Michael Phelps; half human, half aircraft carrier. The goggles, they do nothing!
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Thursday, August 14, 2008
TV Guide: Further Evidence Phelps Is Robot
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Breaking world records while keeping that smile on his face...
Yikes! they didn't even grade the face to match the body. Looks like hepatitis.
"Original" WireImage.com image here.
What the HELL is up with his shoulders? Goddamn.
What's the problem? He's 6'7'' or so and his shoulders are really THAT broad. it's an awkward shot but not Photoshopped IMO.
whoa. what up, elephantitis.
Come on Anonymous...haven't you ever watched swimming? They usually use the goggles ON their eyes, not their foreheads. And if you look at every other image of any swimmer you'll see they're usually gasping for air at that point in the stroke. Definitely (poorly) photoshopped.
Notice the lane marker perpendicular to him? The lack of furious kick splash behind him? I think this is post-race, as he's sliding over the markers to get to the side of the pool.
Nothing to see here. Move along.
This is post-race or warm-up/down. After swims, most swimmers move their goggles to foreheads. Hell, he is going over the laneline (notice the red on the right and left)...which would certainly never happen in a race.
I work for WireImage/GettyImages. This wasn't shopped, I swear. For reals. (Well, other than cropping and color-correction, but nothing to change the actual intent of the photo.)
yes Josh, I have watched swimming, but I don't think you have to be a huge fan to see that and this is clearly a post-victory shot; hence the grin, and the fact that he's on top of the lane divider, and the fact that as you so astutely noticed, his goggles are not on. If you watch swimming make sure not to change the channel before it is done, and you'll see every single swimmer takes their goggles off or moves them up and swims away from their lane once the race is completed. They have to get out of the pool somehow.
The total lack of any water sheeting off his face is also a bit of a giveaway.
@Dina: Then that's a fantastic pic, I gotta admit, to get that face while he's still in the pool.
Oh, a Futurama-joke! Me like.
If you actually look at the larger file (image# 13409487 if any of you want to check it out), you can tell he's not actually swimming, which explains why there's no splashes off his face. He's hanging out in the pool, actually pushing down on one of the lane dividers with his hands, and pressing his body upward. Explains why the arms are flexed like so, as well.
Love the blog, no hard feelings-I love seeing what happens to our images after we send them out into the world!
@Dina: Heh, I don't mind being wrong, I just don't want to get used to it.
And it reminds me of one of the classic uses of Photoshop that should go down in some hall of fame somewhere: the hockey streaker.
Phelps is one of those people who was born with a baroque anatomy. Like a penguin, he'd born to swim but looks pretty goofy on land.
His "wingspan" is greater than his total height (usually it's about the same or slightly shorter), he's double jointed (feet turn into flippers and his arms to something fairly loony looking in the water as well) and his legs look weird as his thigh length doesn't marry up with his calf length.
Once again, PhotoshopDisasters is more disaster and less photoshop. As pointed out, this isn't the race. The full caption is:
"Michael Phelps of the United States of America celebrates after winning the Men's 200m Freestyle final during the XII FINA World Championships at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia on March 28, 2007"
PD Fail.
It looks like a loaf of bread with a head. If it's naturally like that, what a weird angle!
look at the part of the chest thats in the water, it looks like hes wearing one of the bathing suits that have to full suspenders, you can see the dark blue/black part on the chest that looks like a bib. but no straps on his shoulders
I can't really blame PSD for this one. Phelps simply looks really, really weird in this picture. I'm having trouble believing this isn't a shop.
Shennanigans. Sorry, love the blog but it's real. Check out Wireimages site for the whole set:http://wireimage.com/SearchResults.aspx?ipp=120&igi=266887&s=michael%20phelps&sfld=C&vwmd=e
Also, props for the Simpsons reference! That's real acid, so I want to see googles people!
It has not been photoshoped.
These kind of pictures are rather common.
@ Andy-look closer. I'm sorry you don't have access to teh hi-res like I do (and of course I can't post it here), but the straps are there. Since his shoulders are hunched up (which is why his body looks funny), the straps are caught in the folds of skin. But you can see hints of them. See that tab of black below his earlobe? That's part of his suit. Harder to see, but there's also some silver on the other side. Trust me, it's there.
Once again, a false alarm at PD. Lame.
Here's a video clip of the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjrf5Lyv0r8&feature=related
it settles a few controversies:
@Josh: Phelps puts his goggles on his forehead after he finishes (shocker)
@Andy: The straps of his suit are flesh-toned...looks at 2:05 on, you cannot see them in the video either.
ANOTHER PsD fail. This is truly embarrassing.
Seriously guys, what is happening with this blog? The only disasters are at PsD HQ.
Boring
LMFAO time to rename this blog: Photoshop disasters disasters!!!
