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All done with mirrors?
All done with mirrors?
Beetle


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Challenge: Fool the Viewer (Expert Editing)
Camera: Canon EOS-5D Mark II
Lens: Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS
Location: Brisbane, Australia - at Southbank
Date: Sep 13, 2011
Aperture: f/5.0
ISO: 640
Shutter: 1/4
Galleries: Cityscape, Urban
Date Uploaded: Sep 13, 2011

 It is real and probably would have been fine under Advanced Editing rules, as well.

We currently have this funky mirror sphere in Brisbane. Sadly, I believe it is only here for the duration of the Brisbane Festival. Darn shame because it is rather photogenic.

I cloned out my reflection as well as a couple of other people. Then I selected the background (support structure) and darkened it, which made it look at lot more fake in order to make people scratch their heads and not understand what they're looking at exactly. That's the point of this challenge, right?

Here is what the sphere looks like:

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 09/22/2011 08:14:47 PM
Fooled me. Well done! Good idea darkening between the mirrors!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
09/22/2011 07:50:33 PM
Could be mirrors on a wall? But you'd have to be very well hidden. Fake?
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/21/2011 06:54:42 PM
real?
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 09/21/2011 10:23:16 AM
Interesting. To my eye, the mirrors seem to be refracting at different strengths, indicating to me that this is some sort of digital composite. There is, however, reflected light that seems to be cast pretty uniformly over the mirrors and that seems to be coming from whatever pink light source is close by. While looking on the inside of the mirror (at the boundary of what would be glass and plasic), it looks like the image has a harsh transition, i.e. unnatural. Almost as if the reflected images were overlayed and masked. Final verdict: digitally manufactured.

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I'm going to guess that I got this wrong. I'm interested in seeing how it was done...is it just an illusion?
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 09/20/2011 07:05:39 AM
real
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 09/19/2011 03:47:46 PM
I am going to guess photoshopped BECAUSE...with that many mirrors I would think you would see your reflection.

That's my uneducated guess. =)
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/19/2011 12:40:47 PM
Real :-)
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 09/19/2011 07:43:37 AM
Hmmm, tough call. I'm guessing it is mirrors. REAL
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 09/18/2011 04:50:54 PM
interesting... real!
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 09/18/2011 11:39:36 AM
Well, yes, the mirrors on what I presume is a ball?
But you didn't place them there which would make this photograph genuine
  Photographer found comment helpful.
 09/17/2011 08:28:06 PM
I'm thinking YES!
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 09/17/2011 02:28:20 PM
Real, probably. Lenses, not mirrors? Awfully clean lenses. Too clean. Changing my mind, not real. Still well done. I like this.
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 09/17/2011 02:21:37 PM
A very unique image-I'm gonna guess...REAL!
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 09/16/2011 06:14:53 PM
I'm guessing that this is real. Neat.
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 09/16/2011 02:38:28 PM
Real.
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 09/16/2011 11:38:14 AM
Excellent!
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