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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 Arainach »

sneak wrote: post #110
Arainach wrote: post #63

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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 expe…

These photos are independent works of art. They take skill to select the angle, to set up your equipment, and to be ready in the moment. They are absolutely art.

A lot of wedding photos look a lot like other wedding photos. That doesn't make them not art or not worthwhile.

Someone trying to exactly recreate a shot may not be art (trying to find exactly where Ansel was, etc.) but can still be a solid technical exercise in developing skills.

This is not that - it's two people creating something new and independently who happened to have similar results.

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

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Post by clnq »

ipython wrote: post #35
clnq wrote: post #28

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What?

Think of it this way: you run a website that displays photos in chronological order. You receive these two photos. Which picture was taken first? How can you tell?

Got it. Can’t know what time it is exactly if you have 2 clocks.

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

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Post by dalmo3 »

pimlottc wrote: post #38
mrb wrote: post #34

I cropped the pictures, and rotated Ron's picture by 0.2° (it wasn't perfectly vertical), so as to line them up on the lighthouse's door: https://i.imgur.com/ISIGQrR.png https://i.imgur.com/qLtZprZ.jpeg Open both in 2 tabs on a computer, and quickly alternate between the 2 tabs, the 3D effect is quite visible because of the perspective differential :-)

Works well with cross-eyed viewing too, with the images side-by-side: https://jsfiddle.net/pimlottc/f1saz46m/1/show

Woah, thanks for this. I've always known about cross eyed 3d it but was never able to make it work... Until I tried that image for a minute or two and then bam, something clicks and my eyes lock in!? And now I have to make an effort to unfocus the merged image. What kind of sorcery is this?

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

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Post by vlasev »

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.

You can do this with text too (like in spreadsheets, code, etc) to find differences visually.
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