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The same picture of spilled water, one right side up, the other upside down.
The funny thing is that the "carved" effect only appears when the two images are shown side-by-side.
The funny thing is that the "carved" effect only appears when the two images are shown side-by-side.
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I think it is rotated 180, not just flipped vertically.
This rotation, combined with the assumption of the same direction of illumination for both produces an altered impression of its relief.
Covering one half or the other should make that effect go away, but that didn't work for me. Maybe the established impression of the direction of illumination sticks around a while.
Switching which is on the left might be interesting.
This rotation, combined with the assumption of the same direction of illumination for both produces an altered impression of its relief.
Covering one half or the other should make that effect go away, but that didn't work for me. Maybe the established impression of the direction of illumination sticks around a while.
Switching which is on the left might be interesting.
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The rotated 180 is the same as flipped BOTH horizontally and vertically
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To me, both the flipped vertical and rotated 180 look the same, engraved not raised in relief.
However, if I hold my laptop rotated 90˚ counter-clockwise then the rotated 180 and the flippped horizontal look raised.
If I rotate 90˚ clockwise, the normal and flipped vertical look raised.
It I look at it in normal orientation and look at it as I rotate it the impression of the different pictures takes a while to change. It takes a visual scan or two over the group of pictures for me to see them differently.
However, if I hold my laptop rotated 90˚ counter-clockwise then the rotated 180 and the flippped horizontal look raised.
If I rotate 90˚ clockwise, the normal and flipped vertical look raised.
It I look at it in normal orientation and look at it as I rotate it the impression of the different pictures takes a while to change. It takes a visual scan or two over the group of pictures for me to see them differently.
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The right image is the left image rotated 180° only. (Look at the darker bottom-right corner becoming the top-left corner to convince yourself.)berkeman said:
I saved the image on my computer from Facebook thinking both shots were on that image. When I uploaded it here, I noticed there was only the right-side image so I had to rotate it myself to recreate the right-side image. So I can assure you this is the same image only rotated 180°.
When I rotated the image by itself, this is when I noticed that I couldn't see the illusion and I was kind of deceived: Maybe the original I saw was a trick shot? But when I put it side-by-side with the original on the post, it appeared immediately. And when I went back to look at the rotated image by itself on my computer, the illusion was still there!BillTre said:
With a brain like that, who needs drugs, right?
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Love these photos…..amazing & artistic….morrobay said:
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Well Thanks Girl
And you think you had a rough day at work... 
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When it’s -30°F with wind chill factored in, and you have to clear the driveway because the HOA-contracted snow removal folks do a terrible job…
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BRRRRR ... close that door, dammit !Flyboy said:
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There’s actually a glass outer door there that’s keeping the worst of it out.phinds said:
It’s also why we didn’t dig out until Sunday… there was a meter tall snow drift against it that I couldn’t push the outer door through. There’s a garage door, but we were hesitant to open that too because we couldn’t tell how much weight was on it and didn’t want to risk damaging it.
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A few days later.
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Rear ended his car!
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nsaspook said:
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One of my neighbors (in Eugene) has a metal roof. Ice started melting under it and it slide off and took her gutter with it.nsaspook said:
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The temperature dropped to 18F (-8C) in Greenville SC last night. This was the result the following afternoon. It doesn't often get this cold here.
The NC mountains had snow, but none down here.
The NC mountains had snow, but none down here.
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Having clear skies for 28 nights in a row is the really impressive part.fresh_42 said:
The caption can't be right though, in that it's not possible to take that picture at the "same time" each day, even if it is the same location and camera orientation/setup. A photo of a thin crescent can be taken at some particular time of day, but wait 2 weeks for a full moon, and it will be in roughly the opposite side of the sky (roughly 180 deg difference) at that particular time of day. And you can tell by the foreground that the image is not a >180 deg panorama.
In most latitudes, photos of waxing crescents must be taken in the evening and waning crescents in the morning, because any other time the moon is below the horizon. There is an exception to this in extreme arctic/antarctic regions where in the summertime, the sun just goes around near the horizon in a circle all day and night. So I assume this photo might have been taken from a location with an extreme latitude. But still, the roughly "opposite side of the sky" problem would remain in order for the "same time" claim to be true.
Something doesn't add up with this photo and its caption (it might just be a problem with the caption).
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Another pic from our visit to Greenville on Sunday.
Note the last item on the menu. Main Street usually sees a lot of dogs promenading with their owners on weekends. Last weekend, not as many because of the cold temperatures.
Note the last item on the menu. Main Street usually sees a lot of dogs promenading with their owners on weekends. Last weekend, not as many because of the cold temperatures.
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And I agree with @collinsmark.collinsmark said:It's absolutely fine to process your photos.It's not cheating, it's doing your due diligence.
(and so does the AI bot I used to create all those images you thought were photos taken by me
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Rive said:Yep, flash. Thanks.
A lucky one:
An 'usual' one:
What flash does is, that the background is lighter, overexposed. The cat is the same - black
Yes, the first one is pretty good. And personally I don't think the background is too bright there, but that's me.
Regarding the second one, judging from the picture I think that the ambient light was not bright enough.
So there I would try using more supporting lights if possible (e.g. lights in the house, spotlights, flashlights etc).
The best, I think, would be to photograph the cat outside in broad daylight, but maybe it's an indoor only cat, I don't know?
If it's an indoor only cat, you could try photographing the cat when it is close to a window (e.g. on a window sill) on a sunny day (or maybe even put the cat there).
What I would be striving for with this is to try to maximise the dynamic range of the shot.
By the way, what kind of and which camera were you using?
Regardless of this, my advice would also be to shoot in RAW and then develop/edit the photos in some photo editing software.
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