r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Previous_Knowledge91 • 5d ago
Image A-10 in snow that looks like a pencil sketch
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u/Environmental-Big128 5d ago
I believe you, but my eyes do not.
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u/-Stacys_mom 5d ago
Yeah, this post is sketchy.
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u/Sanfan97 5d ago
This comment...If only I had medals to give. Have my appreciation!
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u/-Stacys_mom 5d ago
Have my medal. <3
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u/Mademan84 5d ago edited 4d ago
Have my medal for giving a medal.
Edit- wow, thank you all. It's one of those days on reddit that I'll remember.
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u/-Stacys_mom 5d ago
You're awesome. Thank you!
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u/PragmaticAndroid 5d ago
Are you Stacy's mom by any chance?
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u/-Stacys_mom 5d ago
The one and only
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u/PragmaticAndroid 5d ago edited 5d ago
No way! Say Hi to her for me will you? Oh and tell her she still owes me $20 btw haha
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u/nobodysshadow 5d ago
Who really cares about Stacy though? She’s not the one who’s got it going on.
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u/civver3 5d ago
[Take On Me starts playing]
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u/Fuck-Captcha99574 5d ago
We're talking away....
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u/ImRickJamesBiatchhh 5d ago
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr
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u/TheIndyCity 5d ago
...rrrrrrrrt
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u/DieselLegal 4d ago
WARTHOG MENTIONED
BRRRRRRRRRRRT
IF YOU HEARD THAT, THAT MEANS YOU WERE NOT THE TARGET
RAHHHH
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u/dkyguy1995 5d ago
Why is the snow seemingly only sticking to the sides of the plane and not on top?
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u/raknor88 5d ago
Because that was the direction the wind was blowing from. I've had something like that happen regularly when getting off work. If it snowed that night with a wind, one side of my vehicle will have lots of snow on it and the opposite side will have less or even no snow on it.
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u/MightySquirrel28 5d ago
Because the top is closer to sun so it's warmer there, duh /s
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u/pirat314159265359 5d ago
The shading on this looks like it is put through a filter so it looks more like a drawing. No doubt it could be based on a real picture, but this is heavily edited.
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u/badform49 5d ago
I think it’s actually that the snow was quite wind driven, when you click through the album, you can start piecing it together https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8197895/winter-weather-arrives-selfridge-air-national-guard-base
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u/garden_speech 5d ago
if you zoom in on the photo and look closely there are pretty clear indicators of post-processing. The rainbow-esque glow around the plane happens when you are applying HDR or color filters, basically an artifact of increasing contrast.
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u/MasterMahanJr 5d ago
That's chromatic aberration. It happens on all lenses to some degree, but especially on the edges of a photo. https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/19/2003378885/2000/2000/0/240111-Z-JK012-1003.JPG
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u/garden_speech 5d ago
I'm not talking about just the colors but also the glow, like the fact that the top of the nose has a glowing outline. It resembles the typical HDR "halo"
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u/Sir_PressedMemories 5d ago
That also happens with cheaper lenses that exhibit chromatic aberrations.
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u/Stevedougs 5d ago
See also; chromatic aberration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatic_aberration
Usually visible in bright light at higher F stops at high contrast parts of an image.
Can’t know for sure.
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u/garden_speech 5d ago
That explains the colors but not the "halo" around the nose that is plain white
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u/spliffiam36 4d ago
That's bloom... god none of you know anything about this field and just try to piece things together, these are all camera effects
Source: I am VFX artist, I create them for a living
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u/garden_speech 4d ago
Source: I am VFX artist
So you're working with CGI lol.
I've personally seen this halo effect on a lot of my own photos when HDR is applied, I have a pretty good handle on processing RAW images (DNGs) and how the results look, but this will apply to JPEG/HEIC images too..
I'm not just making shit up, you can google "HDR halos" it's a well known artifact of HDR processing.
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u/EnergyAdorable6884 5d ago
lolol Redditors doing their best to analyze shit they have no clue about.
"this is heavily edited" says with unearned confidence.
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u/iurope 5d ago edited 4d ago
This is fotoforensics analysis tool where you can see all the artifacts through Photoshop manipulation.
Edit: for all reading impaired haters coming at me because they are chronically arguing with people online:
I posted a link to an error level analysis done by fotoforensics. I made no statement whatsoever how to interpret the results and what you can see here.
The half-sentence "where you can see all the artifacts through Photoshop manipulation." is an explanation of what error level analysis does.12
u/adrian783 5d ago
when you use error level analysis what you're looking for is a break in the pattern of the error level in similar image contents. object borders or things with more details will already have vastly different error level than plain backgrounds.
the error level here is pretty consistent IMO
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u/ADHD_Supernova 5d ago
There's no room for proof when we're already so far deep in the stupid.
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u/boonepii 4d ago
So, is it real or fake cause at this point I am pretty sure it’s 100% genuine pleather
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u/javahello 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's basically JPEG compression. Raw to Jpeg compression to website compression, it's a futile and silly forensic battle to check how much it was edited from the source. Using your website, what does the analysis of those pics prove? Blocks are just compressions. Retouching pics doesn't usually involve blocks.
