In these times, any photo that seems strange, implausible or supernatural, we are already used to rejecting it in Photoshop, our intuition is usually correct in 90% of cases, but today I bring you 9 photographs that presume not to have gone through Photoshop. People living inside a pool, lighted cars, a starry sky in broad daylight and levitating people.
Get ready to learn the trick behind these 9 photos as real as you and me.
- What you see is not a Photoshop effect.
- Nor is it an optical illusion.
- It is true.
- But the protagonists don’t drown.
- Calm down.
- What you see is actually a work of art on display at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa.
- Japan.
- Is a pool that’s empty at the bottom.
- With a top layer.
- Water contained between fine crystals.
- This gives the feeling that the water fills the entire pool hole when it is not.
The best response to moments of boredom and lack of creativity when we go out on a photographic journey: hold the camera tightly and make several self-portraits as we turn in a fixed place. The movement will blur the background and add a “panoramic” effect to your portrait, keeping you at the center of the focus.
The photo has a double merit. The first is that it did not go through Photoshop, the second is that it was taken with a mobile phone, the Huawei brand entrusted this work to photographer Von Wong, to demonstrate the capabilities of the Huawei P8 phone in terms of shutter speed. Difficult example of long exposure photography, especially when taken with a mobile phone.
An excellent example of long exposure photography. We have already discussed in several articles this technique with which you get wonderful light effects with any type of moving object, be it car lights, attractions at a fair or stars at night (here is one article, and here is another). there’s something else in this photo How can it be at night and the scenery is so bright that it seems daylight?Very easy, the photograph was taken on a full moon night, this, combined with the long exposure, allowed every field to be seen very clearly as if it were the day.
Another way to surprise with a photo without going through the Photoshop scalpel. We explain what forced perspective is and how to get it in this article on composition.
Most levitation photographs circulating on the Internet are photoshop products. You cut and paste and fly through the clouds if you want, however, there is a much simpler method, accessible to all, and with immediate results, so that from the moment we take the photograph, we get this disconcerting effect of levitation. This sophisticated new method is called . . . “jump”. Jump if you prefer. No more, there’s no greater mystery. It’s just a matter of jumping at the right time when the camera is taking the picture. It takes a little practice to reconcile time, but that’s it.
Sometimes a slight change of direction completely upsets the meaning and history of the photo. Of course, you have to have a photographic eye that “feels” this new photo that you want to express. So, where some people see a photo, the same, you see another, just with a slight change of direction or direction.
The car is not surrounded by sparks as it seems. This is an example of the technique of painting with light. If you are interested, here is a very complete tutorial on light painting.
Are you thinking of doing that?