Not photoshopped. Fail.
Rename your post: 'Further evidence that this blog is shit'
Real photo. Phelps has abnormal large armspan to begin with, combined with the awkward angle makes it look bad, but it is indeed real.
I'm a bit surprised that in all these comments there are, as of yet, zero innuendos like, for instance, 'look at those doped-up shoulders'.
What's wrong with me? That wasn't funny. "Someone really doped up these shoulders in Photoshop" - that would've been funny. Sort of.
I don't think this is a photoshop disaster. I just think that Phelps was either celebrating or warming up. He wasn't racing at the time of the picture, and I don't see anything wrong with his shoulders. He's a swimmer, he has broad shoulders. The picture was poorly taken, and makes them look bigger. That's all.
@Anonymous: it's "breadheady"!
finally a quality post!
This guy (or girl?) is damned no matter what he posts. In order to keep people coming back daily to read this blog, he must post a new item daily. To post a new item daily, he needs his readers to send him material.
If nobody sends him new items, or people send him shitty items, his blog will suck that day. It's not easy to just go and find mistakes. So, if all of you are experts, let's see you give the guy some good tips for once.
Cripes.
To think that the world of sports actually shun the usage of steroids...
Look at the picture posted here. Now look at this one from Athens. It is possible he could have grown, but it still looks a lot fubared
http://tiny.cc/DuZGY
Rename this post -- er, blog -- "Where assholes come to vent their spleens in the most unoriginal, uninteresting, whiny, hypercritical, self-entitled, pointless way possible, commenting pissily on a daily basis despite their oaths to never return and generally behave like fucknutting suckholes."
I know it's lengthy but it's ever so descriptive of some of the commenters here!
@Karen: or, maybe they're just trying too hard? Who says there has to be a post every day? Quality, not quantity, etc.
Hey! I'm not self-entitled!
...Maybe Phelps is going to be the new Chuck Norris. "Michael Phelps can't be altered by Photoshop; you have to use After Effects." I, for one, welcome our new massively-shouldered amphibian memetic overlord.
I just discovered this blog and I think that the possible mistake plus comments debating it are great to read. I've seen posts on retouchers forums where everyone was analyzing how a retoucher did such amazing catchlights in the eyes and it turned out the photos were taken in natural light with no PS manipulation.
Anyway, I'll definitely start reading this blog.
Some of you people are dolts. This is so clearly photoshopped, its ridiculous. His head is off center. His shoulders are not that wide. His face is taken from an off pool shot and put on. OBVIOUSLY PHOTOSHOP!
I will remove the blog from the feed. To many non-disasters in the past.
Better I check monthly.
i used to like this blog...
this is a tricky one to call. But I am annoyed at people whining at the blog about what is posted. If there is a doubt that its photoshopped then it is a potential PS disaster. Maybe a POLL button should be added... Photoshop disaster or Not.
This is not a disaster.
He is not racing in thjis shot. Its either at the end of a race, or a publicity shot, but not a PSD!
Too much rush to get PSD entries is devaluing this website.
I think if I check this blog once a month I may be lucky and actually see a photoshop disaster. Shame. This blog was good before it got too well know and started posting shit. Don't feel pressured to update it everyday. If it's not a diasters don't post it.
This site has been removed from my favorites. This site is like Mcdonalds: started off small, got too big, feeding people shit, no quality.
Stop posting rubbish! Are you arrogant enough NOT to listen to all the regular comments about shit posts? If it's not a disaster: DON'T POST IT! If you do, then you're a stupid as the designers you think you're ridiculing!If not more so, because they're not going around pointing out everyone elses mistakes.
How to devalue your blog in ten easy steps...
Real photo. Fail.
Advice to website owners/admin.
Assume photo is real unless you can see for sure that its fake.
Otherwise it makes you as stupid and careless as the idiots who make real PSD!
This photo is real. Phelps is a freak. Huge 6 foot 7 arm span with MASSIVE shoulders. Why do you think he has so many gold medals?
I really do look like this.
Long-standing fan of this blog...
I've stuck up for it against the whingers, who I would really rather just pissed off if they hate this blog so much.
But on this one I've got to endorse what anonymous 2:46 AM says. If it doesn't show indisputable evidence of photoshop incompetence, don't post it. Skip a day, we won't mind. I think it's unreasonable to expect everything posted to be a DISASTER but not unreasonable to expect absolutely zero untouched photos. Pictures of weird looking people are easy to find, as are pictures of people taken against inappropriate backgrounds. But if they haven't been shopped, they don't need to be here.
If any further proof is needed that Phelps is not so much a robot as a monster, take a look here or here.
Keep up the good work. But don't give the whingers any more rope to hang you with.
