Theodoros Fotometria
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I still wonder (after 27 years) how this shadow ever formed... I barely had the time to see it and shoot it, it appeared and disappeared in no time... The witch/goblin following people outside the bank!
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Mystery shadow...
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Michael Nagel
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The shot is brilliant.
I think you saw it already - the explanation is rather simple. The head of the witch is obviously the shadow of the head of the person seemingly followed. The top of the head is in the brick wall, the part which is the furthest away, the brim is a small part of th wall which extends the furthest from the bricks and the face is from a part which is les far away from the bricks. The rest is the angle of the sun and the angle from where you were shooting.
Best regards,
Michael
I think you saw it already - the explanation is rather simple. The head of the witch is obviously the shadow of the head of the person seemingly followed. The top of the head is in the brick wall, the part which is the furthest away, the brim is a small part of th wall which extends the furthest from the bricks and the face is from a part which is les far away from the bricks. The rest is the angle of the sun and the angle from where you were shooting.
Best regards,
Michael
Doug Kerr
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Hi, Theodoros,
It is from the rightmost of the figures in the shot (slender person in a dark coat).
The contour of the wall (with the "cove" distorts the shadow of the head).
Cute effect!
Best regards,
Doug
I still wonder (after 27 years) how this shadow ever formed... I barely had the time to see it and shoot it, it appeared and disappeared in no time... The witch/goblin following people outside the bank!
It is from the rightmost of the figures in the shot (slender person in a dark coat).
The contour of the wall (with the "cove" distorts the shadow of the head).
Cute effect!
Best regards,
Doug
Theodoros Fotometria
New member
Yet it's not entirely! ...The contour you are saying is a part of it, the rest is combination... I am still puzzled to work it out how the effect appeared! Look at the rest of the shadows... you can see the "body language" is totally different... You are obviously right for the head of the "witch" shadow formation though...
Theodoros Fotometria
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Thanks for your "brilliant" Michael... when it comes from you it's ...at least important.
I've seen that far..., but look at some details (like the "fingers" for example)... and surely the "body language" is not as simple as you say... Look at where the legs of the last man that is followed lead for instance... the front of the shadow has nothing to do with him! ...nor the back of it entirely... but there (at the back of the shadow) it's easier to explain...
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
There's no single source of the light. Was this in the evening? A passing car with headlights could give the unique shadow.
Asher
Asher
Theodoros Fotometria
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No Asher... you've got it wrong, It's a bright Saturday morning in Wales UK... The two men in front of the shadow are walking at a fast pace and at constant distance with the wall... I first shaw the head formation because of the cove on the wall (that was 5-6 yards earlier) and lifted the camera, framed, focused and followed the scene through my FM-2's VF... then the shadow body of the "witch" formed ...and I shot the picture. It all happened fast but it was like slow motion in my mind... it still is "slow motion" whenever I recall my memory on the happening.
The shadow is all because of the sun... (you can see the rest of the shadows on the wall - they match the women in the picture), I've figured out that the "hump" on the shadow has been formed by the (right) shoulder of the man that is walking next to the one with the coat and his shadow interference with the taller young man... but the front of the shadow and the fingers that looks like the "witch" is holding her "cloak" are still a mystery to me!
Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Well, then, we're left with the witch and the people waiting around and now we have evidence on witches!
That's what evidence sometimes is, transient. Then after that we have belief and after that war!
Asher