[HN Gopher] Two photographers captured the same millisecond in t...
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Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)
Author : ghastmaster
Score : 232 points
Date : 2023-09-24 19:01 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| mrb wrote:
| I cropped the pictures, and rotated Ron's picture by 0.2deg (it
| wasn't perfectly vertical), so as to line them up on the
| lighthouse's door:
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| https://i.imgur.com/ISIGQrR.png
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| https://i.imgur.com/qLtZprZ.jpeg
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| 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 :-)
| pimlottc wrote:
| Works well with cross-eyed viewing too, with the images side-
| by-side:
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| - Left: https://i.imgur.com/qLtZprZ.jpeg
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| - Right: https://i.imgur.com/ISIGQrR.png
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| drewtato wrote:
| Reading the title, I thought it would be this photo, which memed
| around Japan internet recently: https://cloudfront-us-
| east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuter...
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| These two exposures surely overlapped, with the known photo
| probably exposing for tens of milliseconds on either side of the
| flash, but the lighthouse exposures might not have overlapped at
| all, yet captured a far more exact slice of time regardless.
| dogman1050 wrote:
| This is great! When I look at each picture with one eye
| simultaneously, I see the image in 3d.
| alex_duf wrote:
| You can also cross your eyes such that each image overlaps each
| other to get a persistent 3D representation
| tetris11 wrote:
| 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?)
| smeej wrote:
| Try moving closer to or farther from the screen.
|
| My eyes did this too up close, but could focus once I
| backed up.
| jpc0 wrote:
| i just want to say thanks for pointing this out.
|
| New found possible love, stereoscopic photography. Honestly
| the stereoscopic effect is absolutely beautiful, even more so
| that each individual photo
| mrob wrote:
| The depth is inverted if you look at them cross-eyed. If you
| swap the positions of the two pictures it will look correct.
| stouset wrote:
| Same! It's truly amazing that our brains are capable of
| instantaneously synthesizing those minute differences into
| three-dimensional information.
| LVB wrote:
| Indeed... I had to practice my old stereogram eye control, but
| it worked!
| Phemist wrote:
| And the author's name, for me, read as Eron Grisman
| danw1979 wrote:
| 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 !
| mherdeg wrote:
| (I realize that there are a few details that you can use to tell
| these apart, but,) Who gets to register the copyright on the
| image?
| howenterprisey wrote:
| I'd imagine there are two images so there are two copyrights.
| jordanreger wrote:
| 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.
| pan69 wrote:
| One that I sometimes think about is; how often you end up in
| other peoples photos? I wish there was an option in e.g. Google
| Photos where you could share (anonymously?) your photos with
| people you just happen captured by accident.
| gcau wrote:
| When you go to an event, you can search "{event.name} {date}"
| on twitter/youtube and potentially spot yourself. I do that a
| lot.
| jvm___ wrote:
| We participate in a glo-riders bike ride, so 150-200
| bikes/scooters all with various levels of led lights from a
| strip on your helmet to 500+ synced to a speaker. A bunch of
| people have Bluetooth speakers playing the playlist of the
| ride.
|
| It's not super well known, so random pedistrians or people at
| outdoor tables star and record the parade on their phones, so
| there's multiple videos of us all around town.
| dave8088 wrote:
| A couple was captured in the same photo at Disney years before
| they met:
| https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2010/06/couple-knows-...
| bombcar wrote:
| Too bad the link to the original is now dead.
| rootusrootus wrote:
| There are copies out on the 'net in various places when it
| was covered originally. E.g.
| https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-and-donna-
| voutsinas_n_29...
| great_psy wrote:
| 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.
| dehrmann wrote:
| This is ultimately a study in bias and how we choose to take
| pictures of the same things.
| skupig wrote:
| 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.
| dehrmann wrote:
| It also tells us sometimes we fail to see the beauty around
| us.
| thenewwazoo wrote:
| Or maybe it says that we all see the beauty around us,
| but we don't notice everyone else seeing it, too. (More
| than one person stopped, but only two people knew that.)
| throw310822 wrote:
| Why only two? In fact, several of those who stopped to
| take the picture were also informed by a neighbour (each
| time a different one) that others had taken the same
| picture before.
| jhncls wrote:
| See also this previous discussion:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16542395
| iramiller wrote:
| Stories like this remind me that in distributed systems time
| becomes a very imprecise concept at small scales.
| nixpulvis wrote:
| [flagged]
| clnq wrote:
| What?
| ipython wrote:
| 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?
| bean-weevil wrote:
| I'm surprised that the exif data was accurate to the millisecond.
| Quartz clocks won't typically maintain that precision over the
| course of a single day.
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| xhrpost wrote:
| If the camera is pulling location from GPS then it's likely
| pulling time from it as well.
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