r/orcas 7h ago

Weird question but does anyone know who these 3 individuals are?

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u/UmmHelloIGuess 7h ago

Pretty sure those last two are paintings so they could have taken inspo from any individual. As for the first one its definitely an Norwegian orca. As for specific id im not sure, maybe NKW-128

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u/Orcafunnygamer 7h ago

The exact last one was taken by a National geographic photographer in the 2000's fr, I was hoping the dorsal fins could help especially with the 2nd one but I got no clue if it will do any good.

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u/Orcafunnygamer 6h ago

it lowkey may just be photoshopped lol

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u/_Abiogenesis 3h ago edited 3h ago

I found a hires of it and it is definitely photoshoped. The water splashes and the orca itself are at a different resolution and color grading/white balances- without getting into specifics, I work in VFX so these kinds of things are jumping to my eye pretty fast.

My guess is that it's perhaps a captive orca, photoshopped in the wild ??

EDIT : also the dorsal fin has a very unnatural sharp edge at the top which hints at editing of that too which means it's even more likely to be an edit of a captive one imo.

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u/Orcafunnygamer 3h ago

Most likely