Photography and the vortex

[Reno]

I thought of another way to have the same effect without one of the people being closer to the camera. I think this would work:

the subject on the left leans slightly back wards, and the subject on the right leans forwards at the same angle. Take the pic. repeat pic, but this time the rightmost subject leans back and the left subject leans forward. Then crop the pics at an angle to make the background look level .

Somethin like that anyway.

 

[CardZeus]

A similar trick was used in Lord of the Rings where Frodo and Gandalf are together in the horse drawn cart (very beginning of movie 1). Frodo is actually sitting a few feet back from Gandalf and hence looks much smaller.

 

[ponderingturtle]

If I recall correctly the only photograph that cannot be manipulated after the shot has been taken is a Polaroid Instamatic. You can still set up a shot to show just about anything but once the button's pushed, that's it.



Boo

And that is why police use polaroids and they will never be replaced by digital cameras.

But you can still do some things with them I would think just not as many

 

[ponderingturtle]

A similar trick was used in Lord of the Rings where Frodo and Gandalf are together in the horse drawn cart (very beginning of movie 1). Frodo is actually sitting a few feet back from Gandalf and hence looks much smaller.

It is called forced perspetive in movies and if you want to see it done really well and often look at darby O'gill and the little people.

 

[Meffy]

A minor quibble. The name "Instamatic" belongs to Kodak, not Polaroid. It referred to their cartridge-loading cameras, which were easier to use than film cameras that required threading the film end through the take-up roller when loading.

For more forced perspective see 2001: A Space Odyssey. The lunar scenes used forced perspective to make big hunks of lunar surface that fit on a (biggish but smaller than Moon-sized) tabletop.

 

[T'ai Chi]

Has anybody actually been at the vortex and can explain how the photographing site is set up?

Yes I've been there, no I can't explain it.

As far as I have gathered, people come to the vortex to be impressed by the illusion that is actually visible to the naked eye.

From what I know most people going there are college kids, looking for some fun.

 

[steenkh]

Yes I've been there, no I can't explain it.

I meant if it was obvious to people who are there to see how the illusion is done: If it only works from a single viewing angle, if the location of the people to be photographed is carefully choreographed, and so on.

From what I know most people going there are college kids, looking for some fun.

Exactly!

 

[patchbunny]

And that is why police use polaroids and they will never be replaced by digital cameras.

But you can still do some things with them I would think just not as many

Actually, they are using digital cameras. I've a friend that's a Crime Scene technician with a Sheriff's department, and he's been using digital for a while now.

 

[soulhill]

Digital photography and the host of editing tools that so many have access to have made image forgery much easier, but the ability has always been there, even with negatives.

In fact, right now a RAW digital photograph (in the RAW format, vs. digital) is difficult to fake because few, if any, tools exist to manipulate the RAW data. But I am sure it can be done, just as a negative can be forged with enough work.