Most of the whingers here are actually just the same whinger posting repeatedly over a few minutes.
Which is kind of weird.
tom, that's what i thought...
the biggest disaster on this page is the common sense of the whiners: if you don't like it, don't come here.
Time to disable anonymous commenting maybe so that the anon saddos who get their knickers in a twist and post over and over again might think twice.
There are a whole lot of anonymouses around here who take their blog-browsing *way* too seriously.
If I whine self-importantly, "I'm going to unsubscribe to this blog because my valuable time cannnot be wasted by low-quality posts," does that give me more internet-cred? Or do I just sound pretentious and lame?
Worth coming back every day just to see the enormous FAIL that is PSD!
check it out, now your site is being ripped off by a Croatian newspaper :D
http://dnevnik.hr/showbizz/zanimljivosti/foto-propusti-pri-obradi-fotografija-photoshopom.html
most of the pictures in there are from here...
Even if the guy up above is correct (well its not photo-shopped, except for the coloring and limiting of the splash) - the coloring is horrible. When you going to mess with the coloring, matching skin tones is pretty important.
It looks more like his head has been 'shopped onto someone's side as they're diving under again.
@anonymous: Yes, I agree with quality over quantity, but I know as a blogger that if you do not consistently post new material, people will stop reading your blog. Even if you miss just a day or two. Unfortunate, but true.
Busted.
I found the original head part of the pic.
You either have to be really stupid or lived the past years beyond the reality to say that this is NOT photoshopped. My god, open your eyes!
I love this blog, it's funny and I am honestly astonished, how many people like to hate around here. Are you guys some of those poor photoshoppers or what?
It's real. Here's a live action shot from earlier this summer with the same proportions...
http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2008/07/04/phelps-record-swimtrials.html
He is a swimmer, specialty butterfly, requirement/result = massive shoulder and upper arm muscles.
Anon from August 14, 2008 4:30 PM posted a YouTube of the alleged event, and says you can't see the straps because they's flesh colored. In the video, the keen observer (i.e. those with their eyes open) will see his suit HAS NO STRAPS at any point, flesh colored or otherwise, yet the photo in question clearly shows the top of a dark suit. As I posted earlier, the head is obviously taken from another pic, also from Getty, Dina. Care to 'splain that?
I'm amazed at how serious some of the commenters take this site. It's just fun, some of you really need to chill out.
Photoshopped or not, it's a fucked up photo. It looks like a detached head on a disproportionate slab of white-boy.
It's messed up.
Some people need to grow up and relax a bit.
I love this site! The post here are hilarious!
lol he looks so square
"yet the photo in question clearly shows the top of a dark suit."
No, what you think is the top of a suit is actually the lane divider. As stated earlier, he is pushing it down to swim over it. Phelps does not wear a suit with a top.
I'm going with shopped. This is NOT real. If by some crazy stretch of the imagination this IS real then someone call that man a doctor.
I watched the video and looked at the shots, and what I don't get is how come the water is splashing up all under and around his chin and chest? Don't you kind of have to be swimming pretty fast for that to happen? But he's not.
I understand it wasn't shopped, but I don't understand how it got that way. (His shoulders look fine to me.) The effect, because of the way the water is, is of a swimmer/aircraft carrier, just like the commentary said. It does look strange.
What did they stick that poor guy's head onto anyway? How can the person who was preparing that photo be so blind as to not notice the unbalanced proportions and the head angle being so impossibly misaligned with the body. I never yet have seen a swimmer who swam with his head bent backward at a 90 degree angle from his body!
@blumiere
You're really dumb. Here you go, larger version:
http://www.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/olympics-michaelphelps10.jpg
He's wearing a suit with a TOP. There's a clear top (underwater) and straps on each side of his neck.
Is it 'Chopped? I can't tell.
The levels are awful, and the face has clearly been 'Chopped to some extent. I can't tell if the head is on a different body or not, but the color/shadows on the face have definitely been messed with.
I still call it a "Disaster", as should anyone who knows anything about Photoshop.
The color of skin is often very different on face, shoulders, hands etc. Differences in blood circulation often cause some parts of the skin look red, purple, blue or green compared to other parts. No disaster.
heh heh....
I'm willing to chalk it up to telephoto distortion. Looks freakin' awful, though.
Just diggin the simpsons reference. I chuckled.
THIS IMAGE IS NOT PHOTOSHOPPED
THIS IMAGE IS NOT PHOTOSHOPPED
Did you noticed that THAT is a female body??
Phelps always looks weird like this, because he is a digital construct and doesn't exist. He was bought and paid for by corporate sponsors in a swap-deal to save Bejiing from the embarrasment of a failed, polluted Olympic event. The Olympics were staged by Steven Speilberg in a dis-used aircraft factory in Canada.
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