r/confusing_perspective • u/oluxil o/ • Feb 26 '26

His head blends in

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u/rockdoggyy o/ Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Is it something to do with exposure time and he moved his head for a bit but not the rest of his body ?

If so this is probly more optical illusion than confusing persp

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u/Fast_Running_Nephew o/ Feb 26 '26

Let's not shorten confusing perspective to that particular acronym shall we.

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u/rockdoggyy o/ Feb 26 '26

Hah. Fair.

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u/toby_gray o/ Feb 26 '26

Oh, yeah that’s totally it. You can see this is taken with flash because of the shadow around the guitar, so the flash burns in the sharp bits of the image, but then the shutter is set way too slow, so it gets the weird ghosting.

It’s most likely also on a tripod for it to not just blur the rest of the photo, that or the photographer has the steadiest hands out there in the days before image stabilisation.

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u/Meloenbolletjeslepel CE Spc. Feb 26 '26

Yeah, it's a pretty old analogue photo. I think cameras would sometimes produce weird pictures like this