I'm almost certain, there are no jellyfishes big as this one, in the picture below. Never the less, I can't seem to figure out how this illusion took place. It would be easy if the scuba diver was behind, and the jellyfish was just infront of the camera, then "relative sizes illusion" would be possible. However, it seems that the diver is infront of the jellyfish (or is he?). Can someone help me solve this?






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  1. Anonymous jimbob 

    photoshop, brilliant photoshop....

  2. Anonymous Loke 

    Accroding to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_organism):

    "The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest cnidaria (jellyfish) species, with some attaining a bell diameter of 2.5 m (8 feet) and tentacles as long as 30 m (100 feet) or more."

    Now, the jellyfish could be swiming towards the camera in some weird way, having 30 metres of tentacles behind it. The driver is only in front of the tentacles, not the jellyfish proper.

    That, or the picture is modified. :-)

  3. Anonymous Leendert 

    Someone is good at photoshoppin'?

  4. Anonymous rene 

    i'd say, that's photoshop. dude...

  5. Anonymous Bas Wels 

    I'm thinking the diver is actually a reflection in a glass sheet... That would explain how the diver can be farther away, but appear in front of the jellyfish.

  6. Anonymous _aa_ 

    photoshop.

    Original: http://diverssite.com/billeder/diverssiteintern/giant_jellyfish.jpg

  7. Anonymous Ke!Th 

    Really bad Photoshop job... 8-(

  8. Anonymous Mitch 

    thats totaly photoshop

    I manipulate pictures all the time

    this one was done pretty poorly

    the divers colors are off hue to the rest of the colors in the picture.

  9. Anonymous bigstusexy 

    I believe the image is altered, and more than photoshop is capable of doing such.

    The image _aa_ linked to is also obvisouly altered, quite interesting the area the diver is in doesn't follow the pattern of the rest of the sea. Also it appears to be to circles at that, perahps over use of the cloner tool form a small area? There seems to be repeating pubbles comming from no where either. If you look slightly you'll still see the divers case fadded in the tenticles.

    The article picture doesn't, doesn't mean anything though because there are many was of removing marks left by those programs.

    The linked picture mentions Adobe, and Ducky (I've seen ducky mentioned in anoter picture hmm...)


    the linked picture has had its levels changed and there has been some channel loss. There black areas are too black and couldn't have the detail of the one posted.



    As for the original picture the diver seems more affected by light than the jellyfish. Also the case he is holding seems a bit sharp in contrast to the other object. Finally the guy seems way too close, if it was that big I don't think he'd want to get that close for safty.

  10. Anonymous Paolo 

    Yeah PS for sure, and not even that great.

  11. Anonymous CC 

    Yep, photoshop for sure

  12. Anonymous lulu 

    me thinks photoshop too. good stuff though.

  13. Anonymous Dave 

    Interestingly that link leads to an image with a suspiciously photoshop looking smudge like something has been removed and you can still see a little of the dark spot where the divers light(?) overlaps the tentacles. Stranger and stranger.

  14. Anonymous bobbbbbbb 

    photoshop definatly

  15. Anonymous Deda 

    I find it quite funny you can clearly see that the "original" _aa_ mentioned is (poorly) photoshopped from this optical illusion pic..

    The fact that the diver has lost it's color but the jelly hasn't is a dead give away of this not beeing a giant jelly. If it is photoshopped it's not very well done. I'd like to think this is some kind of optical illusion. PS would be so boring.

  16. Anonymous davo 

    possible double exposure on the camera, jelly fish shot took first, then diver shot second.

  17. Anonymous cool 

    This has to be a fake scuba diver.It looks like a toy, and the jellyfish looks like a mushroom.

  18. Anonymous Embercom 

    ^ the pic u posted just photoshopped him out.

  19. Anonymous Embercom 

    OOO i got it "World's smallest human being"

  20. Anonymous James 

    are we sure it's a jelly fish. I don't recall ever seeing a jelly fish looking like that.

  21. Anonymous Beth 

    yeah, i agree with james…it doesnt look like a jelly fish

  22. Anonymous beth 

    i agree with james, this looks nothing like a jellyfish. and loke, this picture looks nothing like the one on wikipedia.

