By Vurdlak on January 1, 2008, with 126 Comments
Hy everybody! I wish you all a happy New Year 2008! I’m writing this from Sarajevo, BiH from where we celebrated New Year’s eve. I hope you all won’t take it against me for not posting for the last few days. It’s just that holly days are coming one after another. Let’s jump into new year with fresh illusions and best wishes to everyone. Carl Betz sent in this photo that appeared on the front page of USA Today a few years ago. Apparently there was no photoshop involved, but I’m not exactly sure how the illusion was obtained. Either they found some really small horses, or they created big stools and tables. What do you think? If you like to guess this kind of stuff please take a look at the relative sizes category. Enjoy! I’ll arrive back home tomorrow, and write more detailed posts about our trip.
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I think it’s the props that are oversized. If you look at the flowerpot, the flower stems are too stiff to be real.
i think that some had a painting of horses and put a table and chairs by the wall.
the table and most of the horses are the “normal” size – the tables are closer to the camera and the horses are in the background – except for the horse infront of the table leg, which is probably a toy.
Thats cool, but very simple. All it is an enlarged set of furniture, placed strategically around a group of “small” horses. The effect is simple but unique.
I would have to believe that the furniture is BIG!
Or, maybe tiny horses…
Maybe the tables are close to the camera, and the horses are far?? I am not sure.
If it wasn’t photoshopped then it must be gimpped! ;)
lol this is awesome~
but it’s kinda obvious…the horses are farther back, and the tables/chairs are in the front. the horses are placed accordingly, so it looks like they’re small enough to fit under the tables and chairs.
very cool though~
I am pretty sure they are really chairs and tables, because those horses look smaller than the worlds smallest horse :)
Great picture i think they created big stools and tables, Reason being the table and chairs have the shadows in all the rights places and the table cloth looks like its made out of wood.
Great website
Happy new year to you all
i’ve seen this type of illusion before. the table and chairs are close and the horses are far away.
Its just a big table and chairs.
Not really an illusion but interesting just the same. :) We have a farm here in Illinois that has something very similar to this. Simply oversized furniture to give the appearance the horses are tiny. In our case it’s not a table and chairs but a recliner and some toys. It’s fairly easy to see if you pay attention to the shadows cast by the horses and the legs of the chairs. The light saturation of all objects in the image is the same which is incredibly difficult to reproduce with even Photoshop. If you open up the image in Photoshop, however, you will also notice that the histogram contains no gaps or artificial transitions which also indicates an authentic image. But of course, my favorite… the table cloth is perfectly angled and flat. :P I think Illinois also has an oversized wheel barrel somewhere near Carbondale (not quite sure though).
It’s big tables and chairs. I’ve seen this in the guiness book of world records.
definately big furniture
the table cloth looks a bit strange…
!!and awesome site!!
woot 1st comment!!! either they are big @$$ tables or small freakin horses
I think that the table itself is fake because you can see that the underside of the table cloth is wood. Also, it might have been photographed with the table being closer to the camera then the horses, because the shadows on the horses doesn’t match that which the table would produce, and you can’t see the table’s shadow
Goshness, that’s really cool. I wonder how they did it? I doubt they’re small horses, so I’m gonna go with big tables and chairs. It’s not perspective, some of the horses are in front of the legs of the table and chairs. Or perhaps they’re lying about no photoshop. I don’t know.
wow! thats cool! that looks like alot of work and wood! I think its just a bit photo shopped. so I think both that the table and chairs were built but it was photo shopped just a teenie tiny bit
We were all buzy with the Holidays,thus had little time to visit sites. Glad you are coming home and hope you get down to providing us fans with great stuff for the NEW YEAR.. Looking forward to that.. Horses are at a giants dinner party…………….
that’s definitely huge chairs. i mean really huge, like the size of a house. Also, there’s no way that would be normal chairs without it being photoshopped. look at the shadows!
Without the magic that is Photoshoppery–giant table and chairs.. right? there’s no other way.
First comment!
Thats not photoshopped?!
It’s very big furniture… the flowers are unnatural (like they are made of the same wood of the table) and also the table cloth is too rigid for real tissue (it’s also painted too irregularly… if it was a tissue the lines would be more straight).
The legs of the table and the chairs are too thin for a real size table (this is Statics)and could not support a real weight (apart the table itself).
Last but not least, the comparation with the fence…
If you try to draw the fugue lines of the oblique fence and object, you can see that the lines are almost parallel…. this means a very small angle of view (and a bigger focal length) because low focal length(or high angle) values cause bigger “perspective effects” (lines of the nearest objects are very oblique, and point all to the vanishing point).
Perspective effect in a wide-angle lens… nearest object are bigger than farthest (look at the small windows behind the fence)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/Focale-rama-028.jpg
Normal perspective effect in a normal lens. Lines are less inclinated and the windows are bigger.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Focale-rama-050.jpg
Telephoto lens. The perspective effect is almost disappeared. The windows are of the same size of the object (if not bigger).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Focale-rama-135.jpg
Because there isn’t any “perspective effect”, we have to think that the lens is a telephoto, but we saw before that with this lens background object are not so smaller than those on first plan, so we have to compare horses and furniture with the fence.
Horses are of the right size, furniture is much bigger.
PS. In Austria I saw a chair 30m high. It was an advertisement for a furniture factory that lied under it.
i think its photoshop, the furniture doesnt leave any shadows.
photoshop? or a really big table and chairs set? i would say a skewed perspective, but the horses seem to be shadowed… :/ this one makes me wonder. good illusion.
this picture was most probably taken on a Kentucky horse farm.
