Flying saucer spotted over Portsmouth, page 3

Just to fill you all in on a few things...

His website is at: shipu.co.uk with full contact information available so its not too hard to contact the guy and ask him for the original nef file. (the chroma noise on the pic looks like a nikon at a high iso to me, though with honesty its impossible to be sure without the original)

You'll note that a lot of his work involves 'heavy' post processing via photoshop. So strictly speaking its Digital art, not photography as you can also gather from the following titbit from the uni of portsmouth:

University of Portsmouth

Habibur Rahman
Habibur Rahman, 27, is a Portsmouth-based photgrapher and recent graduate of the University of Portsmouth's School of Art, Design and Media.

With support from Cibas, he has embarked on a freelance career creating and exhibiting his artwork and is developing a portfolio of clilents as a photojournalist including, Portsmouth Football Club, City Life Magazine and The (Portsmouth) News.

He said, "Cibas advisors taught me about copyright laws and how to protect my work, which was something I hadn't thought much about before. It's important if I'm going to sell my work. The advisors are in tune with how creative people think but they also have great business sense."

And also from one of the comments on the Portsmouth news has something to say.
Comment 4

Things to note:

The Image was processed on a Mac or within a mac profile as you can see if you read the header of the images within the jpg.
The system used was registered to
"H a b R a h m a n / S o l e n t N e w s a n d P h o t o A g e n c y S o u t h a m p t o n"

Also the username was Ducky...

That said, none of these particular factors condemn the image as a fake.
The Color is easily explained as a high iso with a slightly warm color balance in combination with the sodium arc glare of the road lights reflecting from the fog and it would be unusual for a light reflection since there appears to be no visible ghosting. (Though, again here the image is too small to be able to guarantee that)

At this stage though any discrepancy within the various representations we have will be due to the fact that the image has been jpg'd and will contain serious compression artifacts.

If anyone can shoot me down, fire away. I'll be interested to see how this one turns out.

[edit on 13-2-2008 by Absence of Self]

[edit on 13-2-2008 by Absence of Self]