  23. Anonymous Daisy 

    that is pathetic photoshop. no offence, but it's just a simple cut and paste, nothing special involved

  24. Anonymous John 

    It's not even a real JELLYFISH!

  25. Anonymous Dave Goodman 

    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_jellyfish.html

  26. Anonymous Ash 

    You beat me to it, Dave Goodman. Yes people, there really are jellyfish that are that big.
    This is no illusion. *shrugs*

  27. Anonymous James 2 

    have you ever been in the ocean things fade out the farther away they are. now the diver and jellyfish are headed away from the camera. which means the jellyfish should be more faded than the diver. granded if the jelly fish is really that big then you would see some detail but the diver looks too faded compared to the jellyfish. definatly fake.

  28. Anonymous Nova 

    This IS a real jellyfish people.
    And its Big but the Diver is photoshoped, badly i might add. There are many speices of jellyfish and many of them look very different from one another. this is just one example. those who dont think this is a jellyfish and have it in there heads that jellyfish are small and translucent.
    now thats true sometimes but not always. there are some extremely strange jellyfish speices out there. like this one called the Periphylla peryphilla
    http://www.seawater.no/fauna/Nesledyr/images/DSC01522.jpg
    http://www.seawater.no/fauna/Nesledyr/images/DSC01582.jpg
    and yes those two photos are the same jellyfish.
    The Jellyfish in the photo is real and the diver probably is too but there from different images. The jellyfish is
    A lions mane jellyfish from behind and sort of an angle.
    and if you think it looks like a mushroom dont be fooled,
    allot of jellyfish look that way, like the compass jelly or the sea nettles. its bulbus apearance comes from the fact that this individual was contracting its perimeter when this photo was taken which is how all jellyfish swim.
    sort of like opening and closing an umbrella but without the umbrellas metal ribs, instead the jellyfish uses a large musscle. So when its closing or "contracting" its bell the water in the underside of the bell kind of balloons the animal making it look sort of bulbus. you can
    probably bet right after this shot was taken the bell opened again, making the bell rather flat looking from the front. Also if i might add, you can tell that this animal is somewhat large because of its coloration and the number of folds on the bells rim when its contracting, this one has quite a few. I Personaly wouldent be suprised if this specimen was fairly close to the size the photoshoping is trying to make it apear.

  29. Anonymous gjsmo 

    There was a national Geographic post a while ago about giant jellyfish - The jellyfish is real and is in reality about half the size that you see it as. However, this IS photoshop.

  30. Anonymous qwart 

    that picture is photoshopped but there are jellyfish that are like 10 feet in diameter

  31. Anonymous sarah:) 

    eezy
    the jelly fish is right in front of the camera
    the diver is farther away
    no photoshoppin yall
    its an ILUSION!!!!!

  32. Anonymous Mimes aren't creepy 

    All of you guys are freaking annoying, OK, all that is needed is for a few people to say its photoshopped, not every f***ing person online jeeze. This site is supposed to be for ENTERTAINMENT not complaining how badly something's photoshopped. ok, I'm done ranting

  33. Anonymous Seraphor 

    I don't know, It might not be photoshopped.
    But it's definately an illusion.

    Read what Loke posted.
    8 foot diameter, 30 foot tentacles.
    It could be an angle like this:
    http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/9222/jellyfisillusionwd4.jpg

  34. Anonymous Coralie 

    i tink its not photoshoped
    yet not real
    it is a illusion
    i think
    and that diagram is a good way of discrbing it
    the reason the diver is so dark and not the shade of the jellyfish is because he is further away from the camera
    making him darker

  35. Anonymous mystery 

    maybe the picture was taken in the other direction( jellyfish on the left) and then switched

  36. Anonymous Marnix 

    i'm not entirely sure but i have a sneaking suspicion that the this might be a Photoshop 'altered' picture...what do you reckon?

