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"Self-Portrait With Ground Squirrel" - Real or Fake?

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  • #2
    daycent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 842 ✭✭✭daycent


    It's gotten a lot of press this photo. I'd say it's real, assuming something like a 10 second self timer was used.

    Gotta love the name of the lake, 'Lake Minnewanka'.

    God I'm immature...


  • #3
    unreggd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,835 ✭✭✭unreggd


    I dont think its fake, but I'd say its 100% staged

    They're not in a good spot for a photo of themselves, and the focus on the squirrel is perfect

    Still, its purdy amazo!


  • #4
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,565 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Its real, 100%

    And I'd say its a mix between being staged and pure luck.

    If you actually read the article, it says
    her husband held the remote shutter release.

    so I'd say they setup the shot and then along came the squirell and the waited for him to stand then shot.

    I seriously doupt he just popped up as the photo was being took


  • #5
    Fenster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,763 ✭✭✭Fenster


    My experience with Californian ground squirrels has taught me that those furred devils have no fear. Columbian squirrels cannot be much different.


  • #6
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    What's even better is now there's some website where you can "squirrel-ify" your photos.

    Real or not, staged or genuine, it's a funny shot.


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  • #7
    Hugh_C
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,852 ✭✭✭Hugh_C


    real, no doubt about, autofocus would explain the focus ...


  • #8
    TJM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 548 ✭✭✭TJM


    Everyone knows that squirrels love cameras. Here's one of mine:
    3608195834_b2633e7986.jpg


  • #9
    Ghost Train
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,469 ✭✭✭✭Ghost Train


    TJM wrote: »
    Everyone knows that squirrels love cameras. Here's one of mine:
    http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3647/3608195834_b2633e7986.jpg

    Thats not a camera :pac:


  • #10
    Ricky91t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭Ricky91t


    The second i saw the photo,I thought it's a fake,Thought a shot like that would be MF'd on a selftimer,Didn't read any of the description

    Assumed one of them set the camera on a tripod to take a landscape and the squirrel popped up in front and they decided to make this image by taking another with them in the backrgounf,But then i read it was a remote shutter meaning it could of autofocused,I think it's actually real..


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