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Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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In a way this says something about human brains. Presumably both people took many pictures of many waves that day, but somehow both of them decided that this is the one that is the best from that trip. As humans we share a similar metric for beauty. I find this idea simultaneously obviously and amazing.

This is ultimately a study in bias and how we choose to take pictures of the same things.

Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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This is great! When I look at each picture with one eye simultaneously, I see the image in 3d.

The depth and detail that you experience when viewing these images stereoscopically is incredible… and then to consider that the shutters were not synchronised, that this was a complete fluke is just wild.

Thank you for pointing this out !

Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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This is great! When I look at each picture with one eye simultaneously, I see the image in 3d.

You can also cross your eyes such that each image overlaps each other to get a persistent 3D representation

The depth is inverted if you look at them cross-eyed. If you swap the positions of the two pictures it will look correct.

Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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This is a fascinating article that covers something I've thought about plenty of times! Genuinely how often do people take virtually the same photo at the same time? You'd think it'd be more often at places like Disney World but it's fascinating to hear it happened in a scenario like this.

A couple was captured in the same photo at Disney years before they met: https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/06/couple-knows-...

Too bad the link to the original is now dead.

Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

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This is great! When I look at each picture with one eye simultaneously, I see the image in 3d.

You can also cross your eyes such that each image overlaps each other to get a persistent 3D representation

I could hold of for a few seconds, but my eyes kept rejecting the image. It's like they somehow knew that they were more than the usual spacing apart (if that matters, for stereoscopic images?)

Re: Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)

#20

In a way this says something about human brains. Presumably both people took many pictures of many waves that day, but somehow both of them decided that this is the one that is the best from that trip. As humans we share a similar metric for beauty. I find this idea simultaneously obviously and amazing.

This is ultimately a study in bias and how we choose to take pictures of the same things.

I once stopped my car (in the middle of the city) to take a photo of an old, bright red truck over the crest of a steep hill. The woman who lived in the house I parked in front of asked if it was a class assignment, because several people had apparently stopped that afternoon to do the same. I thought that more beautiful than the photo itself.
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