Found this image on flickr, it was originally taken by user called mrettig. This one really bugs me! How was it done? Is it some anti gravity spot just like “Mystery Spot” was? Or is it some cheap, low-life trick you can do by taking photo with camera that isn’t horizontally ligned with floor? I for one, seriously don’t know.
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for a hint – look at the trees in the background
The road is on an incline (it’s a hill), but the camera was tilted to match the slope of the road. People take funny shots like this all the time on Lombard St in San Francisco.
It seems like he is on a slope due to the angle of the trees in the background.
really amazing
Either that or someone skewed the picture using paint (or possibly a combination of sloped road and skew)
It is simply a freeway bridge underpasss slope and he is standing on it, the bridge point and embankment meet to his left and the roadbed is to his right. Nothing to see here move along….
You can see that all the trees and the fence is the same direction as the man
I loved your site – especially the picture of the Pope.
The underpass and slope idea seem right, but how do you account for the angle of his body relative to the postion of his shoes? He’s not standing straight up so he must be leaning against the pull of gravity or otherwise he’d fall over. Really like the site!
I assume he has ankle joints.
that’s some steep hill…. i don’t know, look at his feet, they look inorganic to the rest of the photo- the picture definitly was tampered with, but like Tim said, it could be a combination of skew and hill
its just crap
theres a house where the floor is inclined like this in ottawa and you feel so drunk when you just stand in it. funny
BORING!!!!
im confused
Hai shut up. U dont noe sh^t about shi^
Well duh its a bridge. Have you ever seen grafitti on the ground before?
wtf? u can see his feet r on the floor and there is graffitti on the floor ! wot r u on alex
I’ve seen grafitti on the ground many times.
Derr…
It is obvious that this is an incline with the camera tilted to match. The slant of the trees and fence….the slant of the persons (looks like a Pat or a Chris) feet. Nice looking illusion but simple to decipher. Not rocket science…or a “haunted creepy place”
TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THE TREES!!!!!!!!!!!!!*^_^*
anyone can do this trick with a cell phone camera. get into a fast vehilce and grab a photo of something nearby, abt 5-7 feet from you. it’ll give you same illusion. i have phots of this. can anyone tell me how to post them here as the proof?
nope, sry Mumbaikar. you can get a special cable thingy, but they’re not cheap
it is a cut out and a dude is behind the cut out dude and he is like crouching… indeed.. look at it the light man …its a picture man … a big cut out picture of an ugly dude!
my question is how one leg is longer than the other ;)
ha ha he fall ovea
HAHA AWSUM I ONLI JUZ GOT IT VERY FUNNY JOKE
hes leaning up against a volleyball net
Ok,
this has been taken, or cropted at an angle. They guy is standing upright and the trees are growing upright. He is standing a significantly sloping surface. The thing that makes this illusion work better than normal for these, generally cheep tricks, is that the fence behind him as been built at the same slope as the hill on which he stands. In this case both the floor and the fence have now become horizontal, making the illusion more effective. As a previous observer mentioned however, look at the trees.
. . . very stupid
i think he’s superman. :D
Even though the trees are not straight, trees do grow squew and the fence is straight!
That fence isn’t strait, What are you on? Look at the poles on the end or middle of the fence.
And another thing, You are all crazy! This type of illusion is very simple. I would guess that the camera is parrelel to the floor and he is just standing up strait. It is just that simple.
I agree w/ Tony.
This is a video of Criss Angel. That old guy might have done this, but doing it backwords
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=8uxfpssqzr
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heh…just a joke. sorry, i’m bored.
cool “illusion.”
(^0^)
hes on a skate ramp???
Hahahahaha… its pretty obvious when you look at the trees and the fence. Especially the fence.
if u notice the tag on the bottem of his bag it isnt falling directly down(from his angle). so he must have been standing correctly up straight when this happened.
James Mcardle
i think the guy is just falling down and the person with the camera shot at the right moment.
I think it’s under a bridge.
trees are ant-geotrpic meaning they grow away from the force of gavity (exept the roots) so the trees are pointing up
ahhhh yes but look at the fence it is normal
well probably some kind of hill and everything and the person were standing up towards the sky but the person taking the picture was aligned with the hill
Um why is everyone saying the same answer over and over again
YAY ‘NICEBOY’!!!
I have one thing to say- LOL!!!! Normally I hate ‘lol’ and never use it but you actually made me laugh out loud- Bravo!!
More :
http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalog/1297823016/
Look at the trees, they always grow(or try to grow) straight up, that gives the illusion away… …nice, though.
i think u used photoshop to make the person look like that…
I know how this happens. It happened to me once by accident. Perhaps some of you didn’t notice, but the trees in the background are off too. When you’re driving by and taking a photo using long shutter time, it will make it look like this. The reason is that the shutter moves from top to bottom and thus making your position a little different when the shutter reaches the end. I don’t know how to explain it better. Very cool though, i was completely amazed when it happened to me on my Sony Ericsson phone camera.