Whale encounter at DOHO? Fake?

[SouthCounty]

Fake?

[PonoBill]

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.

[RideTheGlide]

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.

[PonoBill]

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.

[Zooport]

Yeah, I think there is a color difference that follows the whale as it swims.