By Vurdlak on July 5, 2006, with 129 Comments
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?
(15 votes)
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.
^ the pic u posted just photoshopped him out.
OOO i got it “World’s smallest human being”
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.
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
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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
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: http://www.diverssite.com
that where the pic is without the diver in it. or http://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.
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.
thats a real jellyfish
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…..
If you examine the picture more carefully, then you can see that the jellyfish isn’t as big as you think… yes it is big but, however, if you stretch the diver, who is about 6′ then you still have about 1′ or 2 left on the jellyfish, so analytically speaking, this picture could be real.
this jellyfish is actually areal jellyfish… its called the lion’s mane jellyfish, aka the BIGGEST jellyfish in the world. I should know… i am doing research on it… the biggest one found was 8′ in diameter of the bell and like 120′ long tentacles. soo it most likely is a real jellyfish picture. hate to break it to you. of course it only live in cold waters. that could be a good sign. :)
No the diver and the jelly fish is suppose to be seen as the same distance but really the jelly fish is alot closer than the diver.
it is a real jelly fish and that thing in the water is jellyfish poo! it only looks like a diver because the water pressure at that depth has altered it’s original poo form.
it is obviously what doug said or a fantastic photoshop because if it is a real jelyfish not even a lunatic would get that close to it!
there’s bubbles above the diver
if you google this pic, you will find an identical image without the person on the same page.
Its photo shop, the scuba guy has no bubbles.
I agree! Where are the bubbles of the diver???
people this could be a simple as a toy being placed near a jelly fish imo.
isn’t that the man of war?
wow…mitch is pretty wrong…uhh, the light is shining weird so all the colors look off. on myth busters a couple months ago, they were talkin about how the pix of the first moon landing were SUPPOSEDLY fakes, cuz the light and shadows were weird. HOWEVER, they figured out that the lighting from the sun was placed oddly and that the pik was genuine. i think itz just weird lighting and the pik is real :)
LOKE IS A NERD AND NO I CAN NOT HELP YOU
I think it’s photoshopped. To me, the “jellyfish” looks more like an uprooted mushroom of some sort. ._.
I’ll chip in to this one – yes, it is a real jellyfish. I’m no expert but I’ve read about these things in hardcopy books on marine biology.
I’m actually a bit surprised that people are so sceptical it exists. The ocean holds some phenomenally huge lifeforms, and jellyfish are hugely varied and abundant.
there is such thing as giant jellyfishes like this one
I’ve sen giant octopi & giant squid, but I wouldn;t want to be in 100 feet of a giant jellyfish.
This diver might be small toy,I think…
Yes, it is a real jellyfish. The Lion’s Mane jellyfish are the largest in the world, with the body being several metres across and the tentacles being longer than a blue whale. I don’t know if this particular photo was photoshopped or not… I certainly wouldn’t want to swim near one… but it could very easily be real, since the Lion’s Mane jellyfish really ARE that big in comparison to a human being.
Well, I could only find these:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Giant-Jellyfish-Invade-Japan-Poetic-Justice
http://www.uwphoto.no/shopexd.asp?id=8399
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomura%27s_jellyfish
its a small model of a scooba diver
it is real, there is giant people there is giant whales who the FUCK sasys there isnt a giant jelly fish?
I HAVE BEEN TO THE BEACH BEFORE AND SAW A JELLY FISH AND I THOUGHT IT WAS PREEETY BIG BUT THATS SOOOOOOOO HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blow the picture up real big and you can clearly see the blurred blending around the diver. The diver has been photoshopped in and it’s a pretty good job but there will always be that tell tale halo.
Jeez, guys… take two seconds to read just a bit, and you can see how this pic is very easily not a fake.
“The Arctic Lion’s mane jellyfish is one of the longest known animals; the largest recorded specimen had a bell (body) with a diameter of 2.3 m (7 feet 6 inches) and tentacles 36.5 m (120 feet) long. ”
If you stretch out that diver to his full height (He is semi-facing away, and looks very small), you can see that the jellyfish isn’t vastly bigger than him.
Plus, if it’s a short diver, the jelly would look bigger still.
I’m 97 percent sure that is a real jellyfish, but whether or not it’s actual size…
omg if you guys think its fake Ur wrong. if you think its zoomed closer to the camera then look at how many tentacles it has !
umm that thing would be over 20ft in dia. if it was an unedited pic