photoshop, brilliant photoshop....

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. :-)

Someone is good at photoshoppin'?

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

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.

photoshop.

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

Really bad Photoshop job... 8-(

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.

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.

Yeah PS for sure, and not even that great.

Yep, photoshop for sure

me thinks photoshop too. good stuff though.

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.

photoshop definatly

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.

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

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

^ the pic u posted just photoshopped him out.

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

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

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

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

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

It's not even a real JELLYFISH!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

might not be that fake...

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

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.

its not photoshp, its artwork

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

or maybe its just one BIGASS JELLYFISH

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.

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.

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

totally photoshopped
^^
number 47

Jellyfish is Bigger

It is a Portugese Man O' War

Much larger than a man

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

viva!!!!!

two words:portugese man'o-war

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.

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.

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.

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.....