Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on December 6, 2012 at 8:14pm

Cough, that's an accurate representation of what most of that type at model scale ends up doing ;-)

Moderator Comment by Nathaniel Caner on December 7, 2012 at 3:39pm

When I saw this image I immediately thought it was a composite! I took about 20 minutes and I found 2 out of three of the images that make up the 'art'. I found both the foreground and background images but the guy in the hazmat suit is more challenging. Can you find the missing image?

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomwatson/1389557019/sizes/l/in/photo...

source: http://www.secretsofthefed.com/drone-crashes-rise-at-airports-w-video/

Who can find the last image first?

Regards,

Nathaniel

Comment by Jesse on December 7, 2012 at 3:46pm

Here it is: http://papundits.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/hazmat.jpg

You'll notice the hazmat guy has been "mirrored".

Moderator Comment by Nathaniel Caner on December 7, 2012 at 4:26pm

Jesse,

Good catch! I was looking for an image that might have been mirrored but I thought he was pushing a wheelbarrow!

What did that take about a half hour to debunk the hoax! Not bad for amateurs!

Regards,

Nathaniel

Moderator Comment by Nathaniel Caner on December 7, 2012 at 5:12pm

Just for fun I quickly recreated the composite but I left a few small differences. how many can you find?Regards,

Nathaniel

Comment by Jonathan M on December 7, 2012 at 6:48pm

That's too funny.  I went to UCSD and studied aerospace.  Would have been interesting to be on campus when this went down.  Lots of strange art at UCSD.

Looks like I can still be the first (that I know of) to take aerial shots of the place.  This guy just crashed his rig ;)

Moderator Comment by Brian on December 7, 2012 at 9:57pm

Yea, your's is better, plus you have the orange cones.

Comment by W. Joe Taylor on December 7, 2012 at 11:33pm

Nat, have ta agree with Brian. Yours is way better, except I think the "artist" intentionally blurred the background to focus on the crash and hide the " compositeness".
Enjoyed this. Sometimes this site is too serious and the comic relief from this is a saver.

Moderator Comment by Nathaniel Caner on December 8, 2012 at 6:01am

Thanks guys and yes I agree I think the author intentionality blurred the background image to give focus to the drone. He also muted the intensity of the colors in the Hazmat suit. I think it would have been a bit more believable if he hadn't blurred the background quite so much. The lighting was good though, that's usually one of the dead giveaways in composites. In this case all three images appear to have the lighting from about the same direction. That's probably why he 'mirrored' the guy in the Hazmat suit in the first place. Anyway I agree with you Joe I think this was a fun distraction to the same-old same-old stuff here. Thanks to Chris for giving us some comic relief!

Regards,

Nathaniel

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