December 28, 2007: Spanish Carving

[Rusty Mail]

I'd say it's shopped. I can can see artifacts around the suit, and carvings have a higher contrast than the suit.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Whoops, it seems that carving is on the New Cathedral, which is adjacent to and built to shore up, the Old Cathedral. The New Cathedral wasn't started until about 1550 AD, and took a couple hundred years also.
But the fact remains, that Astronaut was carved before the American revolution, at the latest.

Look here.

Or here

[Grismar]

Originally Posted by Rusty Mail

I'd say it's shopped. I can can see artifacts around the suit, and carvings have a higher contrast than the suit.

I love these comments. They put most of the "it's shopped, I'm certain" posts in threads that don't get resolved as conclusively as this one into proper perspective.

Besides, just seeing artifacts doesn't mean it's shopped of course. Could just be a shabby case of jpeg optimization or even just mistaking shadows for something else. (face on mars, anyone?)

Greetings, Grismar.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Grismar

Besides, just seeing artifacts doesn't mean it's shopped of course. Could just be a shabby case of jpeg optimization or even just mistaking shadows for something else. (face on mars, anyone?)

Right you are. It's almost impossible to find a photo on the web that hasn't be altered/resized/compressed, in some way.