January 5, 2008
Fake UFO Photos
Want to know how to manufacture your own UFO photos? Tom Callen reveal how he uses UFO models he creates using white soap, a hobby knife and sanding and spray paint and super glue. Hollywood uses the similar tricks on their special effects shoots .
After the model is created, he shows you how, using a neutral background to photograph a “cut out” that allows one to super impose the model UFO into any photograph you want it to appear in. He also shows how he introduces blur and horizontal motion to simulate reality as well as foreground objects.
Using Paint Shop Pro saved JEPEG format files are used to composite the final images. He uses an astronomy program Starry Night Pro to calculate the altitude above the horizon and azimuth around the horizon for the Son so the UFO has the proper lighting and shadows as real objects in the photograph. You’ll need that and other neat tricks to make a photograph believable to fool the experts.
For the complete article and a lot more details on the how to see: http://csicop.org/si/2003-09/faking-ufo-photos.html