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 01/02/2007 11:25:48 AM · #26
Cool capture. The face detail is amazing. It does not seam to fit into the surrounding area. What happens when you enlarge the face area? What was in back of you reflecting down into the water? Send a copy to Ghost Hunters for their opinion.
 01/02/2007 11:29:46 AM · #27
Originally posted by Phillydigishooter:
Cool capture. The face detail is amazing. It does not seam to fit into the surrounding area. What happens when you enlarge the face area? What was in back of you reflecting down into the water? Send a copy to Ghost Hunters for their opinion.


Nothing's in back of me reflecting down into the water; the water is reflecting the sky in front of/above me. The whole thing is an artifact of cloud reflection, ripples, and underwater detail. I'm not personally inclined to believe such phenomena are supernatural. As Odyssey says, we are hard-wired to recognize faces.

But I definitely DO enjoy it when these pop up, and I particularly enjoy the ghost theories when they crop up :-)

R.
 01/02/2007 11:37:26 AM · #28
Originally posted by Phillydigishooter:
Cool capture. The face detail is amazing. It does not seam to fit into the surrounding area. What happens when you enlarge the face area? What was in back of you reflecting down into the water? Send a copy to Ghost Hunters for their opinion.


It is very clearly a reflection of the bright bit of cloud at the top of the picture. No need to worry the ghost hunters...
 01/02/2007 11:46:53 AM · #29
It may just be reflections but I prefer the ghost idea, just makes the entire picture feel eerie to me. It is a beautiful shot without the face but the face takes it to a whole new level. Very cool.
 01/02/2007 11:48:44 AM · #30
Very cool! I was also looking at the reflection at the right before I saw the face. I see a Victorian woman complete with upswept hair, high collar, dark bodice and cinched waist. Somewhat like the look in these photos:

//www.cartes.freeuk.com/album/harrf.jpg
//www.siscom.net/~smolla/ebay/framed.jpg

It's so much fun when random elements come together to form a recognizable image. I once went to a cemetery to get "ghost" images. Upon scouring the shots I saw a man in a dark suit, wearing a fedora and looking down as he walked. It gave me a chill until I examined the other photos and identified him as a bush and a headstone that only looked like a man from that exact angle.

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 11:49:01.
 01/02/2007 11:51:01 AM · #31
the guy/gal is either in a tub or a rowboat....maybe someone tied that person up, put her in a boat and left out there, on the open lake to die and in her madness she flipped the boat and drowned....
 01/02/2007 11:51:41 AM · #32
Originally posted by zaflabout:
yeah i can see the face , but when i look on the far right , there is a reflection in the water, it looks ike someone is standing, and i can't related to the trees, but then again i moght need new glasses


That was the first thing I noticed too. Maybe we can get a group discount at the optometrist. That face is defiantly strange but the smile on his face helps dampen the creepy factor.
 01/02/2007 12:13:37 PM · #33
Actually looks like the young Dylan Thomas to me:



R.
 01/02/2007 12:18:02 PM · #34
Not to hijack the ghost face thread, but how do you process a HDRI image with ripples in the water? I would think nothing would line up...
 01/02/2007 12:40:44 PM · #35
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Not to hijack the ghost face thread, but how do you process a HDRI image with ripples in the water? I would think nothing would line up...


It's "quasi-HDRI", DPC-legal. The different exposures are made by changing the exposure of the RAW file and cloning copies, then merging them. I have another version that is true HDRI, and the face is breaking up in that. But actually, ripples work surprisingly well in true HDRI; remember that at any given point of the photo, only one image is being used.

When I get a chance I'll dig out the true-HDRI version and post it here.

R.

Here's the "true HDRI" version of the shot, merged from 5 different exposures:



Message edited by author 2007-01-02 12:45:25.
 01/02/2007 12:57:22 PM · #36
Hmm, that's encouraging to me.
 01/02/2007 01:02:29 PM · #37
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Hmm, that's encouraging to me.


Oh, yeah. Don't worry about it. Bear in mind that when you shoot your 5-7 bracketed exposures with an eye towards "true HDRI", you are also creating a library of potential candidates for "quasi HDRI" if indeed you do have a movement problem that is crippling you. Now, personally, I haven't found the rendition of water to be an issue; where I have problems is with the foliage moving in the wind.

I'm actually experimenting now with using only two exposures to generate the first HDRI, then creating variants of the composite and generating another HDRI off that. results are inconclusive so far. But anyway, if you look at the face shot versions here, you can see that the true HDRI is a MUCH better version. Except for the face, of course :-) And I busted my hump in PP in CS2 to try to get the quasi-HDRI version to look like the true one. The true one was just a merge of 5, a tone map, and a quick polish in CS2.

R.
 01/02/2007 01:07:07 PM · #38
Okay, I'm not much for this type of stuff, but here's a spooky photo to give you folks some pause. Scroll down to bottom of page to see it.

//www.zuko.com/weird_and_spooky_friends.htm

Bear_Music Face or no face, that's an incredible image!

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 13:08:00.
 01/02/2007 01:44:26 PM · #39
Well, I was losing some hope. I tried to do a true HDRI with Photomatrix on a 3-shot sequence of a snow-covered lodge in moderate wind. Photomatrix did a terrible job of lining up the shots and I wound up with garbage. I'm not sure if there is a way to get it to do better. Maybe I'll try again doing it manually instead of their automatic batch generate an image.
 01/02/2007 01:49:59 PM · #40
Nice shot, but you missed the money maker. Hopefully, the Virgin Mary will appear next time rather than some scrub, then you'll have the million dollar photo. ;)

Great work by the way.
 01/02/2007 02:22:45 PM · #41
You guys forced me to do it. Mermaid!

01/02/2007 02:34:37 PM · #42
Wow, looks like someone from the colonial era. Where was it taken? It would be interesting to see if anyone has had any "experiences" in that same area........ photographic or otherwise.

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 01/02/2007 02:36:10 PM · #43
You sure you didn't draw in that monster?

Forgot: ;-)

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 01/02/2007 02:37:13 PM · #44
Water sprite!! :o) Fantastic photo.
 01/02/2007 02:37:43 PM · #45
Originally posted by Drummie:
Wow, looks like someone from the colonial era. Where was it taken? It would be interesting to see if anyone has had any "experiences" in that same area........ photographic or otherwise.


Harwich Port, Cape Cod; as colonial as all get-out, yup. Just about 15 miles from where the Pilgrims first landed, actually.

Robt.
 01/02/2007 02:44:59 PM · #46
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 01/02/2007 02:57:09 PM · #47
thats cool Bear. I love your images and that surprise face adds to it.



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 01/02/2007 04:10:25 PM · #48
Originally posted by Bear_Music:

ETA: Particularly amazing, to me, is that it isn't just a face; it seems to be a full head, with hair, kind of a pompadour hairdo...


That's not a pompador hairdoo. That's an alien just to the childs' right. Seems to be in distress.
 01/02/2007 04:43:23 PM · #49
EDIT:

i wanted to put up a photo of an eye in the clouds, but i can't host it yet..

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 16:46:28.
 01/02/2007 04:59:18 PM · #50
Was it the little face, or the big text that says "COD" or "GOD"?
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