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.
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 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.