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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
As someone who has worked for a few years in a photo lab, I'm leaning towards the opinions of the Photoshop camp. Check out these inconsistencies: the variance in light quality between the woman (soft) and the birds (bright) in the second photo and the inconsistent shadow under the tail of the bird in the foreground of the first and last photo. Also, it looks like a bad edit job on the top edge of the woman's hand in the first photo, where the bird in the back is flying... that "shadow" looks more like a bruise.
Ultimately, the lighting quality is what threw me off at first.
But cools photos, fake or not.
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It's outside and if the camera is focused on the birds, the woman would be just slightly off, depending on the aperature. I don't think that's a shadow in the first picture, I think it's the indentation of her knuckle and could very well be a bruise, but it's definitely not a shadow or even a try at one(a try at one would be more pronounced).
The shadows of the tails are fine; the one is blended into the folds of her hand, so it's not going to look like the other.
Photoshopping the delicateness of the beating wings into a pic, retaining the original comp of the background while keeping the outlines of such translucency unapparent would not be impossible, but it would be very obvious and not worth doing. Finally, the size of the birds and the perspective is correct and consistent. Seperately, these things might not make a difference, but together, I'd have to say the pics are genuine.
We only sometimes get hummingbirds here near the end of summer. My abelia bushes attrack them and a lot of butterflies. Unfortunately, I didn't see any hummingbirds this year. They're so cool to watch.