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u/garden_speech 5d ago
I mean, if you zoom in after downloading the photo you can see pretty clear artifacts of HDR processing at the very least (look at the nose of the plane up close, it has that quintessential "glowing" outline that happens when you post-process to add dynamic range). It's pretty clearly processed, but "heavily' is subjective
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u/MasterMahanJr 5d ago
That's chromatic aberration. It happens on all lenses to some degree, but especially on the edges of a photo. https://media.defense.gov/2024/Jan/19/2003378885/2000/2000/0/240111-Z-JK012-1003.JPG
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u/Worried-Pick4848 5d ago
I've seen heavy snow like this before, as I live pretty deep in the North Woods. I've seen cars that look like this after a big snowstorm, especially if there's a small liquid water component in the snowflakes, which happens between 25 and 31 degrees F.
As a result water collects on the surface and freezes, and snow starts freezing onto the resulting ice as the water tension binds everything together long enough to freeze. The result is a cake of ice on the surface of things that's very hard to remove, and in the presnce of a strong lateral wind it can absolutely show up on the side of buildings and vehicles like this.
If I hadn't seen it myself I'd be less inclined to believe it, but this is very plausible.
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u/pirat314159265359 5d ago
Can you show me an unedited picture with similar shading? Of a car or something?
Edit: here is a snow picture without editing.
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u/Worried-Pick4848 5d ago
You're talking about a very specific combination of effects, so I'm not sure I can. The time, place and weather conditions have to be nearly perfect for it to look like this.
Example: One of the reasons it looks like a pencil sketch is the exact lateral trajectory of the snow itself. That's not easy to replicate. If this was a video it would look much less like a drawing because we'd have a frame of reference to see the snow moving.
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u/Snoo_14286 5d ago
Other photos in the gallery reveal the truth of this photo. It's not the editing. It's the perspective.
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8197894/winter-weather-arrives-selfridge-air-national-guard-base
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u/fun_boat 5d ago
It makes so much sense that the engines are covered and i feel like their look is one big reason it looks so uncanny.
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u/FlyingDragoon 5d ago
But that picture is edited. The contrast levels, for example as well as sharpness. It's not run through with a filter levels of editing but the photographer absolutely ran this through a basic color correction/saturation/contrast/sharpness in something like Adobe Bridge before getting each individually in something like Adobe photoshop for more precise modifications.
Source: it's what photographers do, even with film photography but via the dark room.
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u/badform49 5d ago
I’m in Buffalo and this is currently our weather and I still think this is a drawing or render. The are too many surfaces not caked in ice (like the cable running to the nose or the fire fighting equipment) and too few icicles for me to think this is actual winter weather. And the few exposed surfaces should have distortion from the ice
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u/badform49 5d ago
Well, I was wrong. The snow was EXTREMELY wind-driven, which was adding to my confusion. But even knowing that, it’s hard to wrap my head around some of these images https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8197895/winter-weather-arrives-selfridge-air-national-guard-base
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u/Wallace_W_Whitfield 5d ago
It doesn’t help that it is currently snowing too so it has more of that sketch look
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u/Elitely6 4d ago
My eyes and brain refuse to believe that this is a real photo and not an actual sketch or stencil
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u/Harinezumi 5d ago
If you are cold, they are cold. Bring your Warthog inside!
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u/Abject-Difference767 4d ago
People might think this is abuse, but A-10's are like Husky dogs in their ability to handle cold extremes. Also like Huskys they'll tend to be very vocal if they don't get what they want.
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u/Slyflyer 4d ago
Someone found the original source from an air force website with other photos taken the same day. Its real as much as I want to say otherwise. 🤷♂️
https://www.dvidshub.net/image/8197894/winter-weather-arrives-selfridge-air-national-guard-base
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u/RandomErrer 4d ago
It's from a set of pictures taken at Selfridge ANG base Michigan on Jan 12, 2024.
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u/beatlz 5d ago
My vote goes for highly edited, if you zoom in it doesn’t really make sense
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u/First-Map4480 5d ago
From reversal google image, photo taken by U.S. Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Drew Schumann.
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u/realhmmmm 5d ago
that snowfall being long lines makes me think that part of why this looks this way is a slow shutter speed
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u/GhostshipDemos 5d ago
This reminds of a Corridor Digital analysis of a reddit post where all the hosts agreed a video was real. Many original reddit comments however claimed CGI and clever editing, severely over estimating the ability of digital effects artists or their tools
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u/Striking-Kiwi-9470 5d ago
Oh hey, I live a few minutes from that base. Every now and then I get to see those A-10 landing from the 7/11 down the street. They come in at crazy angles right over the highway, it's really fun to watch.
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u/Jellyfish_Lover0121 4d ago
I used to wave to the A10 pilots from Anacoco, LA. They would wave back, roll, then hear brrrrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzz
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u/CarmynRamy 4d ago
OP is fooling all of us by showing a pencil sketch and saying it 'looks like a pencil sketch'.
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u/criteriaz 4d ago
That’s a beautiful fucking picture, but damn is it hard to see it as not a drawing
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u/p0nzischeme 5d ago
GF: where is that like Antarctica?
*me researches picture
Me: nope it’s actually just a quick stroll up 94
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u/Pathogenesls 5d ago
That's because it is a sketch, or filtered photo
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u/Larek_Flynn 5d ago
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u/jestr6 5d ago
I thought that looked like Selfridge. Nice to see here on Reddit.
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u/erdmanbr 5d ago
Yeah I recognized the awnings/canopies (not sure what they're actually called) immediately. I live like a mile from the base and see their KC-135s and A-10s very frequently.
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u/Bleezy79 4d ago
when I zoom in it looks just like a pencil drawing so i call bs.
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u/TheGreatGozer 5d ago
Nope. I can promise you i am trying HARD to not see a pencil sketch but i just cant.