFLarsen
Ghost World (http://www.worth1000.com/cache/gallery/contestcache.asp?contest_id=2996)

Claus, some of the pcitures from this contest are quite touching. I've already set the Yuri picture as my background.

[Azrael 5]

Those are clever pictures in that link,must set to work on my own...:p

[jambo372]

I had a few of orbs.

[Ed]

Obvious fakes to date.

I am surrunded by the paranormal. It is life defining for me. Other people talk about aruas, I can produce them at will....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Incitatus/ed.jpg

And again.....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v62/Incitatus/DSCN4018.jpg

Look upon my works ye mighty and dispair........

[Temporal Renegade]

Originally posted by Ashles
Geni - why did you crop the picture?

Were you afraid of the truth that would be revealed if you showed the full photograph?

Hey, wait a minute! I thought this was a 'Fake' Photo Thread!


Everybody knows that Supercar is real!!

[rightbrain]

I'm new here, and it's about time you left-brain types came up with something for us creative types. :D

Needless to say, this image was NOT visible when I took the picture. But when I developed the film, I was shocked to see what's obviously a real ghost... I tell you, it made my blood run cold.

[jk143]

Here's one I did a while back for spoof site I made about the paranormal for a class.

James

[Dr Adequate]

You LAUGHED at me, you said I was CRAZY... but I TOLD YOU THEY COULD FLY!

Who's crazy now. Huh? Huh?

[misawafan]

Originally posted by Ashles
Then there was the 'toast' incident this morning...

That would be one helluva thing to see first thing in the morning - it startled me just seeing it here online...

[Ed]

Originally posted by rightbrain
I'm new here, and it's about time you left-brain types came up with something for us creative types. :D

Needless to say, this image was NOT visible when I took the picture. But when I developed the film, I was shocked to see what's obviously a real ghost... I tell you, it made my blood run cold.


Ummm...(how to break this to a new poster....)

Uh.

Hula hoops are neither paranormal nor scarey (unless being used by a naked obese person).

[rightbrain]

You're not looking closely enough...

[Azrael 5]

I saw it,but I wont spoil it .....:D

[Ashles]

Oh you get that ghost with all Ikea furniture.

'Tis the ghost of bad assembly instructions.

[rightbrain]

Originally posted by Ashles
Oh you get that ghost with all Ikea furniture.

'Tis the ghost of bad assembly instructions.
Amazing--I'm haunted by that too! Do we have anecdotal evidence here?

[rppa]

Originally posted by rightbrain
Oh you get that ghost with all Ikea furniture.
'Tis the ghost of bad assembly instructions.

Amazing--I'm haunted by that too! Do we have anecdotal evidence here?

I'm pretty sure there's something in Nostradamus about that:

The bookcase stands askew
Despair fills the atmosphere
Missing fourteen of part H
And have seventeen too many of part G

Or something like that.

(I'm really not good at this, but I always thought it would be fun to see a fake-Nostradamus contest. Though not as fun as this thread.).

[B.S]

Hello everyone, this is my first post. Two days before this thread began I inexplicably began making fake ghost pictures. No kidding. When I saw this thread I knew I had to join up and post my results. I hope you like them, these are the best ones so far.

You will see an "orb" moving towards my wife, with evil intent I am sure. Also some ectoplasm falling from my ceiling, and an awful, batwinged demon, and other spirits, all evil of course. These are all real pictures, no photoshop or other manipulation.

I'm off now in search of the perfect fake. If the batteries hold up in my camera.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP03857.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP03859.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New063.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New061.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/Ghost030.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/Ghost069.jpg

[WildCat]

I've posted this here before, how about a pic of cats fighting on mars?

http://home.mindspring.com/~turniton/catsonmars.jpg

That's Payton on the left, and Emmet on the right. Ah, the glory of Photoshop!

[The Mighty Thor]

Originally posted by Ashles
Then there was the 'toast' incident this morning...

You must mail that to Randi. It deserves to be in the Commentary along with the ebay cheese sandwich:D

[Ashles]

Nah, I'd be shy...

[Operaider]

If you don't do it, I'm going to do it

And I'm going to take all the credit :D

[Temporal Renegade]

Originally posted by WildCat
I've posted this here before, how about a pic of cats fighting on mars?

http://home.mindspring.com/~turniton/catsonmars.jpg

That's Payton on the left, and Emmet on the right. Ah, the glory of Photoshop!

What?!? Did I hear someone say, 'Catfighting on Mars?!?!':)

....oh. My mistake. I was thinking of something else.....

[Eos of the Eons]

Mercution made an awesome one. He has posted it on JREF already, but I'll link it...

http://www.members.shaw.ca/tysongill/FL000020.jpg

I'll try to come up with something on my own.

[Eos of the Eons]

Um, any reason I can't post an attachment using the browse option? It's only 8, 000 bytes.

Everytime I hit "submit", the attach file area just clears.

Okay, trying this instead:

http://www.members.shaw.ca/tysongill/Aylena.jpg

[Yaotl]

Originally posted by B.S
Hello everyone, this is my first post. Two days before this thread began I inexplicably began making fake ghost pictures. No kidding. When I saw this thread I knew I had to join up and post my results. I hope you like them, these are the best ones so far.

You will see an "orb" moving towards my wife, with evil intent I am sure. Also some ectoplasm falling from my ceiling, and an awful, batwinged demon, and other spirits, all evil of course. These are all real pictures, no photoshop or other manipulation.

