Steven Krivit wrote:
http://iesiusa.com/images/Image_photogallery.gif
Maybe I'm just a suspicious rat-ba_tard, but I checked this with a New
Energy Times reader / graphics artist and we notice the following things:
-The sign appears to be tilting out from the top - never seen such signs.
-There are shadows on the top surface of the characters as well as on
the lower and right wall surface.
-The vertical shadow to the right of the "i" should not be parallel to
the "i" as it appears, if the sign truly is tilted out.
-The shadows on the lower and right wall surface are soft, as you'd get
on a cloudy day, other shadows are hard.
-The green portion of the "i" is off-axis from the base of the
character. This would be stupid to intentionally do.
Comments V?
You're right. That sign positively screams "FAKE!"
The letters could very well be tilted out, I don't have a problem with
that. But the sign is in the shade, and the entire rest of that face of
the building is in full sun. There is not a cloud in the sky. No way!
The shadow behind the sign is your standard "stick-a-shadow-here-please"
shadow, and it's not even right for the sign: with the sign tilted out
from the building the shadow should be veering off to the right a bit
behind the "i". It's not. But that's an irrelevant minor glitch
compared to the big one -- the sun's at a low angle in a cloudless sky,
the shadow should be sticking straight out to the right of the sign,
with hard edges (as you noted), and the face of the sign should be lit
by the sun. Since the sun is still above the horizontal (as we can see
from other shadows), the top of the tilted-out sign should be lit by the
sun; it actually appears to be in full shade! That sign fails on all
counts.
What's more, the building face on which the sign is placed is _all_
_glass_. Look at the other gray panels in the walls to see this. They
show reflections of everything around them. The ones behind the sign,
however, look dull -- certainly no reflection of the sign is visible
.... most likely because the sign isn't really there.
It's not only a fake, it's a poor one.
If they're legitimate, then they used a "mock-up" picture, taken,
perhaps, before they actually moved into the office space. Nobody's
noticed how bad it looks so they haven't replaced it with a later,
"real" photo. (So, OK, I'm reaching here...)
