Dan Robinson
EF5
Quite a few of these "close lightning" CGI/fakes making the rounds lately. I've seen this one picked up by legitimate news media, so it deserves to be exposed as a fraud.
Let's take a look at what this one is missing: 1.) real lightning channels have a visible "bead out" at close range. The cooling channel should break up into visible segments. 2.) Real lightning bolts have an orange color close to the point of ground contact. 3.) the microphone on a GoPro or action cam in a housing is incapable of recording the high-fidelity thunder sound clip that has been dubbed in here. 4.) Lightning doesn't produce the cute little "splash" in the water we see here (find ONE other example of this happening).
If you don't believe me, look at every legitimate close lightning video you can find and compare it to this one using these characteristics as a guide..
Lightning videos like these are easy to fake, viewer beware. All it takes is to draw in a lightning bolt in a frame or two and dub in a sound file. Comparing these videos to real lightning bolts captured on camera will make the fakes easy to spot.
Here are some real lightning bolts for comparison (language warning on some of these):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXULNHyNVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJDen5HeMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ovwi9LB-xU
Let's take a look at what this one is missing: 1.) real lightning channels have a visible "bead out" at close range. The cooling channel should break up into visible segments. 2.) Real lightning bolts have an orange color close to the point of ground contact. 3.) the microphone on a GoPro or action cam in a housing is incapable of recording the high-fidelity thunder sound clip that has been dubbed in here. 4.) Lightning doesn't produce the cute little "splash" in the water we see here (find ONE other example of this happening).
If you don't believe me, look at every legitimate close lightning video you can find and compare it to this one using these characteristics as a guide..
Lightning videos like these are easy to fake, viewer beware. All it takes is to draw in a lightning bolt in a frame or two and dub in a sound file. Comparing these videos to real lightning bolts captured on camera will make the fakes easy to spot.
Here are some real lightning bolts for comparison (language warning on some of these):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgXULNHyNVQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usJDen5HeMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ovwi9LB-xU
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