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July 5, 2006 by Vurdlak | Share  

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?


Giant Jellyfish Optical Illusion

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72 Responses
  1. jimbob says:

    photoshop, brilliant photoshop….

  2. Loke says:

    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. Leendert says:

    Someone is good at photoshoppin’?

  4. rene says:

    i’d say, that’s photoshop. dude…

  5. Bas Wels says:

    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. Ke!Th says:

    Really bad Photoshop job… 8-(

  7. Mitch says:

    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.

  8. bigstusexy says:

    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.

  9. Paolo says:

    Yeah PS for sure, and not even that great.

  10. CC says:

    Yep, photoshop for sure

  11. lulu says:

    me thinks photoshop too. good stuff though.

  12. Dave says:

    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.

  13. bobbbbbbb says:

    photoshop definatly

  14. Deda says:

    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.

  15. davo says:

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

  16. Embercom says:

    ^ the pic u posted just photoshopped him out.

  17. Embercom says:

    OOO i got it “World’s smallest human being”

  18. Beth says:

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

  19. beth says:

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

  20. Daisy says:

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

  21. John says:

    It’s not even a real JELLYFISH!

  22. Ash says:

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

  23. James 2 says:

    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.

  24. gjsmo says:

    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.

  25. qwart says:

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

  26. sarah:) says:

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

  27. Mimes aren't creepy says:

    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

  28. Seraphor says:

    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

  29. Coralie says:

    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

  30. mystery says:

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

  31. Marnix says:

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

  32. Dave Noel says:

    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

  33. Lime and Aquamarine says:

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

  34. Anonymous says:

    might not be that fake…

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

  35. Anonymous says:

    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.

  36. Anonymous says:

    its not photoshp, its artwork

  37. Anonymous says:

    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

  38. Jackson says:

    or maybe its just one BIGASS JELLYFISH

  39. Anonymous says:

    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.

  40. Anonymous says:

    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.

  41. Anonymous says:

    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.

  42. rich says:

    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

  43. i*is*awesome says:

    totally photoshopped
    ^^
    number 47

  44. Q says:

    Jellyfish is Bigger

    It is a Portugese Man O’ War

    Much larger than a man

  45. Anonymous says:

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

    viva!!!!!

  46. Anonymous says:

    two words:portugese man’o-war

  47. Anonymous says:

    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.

  48. Phillip says:

    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.

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