Oh okay I checked his weibo apparently this is a merged picture from two shots of quite low quality videos
CV-18 Fujian/003 CATOBAR carrier thread
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PeoplesPoster
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red is also harder to see at night.
It is PSed. The catapults (in green) are all zig-zaged. The other lines in cyan are not. This is impossible due to poor quality, compression artifect, or low resolution enlargement which would have caused universal artifects. There are certainly pieces copy/pased from different sources.
P.S.
When I say PS I mean altering content by erasing or copy/pasting from different sources or locations. Changing tones/brightness/enlargement that enhance existing features are not PS in my definition.
The picture is real but it's been altered along the hull to smoothen it, I can't find the original full sized image but looking at 中国青年报 accounts on douyin and bilibili there is a short video which shows this angle in a panoramic view of the ship in very poor quality, perhaps the full sized was made by stitching the picture together into one big photo + some very bad smoothing effort. done by the CG guy
US aircraft carriers regularly employs colorful jersey uniform, including bright red jerseys. They are not too hard to see at night. Purple and blue color are more darker than red. They have no trouble doing night operations.
PeoplesPoster
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sure, but I imagine reflective striping helps a lot with operator visibility. I'm just stating the well documented fact that red is one of the first colors to lose it's hue in low light appearing dark grey or black, this is just how the human eye works.
I don't deny that someone has seen CV-18 in that angle and taken a photo of it.
But such editing like stitching is Photoshoping in that it is created by alternating the content by "creating" or "erasing" details that is NOT there in the original photo. For example, I take a phto of my car but the wheels are blocked by forground, I then copy and paste wheels from some other photo of the same car. The car is real, the wheels really belong to that car because it is my car (and only I know), but the photo is fake or PSed.
PS. PSed should not be taken as some negative meaning, it is just a fact of how the photo is made.
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You can see colored jerseys just fine. The flight deck is not pitch black, there is illuminated lighting + moon + star light. If anything, red is easier to distinguish against dimmed red lighting compared to other colors, particularly white only. US navy:
