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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
Wow!
That is really dishonest.
And he entered it into a prestigious Photo Competition! 
What a fool.
My Snake Valley by Night image is 2 images combined but at least I admitted it.
I focussed on the sky and went click for 10 seconds, then refocussed on the Foreground and went click for another 10 seconds (the light on the sign and grass is from my car's parking lights which was parked about 30 metres away!). Then I combined the 'focussed' foreground with the 'focussed' sky.
It even won a local Photo Competition, but I said how it was taken when the organisers asked.
I tried many times to get both the foreground and sky in focus at the same time with no luck, so that's why I combined the two frames.
At least mine is taken at one location, just 2 different focal points.
But geez, to try and pass it off as real! 
Here's mine so you can see what I mean. You can tell it's Focus fiddled: |
Great image-well done on the win! I imagine everyone here would have explained how they did something like this before they put it up in a comp.But many people do try to cheat,and its good the image in the NZ comp was removed.
I spoke with some judges after a comp held recently in this district,Its amazing what some people will try and do,He said there was a lady that won a few nature comps with butterflies on shrubs etc,The judges figured what she was doing was putting a butterfly in frezer to slow it down a bit then putting it in a white box,taking photos and then taking another image of plant and blending them-struth! Sounds like so much work to fake it!!
The amount of time and effort it would take to fake something,I really cannot see the point.There will be always someone somewhere that can pick it in an instant-and explain very well why its so.
Its nothing short of visual fraud.well done to the judges of this NZ comp.