Getting back to when the shot was taken, if I was a betting man I’d say quite recently. I’m convinced it’s not a scan from slide film back in the 70’s or 80’s.

If you enlarge the LBG shot there’s loads of speckles, minute hairs etc in the sky, now compare that with the second of the P40 shots, also note the dust bunnie circled in red, the sky’s clear of these artifacts. Sure you could clean these up in editing software but somehow that would destroy the authenticity.

Another point why I think it was taken in the “digital age” is that news travels fast as we all know, look how these photos have stirred up so much interest globally within a week!

Surely if these had been taken donkeys years ago they would have surfaced long before now through a friend of a friend of a friend.

I’m sure there are real gems of photos up and down the land in attics that haven’t seen the light of day yet, but they will clearly be from prints or slides.

BTW really enjoying reading everyones opinions, turning out to be a good thread fake or otherwise!

Cheers
Tim

OK chaps this is my take on the photos!
As a photographer one thing that I look for in any pictures that are of interest is the exif data from the original digital file, this data is embedded in most if not all digital images, however, I’m not certain whether this is the case in all models of camera phones.

The exif data tells you basically the type of camera, shutter speed, aperture etc, but most importantly in this case the time and date when the photo was taken.

Unfortunately, this series of photos doesn’t appear to have this data embedded so I can only think that it has been deliberately removed. Kind of think that’s a strange thing to do if the person who took the shots is just a bit of a happy snapper!

Data is only removed if you don’t want others to know what settings have been used, it’s basically being a bit protective I guess.

Anyway, here’s a couple of enhancements I’ve come up with, you can in some instances yield a little more info converting the images to b & w and playing around with levels, sharpness etc.

Must admit it’s looking like the real deal the more I look at these shots.

Cheers
Tim

Any idea as to what time the event starts and finishes? Being pretty local I’d like to pop along to grab some shots of the flyers. Must admit couldn’t see much info on the website, although it could be my age!:)

Cheers
Tim