Beat the Experts

[BigRed]

Someone pointed me to a page for the Mail Online showing some pictures of polo players (Blazing Saddles! Our man plays the first chukka in the new craze of beach polo | Mail Online) . Now I know everyone uses Photoshop, but these take the biscuit:




Heres the first one of our hero, but look at the path behind him level with his knees, can you see a repeating pattern here? he also seems to have broken his stick thingy, it goes over his shoulder and disappears. So the first tip is when cloning something, keep changing the source point or you get the 'herringbone' pattern seen above.

Look at the second picture and play 'spot the difference'



Does the pose of the middle player look familiar? He has his full stick this time though. If you look at the shadows of the horses in this one they look ok, going back to the first it is obvious that the shadow is from the horse and rider to his right in the second picture and there is a light patch of sand around it which is obviously wrong once you look closely.

On to the third then:



Not too bad, but the logo on his shirt has moved sides. I'd expect the logo on the left side of a shirt anfd the figure looks a bit cut out somehow. The dog sign behind is the right way round and there is a sort of halo around the left front hoof wich suggests some fiddling so I think the horse and rider is a cut out that has been flipped. As an aside the whole picture is crooked. In fact, looking at the first and third picture, I'm sure the dog sign should appear in the first one as well.

I'm sure our members could do better than this.

[keda]

In the 1st pic, the horse's shadow does not sync with the red/yellow sail back right.

[Marmite the Dog]

I actually think the horse and rider in the last pic haven't been flipped for a couple of reasons.

1. The logo on the shirt actually reads ok.

2. He's likely to be right-handed and would therefore hold the mallet in his right hand which he is doing.

Otherwise, you're right. Awful photoshopping.

Here's one I did of one of our members (the esteemed Sir Ken May) a couple of years ago.



And the original

[BigRed]

I actually think the horse and rider in the last pic haven't been flipped for a couple of reasons. 1. The logo on the shirt actually reads ok. 2. He's likely to be right-handed and would therefore hold the mallet in his right hand which he is doing.

I agree with 2, in fact you have to play polo right handed, it's in the rules, otherwise you would have two horses smashing into each other when there is a tackle. Regarding the logo though, where has the one gone that was on his left in the other pictures?

[lovethai]

i like MtD's Vanity Fair. nicely done i think.