How did I take this picture?
(don’t scroll down if you are trying to figure it out. No photoshop or manipulation — I’m shooting with a film Canonette camera from way back!)
22 responses to “How’s That? (19)”
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You and you friends are out at the terrace! and you are taking a photo of the reflection of the buildings on the window!!!!
Come on! Let me guess one, I´ve gone bad lately…!!!
0-)
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Don’t go bad… 😉
You are mostly correct…except for the terrace part. And yes, they are my friends. =)
Look closely at the guy on the right (you might want the full resolution version).
How can we look through his shoulder? How can there be furniture and buildings of different sizes behind him?
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Mmmm…. 0-(
I HAD downloaded the high-res. pic to come to my previous guessing…
You know what? I found that you took that picture coz you are pointing somewhere else and your friend… LOOK his lasers! he seems to be looking to the right, but he doesn´t. You are all faking!
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Is there a mirror reflection and a reflection in a window, or is it one of those windows that is a corner of a room and you are getting double rflection and from the two sides of a building?? The furniture is inside the room??
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From here it looks like you are standing outside, taking a picture of people posing on the inside, and only the parts with a dark enough background are having a good reflecition [mirror effect] otherwise the light coming through is too strong and overpowers the image, as is the case with your friends shoulder. His face is still slightly visible but is very faded, as the bright background dominates.
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I think all three of you are outside or inside an elevator, (based on the direction of the part of your hair and your friend’s buttons on his shirt and the direction of his fly, we’re looking at a reflection of the three of you.) Is this glass we are seeing a divider and some of the buildings are on the other side of the glass and not a reflection? If not a divider, it must be in a glass tube elevator?
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That’s a good point, Vanita, there is no EXIF data on this photo, and the camera Steve was using looks to be a film type camera.
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While I was sleeping, several of you have identified all of the key elements of this photo. It is a single exposure (I would have regarded double exposures as a pre-Photoshop job =) Also, Vanita & Rocketeer: this photo is from Texas, so I was counting on you to identify your friendly city to the North…. 😉
I am standing on the 38th floor (notice the buildings below), and so I’m inside, facing outside. My friends are also facing out, and there are no mirrors. Most amazingly, if I recall correctly, there are no reflective surfaces behind me!
Within a half hour of posting, the Argentinean Alieness identified that this is a reflection off a window. AND, she contributed a fine laser eye analysis.
In the most AMAZING piece of button-fly detective work, Rocketeer figured out that all three of us are being reflected. (He was kind enough to refrain from sartorial commentary =)
RobiM correctly explains how the images overlap based on darkness and intensity of light. I am looking South/SW into the sun.
Philip (a new entrant bringing the UK back into the puzzle picture) identified the key element of a corner window.
And Pandarine comes in with a strong contribution, as always. She is the master of illusions.
So how does this all come together? Like the last puzzle, there are reflective surfaces at angles to the viewer.
It is a zig-zag glass wall nested up in a high rise building in Dallas.
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You can walk into each triangle section. I am standing near one and my friends are inside them to my right (we are all facing the same direction). There are multiple reflections, like a three-mirror booth in a clothing store, but with an array of partially reflective surfaces.
There is also a rich array of building reflections, near and far, because this is a building with a hole in it! You can see the zig-zag at the bottom of the hole in the left photo here.
Here you can see the other buildings in the Dallas skyline, like the one above my head, and the grid overlay on her sweater.
This is one of my favorite photos of all time. It took a brief setup and a single shot with a old beat up Canonette, and gave me a big surprise when the film came back.
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It’s a very smart photo! I’d have to dissagree with you about the double exposure being a photoshopped image, especially with a film camera. To me it’s an experiment that can be either controlled or left to chance. But not an effect done after in photoshop, which makes it more artisan in my opinion. 😀
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I’ve made this assertion before, so bear with me if you’ve heard it, but I feel reflection photos are the contemporary version of the double exposure.
It’s kinda a shame to loose the occasional surprise of getting your pictures back and finding your mother on the head of the Sphinx. ‘-}
Great puzzle sj!
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What was she doing climbing up on the Sphinx??? Talk her down from there.
Your assertion is beguiling… Both are architectures of space, one shifted and one folded.
Reflections seem easier as they can be “found” on the retina, whereas double exposures require a prosthetic extension of the senses and a mental pre-fabrication.
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