A U.K. woman was photographed standing in a mirror where her reflections didn’t match, but not because of a glitch in the Matrix. Instead, it’s a simple iPhone computational photography mistake.

  • hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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    10 months ago

    A photo is a fake reality. It’s a capture of the world from the perspective of a camera that no person has ever seen.

    Sure we can approximate with viewfinders and colour match as much as possible but it’s not reality. Take a photo of a light bulb, versus look at a light bulb, as one obvious example.

    This is just one other way to get less consistency in the time of different parts of the photos, but overall better capture what we want to see in a photo.

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      10 months ago

      However I think most cameras and most people traditionally have wanted the most accurate photos possible. If the camera is outputting fiction that can be a big problem.

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        10 months ago

        Oh, dear. No, in most cases people seem to want the prettiest photos possible. Otherwise digital filters wouldn’t be so popular.