Huge Moose

[Cat_Driver]

Considering that a dirt road can fit 1 1/2 cars across ..... this fellow is HUGE ....

Look at this BIG BOY MOOSE!

THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN NEAR MCADAM
Just across the border from Vanceboro , Maine....

Yes, it is a regular size dirt road.

 

[NSBound]

Uh huh.............someone is getting good with Photoshop......

 

[Willl]

Photoshop

Gota be.

 

[Thomas]

Some body should call Monster Quest.

 

[cowboy357]

From what I understand it is not photo shopped . The so called road is a 4 wheeler path . The size of the trees are rather small & the pics were takin at ground level . The pic has been around for quite some time . Its more trick photography then anything . But then again I see white racoons . Bob

 

[SkyPup]

Awesome

 

[atgreene]

And to think, I didn't get drawn in the moose lottery for a permit this year.

 

[Cat_Driver]

Then this might be his photo shoped brother

 

[Scooby074]

That last one my not be a Photoshop but i think the first one is (at least the second pic). Theres something about the hooves that just doesnt look right to me.

But them mooses are big, ill give ya that

 

[20 20]

Seen them monsters up in Maine before, beautifull animal and the 1st one seen is allways breathe taking. Could easily drive a compact car under one if it'd stand still long enough.

 

[/pine]

The way this image would have been "photoshopped" is by "extraction...i.e., the moose image would have been "extracted" from one image and imposed onto another (background) image...

Usually when this is done (by amateurs) there is often a fuzzy edge visable especially when the background color is much different than that of the imposed layer...

I am not a professional graphics editor but I do have a good bit of Photoshop experience and IMO these images have not been "photoshopped" but that's just my opinion...

If you're interested in learning how to use the (PhotoShop) extraction tool...there are any number of tutorials available...just Google it...

 

[WayneB]

And this is all we get to see around here. She actually crossed the road about 8 feet infront of our truck. I had stopped to take a look at her, but by the time I got the camera out she was running away.

 

[EddieWalker]

Nice picture. He looks like a good sized moose, but I didn't think he was a trophy. I guess he could be since I don't know what the score is on moose from that part of the country to tell if it is or isn't a good one. I think the comments are misleading, especially the part about the road being wide enough to fit 1 1/2 cars across. Four wheeler trail sounds more like it. Knowing that, it's just a nice picture of a bull moose.

Cat Driver,

That's a very impressive moose. I love how the palms tie into the brow tines!!! Most don't have that palmation in the brow tines, and to me, that's just amazing. I don't see anything unusual in the picture to suggest it isn't real. The camera is pretty close the to antlers and the hunter is at the farthest distant, so he looks smaller and the antlers look larger, but that's how allot of pics with the animal are taken. Fisherman do this all the time too by holding their fish out in front of them as far as possible towards the camera. It makes the fish look larger the closer it is to the camer and the further back the person is.

I still haven't shot my trophy moose, but it's high on my list of animals that I want. I've had plenty of oportuities at smaller bulls, and seen some very large ones, but wasn't able to get to them for one reason or another. It's all part of hunting.

Eddie

 

[Wayne County Hose]

Looking at the size of the stones on the road and having travelled a load of dirt roads, it looks like it's a 4 wheeler path and there are small trees around. I don't think you could fit 1 1/2 cars wide on that road no matter how hard you tried.

 

[DAP]

Good Lord, this is clearly photoshopped. 2nd picture is not throwing the correct shadows for pete's sake and there is no light variation on the animal.

Considering that a dirt road can fit 1 1/2 cars across ..... this fellow is HUGE ....

Look at this BIG BOY MOOSE!

THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN NEAR MCADAM
Just across the border from Vanceboro , Maine....

Yes, it is a regular size dirt road.

 

[/pine]

Good Lord, this is clearly photoshopped

the light/shadow were the first two things I considered...

just curious...

just how to you suppose these images were "photoshopped"...

how much experience with 'Photoshop' do you have?

 

[cowboy357]

Sorry but Your wrong IMO . The light, ( little that there is ) Is coming through the very low part of the trees on the left The light in the first pic on the trail is a slight different between the 2 Pic , & the light is showing from the right direction on both front legs , Showing an ever so slight shadow on the trail . Notice the Light differences Between the 2 pics at the right side of the trail , Both sides of the branch laying across . Just My opinion though . Bob

 

[atgreene]

If you've never been to northern Maine and seen the size of the tree's along roads like this, it's hard to associate the size of the bull. He's big, but the road is only a typical one lane log/camp road. I'm not sure it's photoshopped, and I'm not convinced he's a record moose. Just a big moose shot at close range and angle that makes it fill the pic. Moose are big.

 

[Steve_Miller]

This picture floated around my work a year or two ago and if I remember it was validated. The shadows to me are almost identical except where the moose is standing. The light is a little different in each picture probably due to the fact the picture takers camera may have been in the sunlight for one and not the other picture. Not everyone has a $1000 camera when taking pictures. For reference lets say the tree to the left of the moose is four to six inches in diameter, if you reference the tree size to the height of the moose then he is anywhere from seven to nine feet in height with his hind leg anywhere from four to six inches in diameter. This is not uncommon for moose for size, it's just that 99% of the population never see them at this range with respect to a background.


Reference to Wikipedia: Size and weight

On average, an adult moose stands 1.8-2.1 m (6-7ft) high at the shoulder. Males weigh 380-720 kg (850-1580 pounds) and females weigh 270-360 kg (600-800 pounds). The largest of all is the Alaskan subspecies (A. a. gigas), which can stand over 2.1 m (7 ft) at the shoulder, has a span across the antlers of 1.8 m (6 ft) and averages 634.5 kg (1,396 lbs) in males and 478 kg (1,052 lbs) in females. Typically, however, the antlers of a mature specimen are between 1.2 m (3.9 ft) and 1.5 m (4.9 ft). The largest confirmed size for this species was a bull shot at the Yukon River in September 1897 weighing 820 kg (1,800 lb) and was 233 cm (92 in) tall at the shoulder. The Moose of Alaska matches the extinct Irish Elk as the largest deer of all time. Behind only the bisons, the Moose is the second largest land animal in both North America and Europe.


Steve

 

[/pine]

It has become all to common for us to think an image has been altered (sometimes rightly so given the environment of the Internet)

just for the record...I used a program called "jpeg-snoop" to analyze the first moose picture...the program and information about it can be found here: ImpulseAdventure - Digital Photography Articles

The analysis confirmed that the image had NOT been altered...

as a secondary test I opened the moose image in Photoshop (CS2) and I slightly altered the image...I then re-ran the program (jpeg-snoop) and it confirmed that it had been altered and it identified the program I used

below are the two assessments (truncated results)

Original Image

EXIF Make/Model: NONE
EXIF Makernotes: NONE
EXIF Software: NONE

Image I altered

EXIF Make/Model: NONE
EXIF Makernotes: NONE
EXIF Software: OK [Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows]

I understand that this is not 100% fool proof but I have yet to find an altered jpeg that this program did not detect...

as a side bar...maybe some will find this series of tests amusing ...see how well you do in determining which images are real and which are hoaxes

Hoax Photo Test: Level One