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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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Post by behringer »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #96
behringer wrote: post #67

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You'll love it. There's dozens of us. Reach out if you want to learn a bit more!

I sure do- I have tried the stereoscopic effect before but it seems impossible to do. I keep seeing both images rather than a single synthezised 3D image.

You can use a device to display the image. Things you can use include a Vr headset, a 3ds, or some rig with a lens https://www.andybaird.com/travels/skylarking/3d/viewer.htm

Probably the dead simplest thing to do is find a thrift store vr headset designed to go over a phone and get a 3d image viewer app.

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

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Post by tinix »

tobr wrote: post #88
Agentlien wrote: post #62

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I wonder how widespread this understanding is. I figured it out a few years ago, but haven't heard anyone else mention it. It's a really cool hack.

I’ve used this technique since I was a kid, and have always been fascinated with how my eyes perceive both a 3d image and simultaneously two separate images overlaid. It’s something I think about many times per day - I mean, I’m looking at stuff all day, and this is such a fundamental aspect of the experience of looking at something. But my impression is that most people are only barely aware of how this works?

Observing the observation.

Something zen about it...

Don't think but it just is.

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

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Post by DriverDaily »

dehrmann wrote: post #13
great_psy wrote: post #3

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.

Bias as in training? Photographers are trained to pick the most interesting subjects, perspectives, and moments.

Waves like this have a clear peak when they stop rising, but before they fall, so there is a natural moment to click the shutter.

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

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Post by max47 »

olalonde wrote: post #86
tantalor wrote: post #53

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What do you mean by "scene"? Like, the state of the world at the time of the photograph? Why would anyone think that was "subject to copyright"?

> Why would anyone think that was "subject to copyright"? Because it is subject to copyright in some countries. In France, for example, photographs of certain buildings cannot be published without the permission of the rights owner.

But it’s the building owner who would have the copyright, not whoever was the first person to have it somewhere in the background of a picture

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

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Post by ghastmaster »

interestica wrote: post #58
dogman1050 wrote: post #9

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

Pro tip: this is also how you can quickly solve those "whats different between these images" puzzles.

I have only told two people this trick. You have now told considerably more. I am truly hurt.

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

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Post by throwaway290 »

max47 wrote: post #104
olalonde wrote: post #86

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> Why would anyone think that was "subject to copyright"? Because it is subject to copyright in some countries. In France, for example, photographs of certain buildings cannot be published without the permission of the rights owner.

But it’s the building owner who would have the copyright, not whoever was the first person to have it somewhere in the background of a picture

The question was whether a scene can be subject to copyright and I answered that question. Whoever downvoted it probably doesn't get basic aspects of photography

If I am the photographer and I set up decorations, lights etc. then the scene itself is my creative work. The other guy will have trouble claiming any copyright over his photo of the same scene because it is based on my creative work.

Not in this case because the scene is naturally occurring. So we can move on to other things that make the final photo like sensor capture and processing

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

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Post by smeej »

jdthedisciple wrote: post #95
smeej wrote: post #30

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Try moving closer to or farther from the screen. My eyes did this too up close, but could focus once I backed up.

How far back?

Mine gets better at arm's length on my phone, but my visual focal distances are funky because I have 3 dipoters of difference between my corrective lenses. All I can suggest is "try moving back and forth and see what works."

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

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Post by kouru225 »

great_psy wrote: post #3

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.

Ngl I actually see this as a condemnation of photography. It means that peoples notions of what’s beautiful is kinda stale and static.

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

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Post by sneak »

Arainach wrote: post #63
sneak wrote: post #61

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I think rather than "a similar metric for beauty" that the art of taking photos for retouching and posting on the internet for strangers is such a generally stale and predictable form. I'm a visual artist and I'm so over the standard "internet photographer" look. Who takes pictures of lighthouses? It's so boring. It's always people in the same demographic doing it, too. Give me some variety. Formulaic art is uninspir…

Claiming that only unique or original things are good is toxic to growth and the development of culture. Saying "who takes pictures of lighthouses" is like saying "who writes their own [editor/operating system/firewall/whatever], there are already dozens of great ones". People get better by doing, and if they never did anything that had already been done they'd never be any good at all. Besides, Lighthouses are cool…

It's the same demographic that builds an abandonware single user text editor as a hobby that takes the 400th identical photo of a new england lighthouse.

As a middle aged white guy myself (who codes and makes visual art) I am constantly reminding myself of the context in which my creations exist and reminding myself to actually be creative when doing so.

The millionth photo of something out of the Uffizi with an expensive camera and lens are not things I tend to publish. They're vacation photos, not art.

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