Anyone see anything eerie in this shot?

01/02/2007 03:46:45 AM · #1

I was processing this one yesterday and noticed something very strange :-) Can you find it? Image is HDR from a single exposure, and tone mapped, so whatever's in there was "real" and is not an artifact of multi-image merging.

Robt.

Mal37

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/02/2007 03:50:14 AM · #2

Ok, that's kinda creepy. Right before bed time too! Are you gonna go back and check it out?

SaraR

Sony Alpha a7R III

Sony FE 24-70mm f/2.8 GM

01/02/2007 03:50:23 AM · #3

Weird stuff - took me all of about 15 seconds to spot him! I shan't point out exactly where the ghostly apparition is so as not to spoil everyone's fun.

Mambe

Canon EOS-1000D Rebel XS

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/02/2007 03:52:45 AM · #4

A face !

sherpet

Canon EOS-350D Rebel XT

Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

01/02/2007 03:57:41 AM · #5

It's a child face, (a boy face) and so clear.....

I think you have something very special here Robert, and I hope you feel the same way so as to keep that wonderful expressiom there forever.

nixter

Fujifilm X-Pro 1

Fujifilm XF 18mm f/2 Lens X-Pro1

01/02/2007 03:57:50 AM · #6

Is he visible in the original unprocessed image?
I reckon you need to go there again and take some more shots to see if it happens again. : )

Canon EOS-5D Mark IV

Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS

01/02/2007 04:18:02 AM · #7

nice capture, you should sell it on ebay to an online-casino, LOL

ericwoo

Nikon Z7II

Nikon NIKKOR Z 24-120 f/4 S

01/02/2007 04:18:33 AM · #8

That's pretty wild. Is it as clear full-sized as well?

xXxscarletxXx

Nikon D80

Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5- 5.6G ED DX

01/02/2007 04:22:05 AM · #9

Holy shiiit look at that!! lol

Makka

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

01/02/2007 04:26:04 AM · #10

Somebody drowning in the river...and you failed to save them....just took a photo! :)

Wow, that's freaky! Damn nice photo too Rob!

silverscreen

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/02/2007 04:35:41 AM · #11

That's pretty cool - and a little scary as well...

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

01/02/2007 04:59:48 AM · #12

He's there in the original. Look:

I shot this scene with 5 separate exposures, so I could do HDRI on it. None of the other exposures show the face. The "finished" image I posted first is a quasi-HDR made from RAW variations of the same exposure, just to preserve the face. In the true-HDRI version made from the 5 separate exposures, the face is disintegrating but still somewhat visible.

It seems to be an artifact of the ripples and the light refraction. Or perhaps someone drowned there once? I donno. Eerie :-)

R.

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...

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 05:01:37.

zaflabout

Nikon D300

01/02/2007 05:01:38 AM · #13

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

Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 Di II LD Aspherical (IF) for Nikon

01/02/2007 05:03:05 AM · #14

Originally posted by zaflabout:

I don't see that. Where, exactly? Stranger and stranger.

R.

zaflabout

Nikon D300

01/02/2007 05:04:36 AM · #15

look at the far right and then the "supposedly reflection of the trees in the water" it just does not match up with the actual trees, when you said something eerie at the begining i thought you were refering to this
there

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 05:09:58.

Ozzie

Nikon D90

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 24-120mm f/4G ED VR

01/02/2007 05:39:56 AM · #16

Spooky, you need to ask Sylvia Browne or someone like that. :-)

I couldn't see it until someone mentioned 'the boy' and sure enough...

aliqui

Nikon D300s

Nikon AF-S Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II

01/02/2007 05:49:04 AM · #17

Ya'll are nuts. That's not a boy. It's a mermaid. She has bewbs! I said it, bewbs.

Matthew

Peleng 8mm f/3.5 Fisheye MC In M42 Mount

01/02/2007 05:55:55 AM · #18

There is a corresponding light patch of the cloud, above and slightly to the left of the image in the water - maybe an angel! (although without the interaction with the gravel, the idea of a face is lost)

Art Roflmao

Canon EOS-6D Mark II

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

01/02/2007 06:07:04 AM · #19

I saw the face right away before reading what others saw. Although I see it as a ladies face and she is lying in a bathtub with her head hanging over the foot end of the tub and her leg sticking up a little at the other end...

Interesting.

Message edited by author 2007-01-02 06:09:46.

01/02/2007 06:11:08 AM · #20

Originally posted by Art Roflmao:

Hahaha! You'll do ANYTHING to force a skiff into my shots. That's a skiff, not a bathtub, doofus!

R.

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