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Re: Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2019, 06:13:21 PM »
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Re: Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2019, 06:41:17 PM »
I'm going with a real video of a whale swimming, dropped into a video of surfers. The water color for the entire triangle of whale and wake is a different color and the surface has a different texture. Well done, sort of, but I bet at high res it would be easily detectable. the youtube compression algorithms mask a lot of artifacts by introducing so many of their own.
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Re: Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2019, 09:03:13 AM »
Besides getting a professional opinion it's real (my earlier post), another reason I think it's real is that it's not a ridiculous event that is incredibly rare. It hasn't happened to me, but I have herd and read a number of first hand reports of various marine mammals coming in close for a look when people are in the water. Why go to all that trouble to doctor a video when it's something that isn't extremely unusual? I think the variations in water color are from increased reflection at different angles and changes in the bottom color.
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Re: Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2019, 10:27:10 AM »
I've had plenty of close up whale encounters, Chan watched me get hosed down by a humpback on a Southside downwinder that was as close to me as any of those surfers. I can still kind of taste that. I have no professional status, just an opinion. But as to why people go to a lot of trouble to doctor video? That's easy--because they can.
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Re: Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2019, 06:33:20 PM »
Yeah, I think there is a color difference that follows the whale as it swims. 
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