I'm off now in search of the perfect fake. If the batteries hold up in my camera.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP03857.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP03859.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New063.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/New061.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/Ghost030.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/Ghost069.jpg

The ghost ones are really good. Sadly, they look so much better than anything I've seen from actual ghost believer sites.

[Ashles]

If you don't do it, I'm going to do it

And I'm going to take all the credit
That would make you a naughty and bad person.:p

[B.S]

Originally posted by Yaotl
The ghost ones are really good. Sadly, they look so much better than anything I've seen from actual ghost believer sites.

Even sadder is the tiny amount of effort and complete lack of technology (except for digital camera) that was involved. I can't believe the low standards most people have for their belief systems. It would be so easy to sucker people, ... urrr, must go fight temptation to start new "business"...

[richardm]

Imagine my surprise!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/richardm/ghost2small.jpg

Second shot from the same position - she's coming for a closer look at what I'm doing :eek:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v507/richardm/ghost3small.jpg

BTW Thanks to BS for pointing me at Photobucket - that's going to very useful to me. Cheers!

[Yaotl]

I'm going with B.S. as winner so far. After seeing The Grudge not too long ago, those pictures are far creepier than a humanoid ghostie.

[Azrael 5]

richardm Id be more scared by whatever was casting that eerie shadow...

[B.S]

Originally posted by Yaotl
I'm going with B.S. as winner so far. After seeing The Grudge not too long ago, those pictures are far creepier than a humanoid ghostie.

Thanks for the support. I am working on more, hopefully better, pictures, but my camera has gone on strike. Maybe it got scared.

[BillC]

What really happened to it....

[B.S]

Here are some more, just to keep things going.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04363.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04266.jpg

[Eos of the Eons]

Bill, that is the cutest martian ever :D

[B.S]

Come on people, the weekend is coming, get out those cameras and get a picture that will give me nightmares. ( I like haunted house dreams, I wake up and feel like I was at the movies ).

Anyway, here are some of my second best shots, just for inspiration.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04219.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04404.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04292.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04455.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04226.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04297.jpg

[Dr Adequate]

Originally posted by BillC
What really happened to it....
It made me laugh, but the shadow of the martian is paler than the background.

By the way, how are you all managing to post such large images? What's the format?

ETA: when I say "all" I am of course excluding those of you who didn't. I couldn't find any reasonable compromise between size and colour, which is why my flying saucer is so darn cramped.

[TheBoyPaj]

Aparently, B.S.'s pictures were examined by NASA and THEY COULDN'T EXPLAINN THEM.

[B.S]

You know, since they are actual, untouched pictures, I'll bet NASA, or any other expert, couldn't explain them. (wishful thinking). :)

[BillC]

Originally posted by Dr Adequate
It made me laugh, but the shadow of the martian is paler than the background. Our Martian shadows are unconstrained by your puny Earth-bound physics.

[scratchy]

A picture taken from my cottage. Its faked. My boat wasnt there when i took it. Nothing supernatural or extraterrestrial about that though, but look at the upper left corner. If thats not 100% proof of an extraterrestrial goose, i dont know what would be enough to bring about the narrowminded sceptics.

[BillC]

Originally posted by Dr Adequate
By the way, how are you all managing to post such large images? What's the format?The file size limit is 25400 bytes, but this is when the file is directly attached to the message and uploaded to the forum. If you use the IMG tag, you're posting a link to an image which is hosted elsewhere on the web. There's no size limit (or at least it's higher) with the latter method since this doesn't hit the JREF bandwidth.

[alfaniner]

Here's an amazing crop circle, complete with bird...

[rightbrain]

Originally posted by Yaotl
I'm going with B.S. as winner so far. After seeing The Grudge not too long ago, those pictures are far creepier than a humanoid ghostie.

Yes, I'd definitely vote B.S. as winner. Those bat-winged demons are awesome.

[B.S]

Thanks, glad you are enjoying them.

[Kopji]

Ok,
I going to try for something of much less quality so it will be believable. Here's a photo my folks took off our back porch of the sunset back in july. Problem was it was lightly raining. That's the fake story.

The real story is that there are many spirts that live here and we were lucky enough to capture them as orbs.

Orb party on the Kopji back deck:

[BillC]

Invasion of the plasma orbs:

[Kopji]

I would like to add, for the sake of the competition... That my mom (who took the photo) is moderately woo, and the spirits would be WAY more likely to materialize for her instead of any of us. :D

[ScrollMaker]

Originally posted by B.S
Come on people, the weekend is coming, get out those cameras and get a picture that will give me nightmares. ( I like haunted house dreams, I wake up and feel like I was at the movies ).

Anyway, here are some of my second best shots, just for inspiration.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04219.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04404.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04292.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04455.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04226.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/sskeli/DCP04297.jpg

It looks to me like you are messing with the camera's exposure, throwing clothes into the air, and taking pictures of them. That's my guess at what produced those photos.

[richardm]

Originally posted by rightbrain
Yes, I'd definitely vote B.S. as winner.

God damn it, I worked for literally minutes on those pictures and not a shred of recognition


:D

[B.S]

Originally posted by richardm
God damn it, I worked for literally minutes on those pictures and not a shred of recognition


:D

Cheer up, your picture made my sisters eyes water (Thats a sign of fear in our family).

And, nice orbs guys. By the way, it would be irresponsible to throw perfectly good clothes ( or blankets with frilly edges, or used dryer sheets, or plastic wrap, or toilet paper) in the air and try to photograph them. They might get damaged, and somone could get hurt.

[SRW]

THis picture was taken by our campus weather cam.http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/oldwheel2000/detail?.dir=a731&.dnm=5e80.jpg&.src=ph