  37. Anonymous Dave Noel 

    Here is a link to a photo of an actual giant jellyfish. I saw footage from this in the new movie "An Inconvenient Truth". See related news story

  38. Anonymous Anonymous 

    The "original" that _aa_ has posted has definitely had the diver photoshopped out of it. The obvious shade difference in the water gave that away. The diver is actually most likely there, and is actually farther away as Loke mentioned. The tentacles being what looks to be only 10 feet (considering the diver is around 5-6 feet tall) is the clue to this. I hope i could clear something up here.

  39. Blogger Lime and Aquamarine 

    Pssh!!! what if it was just a plastic scuba diver from a fish tank!!!

  40. Anonymous Anonymous 

    might not be that fake...

    http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e051208a.html

  41. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Alright i see something else not having to do with the diver or anything. You see teh jellyfish where teh tentacles are attached to the head thing. Well i see a womans face blowing at the diver...anyone else see that? the tentacles look like her hair going from reddish to white...i think that should be the illusion not the diver.

  42. Anonymous Anonymous 

    its not photoshp, its artwork

  43. Anonymous Anonymous 

    hey,
    i found it. th eimage s potoshoped. i found a website where the photograher posted the picture, the man si not there. some one photochoped him into the pic. the URL is: www.diverssite.com
    that where the pic is without the diver in it. or www.museumofhoaxes.com

  44. Blogger Jackson 

    or maybe its just one BIGASS JELLYFISH

  45. Anonymous Anonymous 

    As a diver, former dive instructor, undewater photog...
    this is fake. No JF this big has ever been reported. If the diver is closer, he should be more colorful than the JF. Underwater, red fades out at about 12 feet from light source to subject to camera. Thus, the JF is only 6 - 8 feet from the camera. The diver is at least 30 - 40.

  46. Anonymous Anonymous 

    Why tf has no-one considered the diver is a plastic toy?! Like, hung in the camera's view on an invisible plastic string?

    I mean, it probably is photoshopped, but why hasn't this plastic theory AT LEAST been considered?

    Somebody tell me if they had already before I mentioned it.

    Sorry, but . . . yeah.

  47. Anonymous rich 

    there is two BLATENT different light sources on this, making it obvious its fake! look how the light comes from the top left of the image (ie sea surface) but the diver is much darker, with a lot less polorization from the light, then the creator has obv tried to lighten the top of the diver, very badly!
    a big joke tbh

  48. Anonymous i*is*awesome 

    totally photoshopped
    ^^
    number 47

  49. Anonymous Q 

    Jellyfish is Bigger

    It is a Portugese Man O' War

    Much larger than a man

  50. Anonymous Anonymous 

    maybe they had a litle cutout of a scuba diver and they pasted it on the camera!!!!!

    viva!!!!!

  51. Anonymous Anonymous 

    two words:portugese man'o-war

  52. Anonymous Anonymous 

    The picture is actually real. Yes, nature is crazy and we know more about outerspace than our oceans, which is why there is not a lot of information on giant jellyfish, but if you simply google 'giant jellyfish' you can read about their sightings and captures off the coast of Japan, where their populations have surged as of recently. I think it's sad that some people can't just believe pictures anymore that we have to always assume something just beyond belief must be the work of some guy and a laptop.

  53. Blogger Phillip 

    I believe that the "part" of the jellyfish that the diver is in front of is really a rock out cropping. Then it is a relative distance thing where the jelly fish is up close and the diver and rock is far back.

  54. Anonymous Anonymous 

    I find it strange that people can't believe things that have been proven to exist. Someone mentioned that this looks "nothing like a jellyfish on WikiPedia". Unfortunately, WikiPedia isn't always true. Don't always assume that things as amazing as these are always photoshopped. It looks like a jellyfish, and for all we know it's undocumented. Very strange creatures live in the oceans of the world. Don't forget that.

  55. Anonymous Anonymous 

    It looks like an optical illusion, bt I think it iz photoshoped cuz the diver's camera/bag/box/wateva is infront of the "tenticals", and there is no thing jellyfish THAT big, and if there was I would be friggen scared if it was a real one, cuz wat if it stung you, you would like die,! Owell, itz still quite kewl. Hahaha. Got me thinking.....




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