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agentm
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 12:44
How did this photographer take this picture without having himself and the camera as part of the reflexion?

http://www.digitalphotocontest.com/photodisplay.asp?photoid=649075



:shock:
timmyquest
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 12:48
Telephoto, or photoshop.

My guess is that he used a telephoto lens.
evilenglishman
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 12:52
remote release with a tripod hidden behind the plants
mttmrphy
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 13:45
magic?
cmM
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 14:43
yea, I think he's hiding :)

It's a cool photo.
RichardtheSane
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 16:12
To me the surface looks more like glass than metal, so he is shooting through a glass ball and the image that appears on the ball is actually on the other side of it :)
mjordan
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 18:56
It was shot with a Sony Cybershot, so I don't think a telephoto was used. I thought that it might have been done with a timer, or the camera is really up above and it's cropped out of the picture.

Or it could have been photoshoped out.

Neat picture.

Mike
PacAce
5th of August 2004 (Thu), 19:56
An analysis of the image shows that this is most probably a composite image, a background image and the "crystal ball" image. The background image is of a higher resolution than the crystal ball.

Since this is most probably a composite, I think it's also safe to assume that the ball is not a metal ball but a glass ball and the image you see is on the other side of the ball, hence the reason the camera and the photographer are not in the picture. Since images viewed through the ball would be upside and inverted down, the image would also have had to be re-inverted to show a normally upright image.
xrunner123
6th of August 2004 (Fri), 10:09
It's a composite. Zoom in on the upper left corner near the edge of the sphere. You'll see where he goofed. And the ball shot was prob done with a mirror.
cmM
6th of August 2004 (Fri), 10:34
Okay... just to be sure, I e-mail the person, asking how the photo was done. If she answers, I'll post it up here.

:D
ron chappel
7th of August 2004 (Sat), 20:17
Well-it IS in a digital image competition

Manipulation will be a given :P
ArtierSquare
7th of August 2004 (Sat), 21:10
The goof is there...

Xrunner123 is right. Basics... The details from the base of the globe are also missing! :wink:
xdjoynerx
7th of August 2004 (Sat), 21:29
the image on the ball looks super imposed to me. photoshop.