Firstly, and most obviously to me, the sky doesn't match the horizon. The white cumulus in the background is missing its bottom, so the sea has clearly been pasted in front. The scale of the clouds relative to the land is also wrong, and there are no shadows from the clouds or reflections of them in the sea.
Secondly, the depth of field between the seagull and the background is impossible. You'd need a practically pinhole aperture to achieve that, at which point the fastest sensor/film in the world couldn't let you get down to the ~1ms exposure needed to catch the bird without motion blur like that.
So it's a composite of at least three images: the sky, the land, and the seagull.
I'm not in anyway saying this photo isn't fake. That said; The sea gull could well be stationary if there is a headwind. So the lack of motion blur could be for real.
Except that it's flying at nearly 90 degrees to the wind direction as indicated by the waves.
Also, in that position over the flat top of the cliff, it would be sinking rapidly in the curlover if it wasn't flapping. In order to soar the lift from the cliffs in that wind, it'd need to be flying out beyond the edge.
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Firstly, and most obviously to me, the sky doesn't match the horizon. The white cumulus in the background is missing its bottom, so the sea has clearly been pasted in front. The scale of the clouds relative to the land is also wrong, and there are no shadows from the clouds or reflections of them in the sea.
Secondly, the depth of field between the seagull and the background is impossible. You'd need a practically pinhole aperture to achieve that, at which point the fastest sensor/film in the world couldn't let you get down to the ~1ms exposure needed to catch the bird without motion blur like that.
So it's a composite of at least three images: the sky, the land, and the seagull.
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That said; The sea gull could well be stationary if there is a headwind. So the lack of motion blur could be for real.
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Also, in that position over the flat top of the cliff, it would be sinking rapidly in the curlover if it wasn't flapping. In order to soar the lift from the cliffs in that wind, it'd need to be flying out beyond the edge.