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#92 What's Wrong with This Photo?

billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
edited December 21, 2011 in The Dgrin Challenges
Okay - Here's my attempt. It's a cool illusion, but you can't really see it unless you flip the image 180 degrees. Feel free to download it and give it a try. I'm trying to figure out how to make the "flipping it over" part work during the viewing/voting. Any ideas?

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    SeascapeSSeascapeS Registered Users Posts: 814 Major grins
    edited December 17, 2011
    Yeah, do a side-by-side.
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    JennJenn Registered Users Posts: 1,009 Major grins
    edited December 17, 2011
    billseye wrote: »
    Okay - Here's my attempt. It's a cool illusion, but you can't really see it unless you flip the image 180 degrees. Feel free to download it and give it a try. I'm trying to figure out how to make the "flipping it over" part work during the viewing/voting. Any ideas?


    No need to flip it... If you stare at it really hard for at least a minute or two you can see something is different. :D
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    billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2011
    Here are two different versions showing the comparison. Both show second version of the main image that is an exact mirror rotated on the horizontal axis.

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    3.
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    TonyCooperTonyCooper Registered Users Posts: 2,276 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2011
    I can't figure out what I'm supposed to see, but - that's OK - I like the original image for what it is.
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    billseyebillseye Registered Users Posts: 847 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2011
    TonyCooper wrote: »
    I can't figure out what I'm supposed to see, but - that's OK - I like the original image for what it is.

    The two (or four) head shots in each photo are actually all the same image. One exposure. The background is a second exposure layered in post processing.

    The illusion is the way your brain processes the picture on the right of the pair. The right side is actually the left figure rotated 180 degrees (BUT.. the the eye and lips have been left in their original orientation). You don't notice the weird eyes and lips until you turn the whole pair over (which is what I've done in the two new images).
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    DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited December 18, 2011
    Good one! I caught on to the lips before the eyes. thumb.gif

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    jawsnapjawsnap Registered Users Posts: 7 Beginner grinner
    edited December 21, 2011
    Nice job with this. I've always liked this illusion - sometimes it can get really freaky.
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