re: PLAN Type 052 Class Destroyer
They are definitely two different pictures, not PS versions of the same picture.
The indicators are:
1. The waves are different
2. The flags are fluttering differently
3. Line up different features on the ship, for example the RAM missile launcher with the radome under it, or the bow turret with the front edge of the superstructure, and you see they line up differently in the two pictures, showing the pictures were taken from different angles.
But they are definitely two pictures of the same ship, and no great amount of time could have elapsed between the two pictures
The indicators are:
1. The stains/dishing on the hull side. They match exactly in the two pictures. No two ships will have the same stain and dishing.
2. The man standing in front of the bow turret. He hadn't moved much
3. The water discharge from the hull sides. They are almost the same, the ship is clearly doing the same thing between the two pictures.
4. The angle of the sun to the ship is the same.
If I were to guess, I would say these were part of a sequence taken over several minutes at most from a boat keeping station off starboard bow of the same destroyer.
I think the second picture, the one without the port background, has been manipulated in some way. I think the indicator is the show by the abrupt shade gradation zig zagging across the radome under the aft RAM launcher. This is absent from the 1st picture. I don't think it's a feature of the real thing. I think it is the artifact of someone playing with the contrast in the picture.
They are definitely two different pictures, not PS versions of the same picture.
The indicators are:
1. The waves are different
2. The flags are fluttering differently
3. Line up different features on the ship, for example the RAM missile launcher with the radome under it, or the bow turret with the front edge of the superstructure, and you see they line up differently in the two pictures, showing the pictures were taken from different angles.
But they are definitely two pictures of the same ship, and no great amount of time could have elapsed between the two pictures
The indicators are:
1. The stains/dishing on the hull side. They match exactly in the two pictures. No two ships will have the same stain and dishing.
2. The man standing in front of the bow turret. He hadn't moved much
3. The water discharge from the hull sides. They are almost the same, the ship is clearly doing the same thing between the two pictures.
4. The angle of the sun to the ship is the same.
If I were to guess, I would say these were part of a sequence taken over several minutes at most from a boat keeping station off starboard bow of the same destroyer.
I think the second picture, the one without the port background, has been manipulated in some way. I think the indicator is the show by the abrupt shade gradation zig zagging across the radome under the aft RAM launcher. This is absent from the 1st picture. I don't think it's a feature of the real thing. I think it is the artifact of someone playing with the contrast in the picture.
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