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Andy Walker

This image is the first time I’ve seen the mechanics of a digital camera “see” differently than what’s possible with a film camera. engadget.com/what-did-an-ip…

What did an iPhone camera do to this poor woman's arms?
An iPhone camera appears to have separated a woman into two distinct entities via a mirror. This isn’t a glitch in the Matrix, but rather a common computational photography error.
Andy Walker

One of my fascinations with photography generally is the camera’s ability to show us a reality—with compositing, filtering, and post-processing—that’s not possible to see with the eye. Thinking of Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies and Werner Herzog’s “new images.”

jonathan
Replying to @awalker

But this wasn’t reality because the phone stitched 3 different realities together