A mirror frame without a mirror and two candles? Just a guess...

Mirror of the soul

The fire and the smoke
the light and the dark t
he life and the death...

Maybe it's a window, and no mirror.

So maybe you see 2 different candles ...

Perhaps it's just taken in an angle where the candle that's blown isn't seen in the picture but only in the mirror. See how the lit candle is so close to the left? probably the blown candle's just off to the side of it.

Well, first of all, I question the validity of this illusion because it's obviously been edited in Photoshop or a different program, considering that the flame is colored and everything else is strictly grayscale.

If we assume that the effect is real, then the frame just leads to another room, or the angle of the shot or the mirror or both has been messed with so that the mirror reflects a second candle.

^ Ooohhh... Good one, Chewy.

I think the mirror isn't there. I think it's a picture in the frame of a candle blown out, and then a candle lit up.

I think that ThomasElla has the most logical answer. Look closely, everything(other than the flame) is unusually grey.

photoshop...

Who ever can't tell that it was a pic of a candle that had been blown out is slow. You can tell the flame was photoshoped every thing is black and white. The only color in the pic is the vivid flame.

ThomasElla points out that since parts of the image has been desaturated to make it more artistic does not qualify as an argument that it's a fake. All images here has at some point been through an image editing program of some sort (like Photoshop) - if nothing else to "clean up" and crop/resize. This doesn't mean the subject is fake.

This is a very possible illusion. Eigther with a glass in the frame (you see the dirt, so it's not just an empty frame), or with a trick of angle/perspective like Chewy suggested. We will never know unless we figure out who made it.

I do not rule out a manipulation since it is not that hard to fake this eigther, but it takes just as much, if not more, than to reproduce the real illusion. However, after reviewing the image closer in photoshop i find nothing that suggest a manipulation, and if it is, it's a good one. I don't bother going into a detailed discussion since then i would make this post a mile long(er). ;)

leftie2: it's grey because the color has been removed to make the flame more of a focal point and make the artistic effect stronger. This is not a side-effect of a "fake" but a deliberate artistic choice.
toni ramos: baseless comment, i hate it when people throw that word around without any knowledge in the area.

uhh...i say photoshopped..=/

i agree with chewy

Just have one word to say: "Pepper's Ghost". OK, maybe 2 words, anyway, look it up on google...I learned about it in physics, our teacher showed it to us and freaked us out

ivh's thought was the first thing that came to my mind

photoshop lads!

xx

Like Chain said, just because the photo has been manipulated does not mean the illusion is not real. Also, the color effect is possible without the use of computers. I say it was probobly was done with a camera trick by using an odd angle and letting your brain assume it is a reflection.

its 2 pics of candles and then put side by side. im telling u. i saw it on TV before.

Yes, this has been photoshopped to make everything grayscale except the flame. But that doesn't mean it's not a real photo! Like Chewy said, there are two candles, but the camera is taken at an angle that you can't see the blown out candle anywhere except the mirror. Look closely: you can see some smoke wafting toward the flaming candle.

just like life:
the out side you look like your on fire, happy
but on the inside you dont really care....
=^.^=

I think it is easy. It is the angle. The candle with the flame is in the front. The one blown out is further behind. Due to the mirror and the angle it appears to be the same candle in the mirror.

i go with the mirror frame without the mirror idea...sorry to all who think otherwise...

i agree w/ ivh.

I think that everyone who says that this is not a "real illusion" should stop and think about what they are saying. Just because something is edited doesn't mean that it cannot qualify as an illusion. Enjoy! Don't berate!

don't just assume everything is made using photoshop... i hate when people do that. take the time to think about all the possibilities.

its simple! it is a candle that is it, and a picture of a candle that is not lit!

is the burned out one a painting or photo?

Hi! I love this illusion and made a background with it [here]. Love the site and thank you for bringing us illusions every day, even though people sometimes say they are bad illusions...

Double exposure. First the scene is dark and an exposure is made for the flame, then the scene is lit and the candle is blown out for the second exposure.

cool

Why can't anyone here just ENJOY the illusions instead of analyzing them? A lot of this stuff is really cool, and you shouldn't have to be all...whatever about it. I'm just saying...

The Flame does not reach the candle?

If you look at the angle of the frame with respect to the picture, there is no way that the reflection in the mirror is of the candle in the picture. Laws of physics do not lie. Like someone else mentioned, there is a smudge on the mirror so it can't be an empty frame. Also, in my opinion, it doesn't look like a gray scale photo, just an old dull frame. There is nothing else in the picture that should be colorful that shows gray.

With regards to the previous comment, if you look at a candle very closely you will notice that the flame never really reaches the wick.

I know this isn't photoshop. Some of you people don't look hard enough, it's actually just two candles, one was lit, and the other wasn't, and there is no mirror, that's what a real illusion looks like.

The candles are different sizes for a start.

i agree with ivh that its just a frame with 2 different candles.

either Pepper's Ghost illusion, google it if you don't know what that is, or a window with a candle on either side, one's been lit and one's been blown out. Our science teacher showed us it a few years ago.

that is cool.....

the one on the rightr is a painting

Have you guys thought the actual illusion may be colour based? Perhaps EVERY object was "grey", and the only true colour represented was the light candle. Perhaps the illusion is simply just a matter of us perceiving it as black/white white and going "photoshopped".