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Image:The sun, street light and Parallax.jpg[edit]
- InfoI've noticed that the reflection of the sun is seen at the reflection of the street light while the sun itself is much higher than the street light is. I've asked atmospheric optics expert Andy Young to explain my image. Here's what he says:
"the answer is Parallax . The reflection in the water shows the view as seen from a point that is the camera's reflection in the water -- i.e., as far below the surface as the camera is above it.
The street light is much closer than the Sun; so parallax mainly affects the position of the light's reflected image.
These perspective effects are *always* present in pictures of reflections in water -- but not often as obvious as in your picture, which is a "textbook example" of the effect."
- Info created, uploaded and nominated by Mbz1 15:58, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Amazing, truly. Huge wow factor. Preplanned or just a lucky shot? Freedom to share 16:48, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Thank you for your question, Freedom to share. I took this image because I noticed the effect. At first I just was taking images of the fog, the sun and the reflection . Then I decided that it would have been nice to "put" the Sun at the street light, so I started to move around, but as you know I was not able to find the position, from which the sun at the sky and the sun in the water was seen atop the stree light. It was either one of two ;)--Mbz1 17:01, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden 18:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Support Good stuff, wow and valuable. -- Slaunger 21:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)Did not notice the edit, which I prefer.
I was asked why I did not support my oroginal nomination. The answer is because I was waiting for Richard to upload his edit ;)
Image:The sun, street light and Parallax edit.jpg, featured[edit]
- Info Some slight make up by --Richard Bartz 18:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- InfoI've noticed that the reflection of the sun is seen at the reflection of the street light while the sun itself is much higher than the street light is. I've asked atmospheric optics expert Andy Young to explain my image. Here's what he says:
"the answer is Parallax . The reflection in the water shows the view as seen from a point that is the camera's reflection in the water -- i.e., as far below the surface as the camera is above it.
The street light is much closer than the Sun; so parallax mainly affects the position of the light's reflected image.
These perspective effects are *always* present in pictures of reflections in water -- but not often as obvious as in your picture, which is a "textbook example" of the effect." --Mbz1 02:33, 1 March 2008 (UTC) - Support --Richard Bartz 18:29, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Adam Cuerden 18:50, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Durova 19:37, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support -- MJJR 19:38, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Edit improves on original and fixes small issues. --Freedom to share 21:27, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support Better. Richard, could you specify what you have done and reference the original image in the image page? -- Slaunger 21:54, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support--Mbz1 23:45, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
- Support OOooo... artsy! --Calibas 00:57, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - Maybe so, but I don't think it is special enough. Sorry not to join the bandwagon -- Alvesgaspar 01:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support - Clean and crisp. Mønobi 16:58, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support Very nice illustration of the effect. And as mentioned the old edit should have a link to the new edit (and vice verca) otherwise people might find the other version and start using it instead. I see it quite often here at FP that alternate edits are not linked together in any way and that the edits made are not described. /Daniel78 11:07, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
- I linked the original and edit versions. Thank you.--Mbz1 01:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support Illustrates the point well and looks nice - a good combination --WikiWookie 09:15, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support Especially the composition. It would be nice to have more artistic shots here. --MichaelMaggs 18:02, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support Good! --Karelj 20:04, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support Alex Pereiradisc 14:48, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- Support manuel22 —the preceding unsigned comment was added by manuel22 (talk • contribs) Vote fixed --MichaelMaggs 07:03, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
- Oppose - A very good illustration of the parallax effect, however the mist just destroys the image and makes it quite difficult for me to look at. —the preceding unsigned comment was added by Cpl Syx (talk • contribs)
- Support Agree with the wow. Digitaldreamer 01:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
result: 16 support, 2 oppose, 0 neutral => featured. Mywood 11:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)