Hanging by a thread

Recently recieved this picture in an e-mail.

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2007/h...with-jesus.jpg

And was wondering if it was real. And if it is, if anyone has any details? Poor guy!

[bthyb]

Looks a little to glurgey to be real.

[BoKu]

That statue has in the past been a BASE jumping launch point.

I don't see a shadow of the jumper on the side of the statue.....

[Stoneage Dinosaur]

It appears to be Felix Baumgartner.

[Buckle Up]

I'm no expert but just by looking at the outline of his body, it looks very Photoshopped to me.

[TuFurg]

Originally Posted by Buckleupp

I'm no expert but just by looking at the outline of his body, it looks very Photoshopped to me.

What looks very Photoshopped about it?

Great timing on the shot for sure.

[remarkgullabull]

Originally Posted by TuFurg

What looks very Photoshopped about it?

Great timing on the shot for sure.

Because all photos on the board are shopped.

The usual arguement is that shadows look out of place, parts are blurry in sections, etc. You can't really tell from this photo because there is already shadow on the side of the statue.

It appears as though the guy was base jumping and either his chute got hung up or maybe he is actually in mid-jump.
::: shrug :::

[RLS]

First if you look at the rest of the shadowing it would be photoshopped if there was a shadow of the jumper on the statue. The light is coming from the front and the jumpers shadow would be in the trees somewhere in back of him. Second, I think the camera was focused on the jumper thus the background would appear more blurred. Third it is the image that is linked to earlier.

[JoeBentley]

Stonage Dinosaur is right, its from the December 1999 incident involving world famous sky diver and base jumper Felix Baumgartner, completing the lowest base jump in history, only 38 meters. The picture is accurate, however it misrepresents what happened as Baumgartner did in fact clear the statue and is not actually hanging from the statue's arm.

[callee]

Originally Posted by JoeBentley

Stonage Dinosaur is right, its from the December 1999 incident involving world famous sky diver and base jumper Felix Baumgartner, completing the lowest base jump in history, only 38 meters. The picture is accurate, however it misrepresents what happened as Baumgartner did in fact clear the statue and is not actually hanging from the statue's arm.

That's for sure. I mean, the link that stonage dinosaur gives actually contains the OP's picture as part of a sequence, and in that context you can clearly see not only that it is real but that it is simply a matter of perspective: that it only happens to look in that shot like his shoot is tangled on the arm but in fact he was quite clear of it.

I don't understand how there could be multiple posts continuing to question this image after stonage dinosaur's link!

[One-Fang]

Two reasons:

1. People don't follow links.

2. The linker doesn't give a lot of information with that link. From what is given, I would have imagined it was a site about this guy, perhaps with photos of other base jumps he'd done, but not necessarily anything about this one. "It appears to be.." doesn't exactly say "I found this, it's here". Making links that are definitive answers much clearer encourages people to look at it - eg "It is Felix Baumgartner. You can see it in a sequence here - link."

[TuFurg]

Originally Posted by One-Fang

Two reasons:

1. People don't follow links.

2. The linker doesn't give a lot of information with that link. From what is given, I would have imagined it was a site about this guy, perhaps with photos of other base jumps he'd done, but not necessarily anything about this one. "It appears to be.." doesn't exactly say "I found this, it's here". Making links that are definitive answers much clearer encourages people to look at it - eg "It is Felix Baumgartner. You can see it in a sequence here - link."

I think you summed it up with #1;-)

Actually, quite honestly, for me it was #2. I saw "It appears to be Felix Baumgartner". I thought to myself "I have no idea who this guy is, and I don't really care who the guy in the picture is. The link probably links to a Wikipedia article or something about him". I had no idea this was actually the key to 'debunking' this picture.

Not saying it was Stoneage's fault -- just bad assumptions on my part (and evidently other's part too)

-Tim

[TuFurg]

Originally Posted by Rehcsif

Actually, quite honestly, for me it was #2. I saw "It appears to be Felix Baumgartner". I thought to myself "I have no idea who this guy is, and I don't really care who the guy in the picture is. The link probably links to a Wikipedia article or something about him". I had no idea this was actually the key to 'debunking' this picture.

Not saying it was Stoneage's fault -- just bad assumptions on my part (and evidently other's part too)

-Tim

But doesn't that mean that your issue was actually failure to click on the link? Perhaps you didn't click on the link due to lack of info, but had you clicked you'd have had the answer. I usually click a link no matter what because apparently someone feel it's pertinant- of course that's often not the case

Originally Posted by TuFurg

I usually click a link no matter what because apparently someone feel it's pertinant- of course that's often not the case

I guess I'm too used to Wikipedia, where most articles have every third word linked. Indeed, check out their article on Felix Baumgartner:

4 links in the first sentence alone(the only one I'd really consider valid is BASE).

Not sure why people feel the need to link years, common countries, etc, but that's the Wikipedia Way...

Here's a much wose example, half the first paragraph is blue...

-Tim

[Stoneage Dinosaur]

Originally Posted by One-Fang

The linker doesn't give a lot of information with that link. From what is given, I would have imagined it was a site about this guy, perhaps with photos of other base jumps he'd done, but not necessarily anything about this one. "It appears to be.." doesn't exactly say "I found this, it's here". Making links that are definitive answers much clearer encourages people to look at it - eg "It is Felix Baumgartner. You can see it in a sequence here - link."

Fair comment, I'll try to be clearer in future.