Smoke and wires

April 29, 2015 1:22 PM

Why those 'amazing' macro photographs of frogs aren't what they seem (Previously)
posted by mippy (12 comments total)

Proven by drawing a straight line between two points. I wonder if my sixth grade math teacher is ultimately behind this.
posted by Willy Wombat at 1:40 PM on April 29, 2015 [7 favorites]

Next they're going to tell me Anne Geddes photos aren't real either.
posted by St. Peepsburg at 1:46 PM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

It's like The Fake Detective got bored and moved from celebrity nudes to frogs.

Is The Fake Detective even still a thing? I'm not gonna google him here at work.
posted by bondcliff at 1:49 PM on April 29, 2015 [2 favorites]

I swear!

He was just doing it! Singing and dancing.... come on little guy, come on! .... had the little top hat and cane--the whole bit. Dammit frog, don't make me look like a fool in front of this producer!

I swear!
posted by General Tonic at 1:57 PM on April 29, 2015 [44 favorites]

Seems to be missing the crucial point that frogs have perfect posture, amazing physicality, and an uncanny instinct for the camera.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:23 PM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

Check out my flea circus sometime. I'll show you something simply spectacular.
posted by alex_skazat at 2:35 PM on April 29, 2015

Oh, I see the fleas, mummy! Can't you see the fleas? Clown fleas and high wire fleas and fleas on parade... A wee trapeze, and a merry-go... carousel and a seesaw. Petticoat Lane. Really quite wonderful.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 2:40 PM on April 29, 2015 [4 favorites]

This makes me sad.
posted by Hermione Granger at 3:12 PM on April 29, 2015 [8 favorites]

Please tell me Michigan J Frog is still real.

Wait, they remade One Froggy Evening? What is up with that?
posted by GuyZero at 4:24 PM on April 29, 2015

I'm genuinely surprised that anyone with a familiarity with macro - let alone with the ability to judge for a Nat Geo comp, could have thought that the rain in those dragonfly shots was natural. It's clearly coming from a hose or spray gun.
posted by smoke at 4:29 PM on April 29, 2015 [2 favorites]

I'm too tired to respond adequately, but, yes. Nat Geo photogs and their Photoshop-enabled editors interact with and modify (without harm) wildlife. All of those frogs and snails and lizards and things then went on to muse "What the fuck was THAT?"... while Americans in a Doctor's waiting room in Ohio go, "Oh! That's neat! Rainforests are cool! They also give us fresh air, you say?"

(I kind of wonder what's become of their R-Mount lenses now that Leica's given it up. Their stable of German glass was legendary: enlisted photojournos picked either Cannon or Nikon and had the full array of Japanese glass available, or the M-series Leica rangefinders with the sadly limited array of rangefinder lenses. Artists and adventurers picked the Leica R4 SLR.)
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:55 PM on April 29, 2015 [1 favorite]

Now people are going to doubt the photo I took of a slug orgy under my garden stairs.
posted by JLovebomb at 1:26 AM on May 1, 2015