I don’t remember the name of the farm,but there is a statue, of Man O War,at the entrance!
still a cool illusion!
My Psychology Text had something similar to this, you cant see it very well, but the cross beams and such on the table/chairs is all disjointed, so the horses can pass through at what seems to be impossible angles.
I think those table and chairs were actually built…its been done before
Duh! They built a large table and chairs.
It certainly has to be BIG tables.
big tables
haha first comment
whoop first comment
um I m not really sure about his one
they Might of used paint shop or made really big table and chairs
This is an art installation.
Not the only one of it’s type, check out these by Italian Sculptor Giancarlo Neri in England:
http://ueba.com.br/forum/index.php?showtopic=16813
&
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4117974.stm
Cheers
John
CRAZY 1ST COMMENT I THINK
they built really big chairs and a table and flowers because the flowers are fake and the pot they’re in is really unusual because I don’t know anybody with a pot that looks anything like that.
I think it’s big table/chair. The horses seem normal size when you campare them to the fences
Stable and chairs ? hahaha
why would you waste soo much money on 40 foot long planks of wood? just to take one picture? i doubt it!
Ive seen large table sets like this in Holland, so I suspect this is a similar oversized sculpture and normal sized horses.
This image is Photoshopped. The shadows being cast do not allign to all objects in the photo. Not a bad effort though.
WaW I have not idea how they made this picture…but it’s very interesting!!
P.S.I’m Italian, so my English is not perfect…
big tables and chairs…
has to be also if u look at the bucket with flowers in it the flowers dont look real.
I would have thought the tables and chairs were close to the screen and the horses were far away but hen the horeses andchairs are intertwind so i really dont understand.
Hoaw ! 1st comment of the year !!!
I think it is a very big table – I can see that with the form…
ps: Great hello to Jean-Robbert :)
not an illusion just big tables???
Hi all, & Happy New Year to you and your folks…
Yes Definitely Big Furnitures there, i’m not an Expert carpenter or anything, but have a close look at angles and you’ll soon realise this is huge…
Cool Render anyways…
Keep on Posting Great things for 2008…
Regards from Sunny French Riviera
I’d say the table and chairs are much larger, cosidering that the flowers are obvious fakes.
Actually I’ve seen tables and chairs like that in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. It’s very possible that they simply brought the tables out to the field and put their horses there. No photoshop. Genuine. Cool.
It might not have photoshop but I think it is still tampered in a more basic way. you can see on the floor that the horse 3 from the right (4 from the left) looking at the camera is standing at the same level as the two horses on the right but he is infront of the table legs and the two on the right are behind the chair legs, which would be behind the table. This is a picture of horses with a table and chairs superimposed. I like it though, fun to look at.
Cute n all but I don’t see vary many shadows anywhere! Its like they were taken away in the most importat places.
While it’s a funny picture, I think you need to look up the word “illusion” in the dictionary. Most of your pictures are not illusions at all. If the table is big or the horses are small, it’s not an illusion, just a funny picture.
It’s Giant Furniture – a similar art installation was displayed on London’s Hampstead Heath a few years ago.
See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4120000/newsid_4120300/4120396.stm
They’d have to have some very large chairs because there’s no way an actual horse could fit under a chair like that unless they’re some realistic toys.
I’m inclined to say really big table and chairs, but where are the shadows?!?!?! that makes no sense!!!
Big table and chairs. But what a waste of time to build something so ridiculous.
They made very large tables and chairs, you can tell because the “tablecloth” is not flowing in the wind, as you would expect it to be, and also, the red lines on it are a little crooked. Also, the brushes might be a little to long.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Happy new year 2008!
I did some research and it turns out that the picture listed above is niether photoshoped, made with big chairs or even with little horses. It is actualy a wall murel that was made for the youngest child in a ranch estate, after it was done the dad took a picture of it and sent it in. It looks realistic, but its not. another way to tell is that, while done very well, saving this picture to your desktop and opening it so that you can zoom in to full extent will show you that there are pixles, about 100 every square cm. :( sorry to burst your bubble. HAPPY NEWYEARS! EAT SOME BLACK EYE’D PEAS TONIGHT!
I think the tables are closer and the horses are far away.
Yay first post!
I’ve actually seen something like this in person before, being born in horse country and all. It’s really big chairs and tables.
Hahaha, that’s original!
I think there was photoshop involved. The chairs and table don’t have shadows.
cool illusion.great start to the new year.1st comment?yea ha
Looks like they built some giant tables and chairs, and probably used Shetland ponies to create this amusing picture.
i’ve seen these before, you take a picture of a table really close to tha camra and in front of horses that are far away
still really cool though
The “furniture” is obviously fake as is the “table cloth” and “flowers”. Someone has built large scale items just to make an optical illusion and catch the attention of passersby.
they created big tables and chairs because there is no way you can get a horse so small.
I am thinking very large tables and chairs…but who knows…other people think differently…so let me know…first to post I think…w00t!
I think it is really big table and chairs and what not…I am the first to post so I am sure people will agree and disagree with me too…I just want to see what other people think…>_<
there was a giant chair, similar to those two, in a park here in rome some time ago: i think it’s in britain now.
The flowers are fake so I’m guessing the setup with the tables and chair were made much bigger than normal. Much easier to make a big chair than to find or create that many dwarf horses.. Still its funny
That tablecloth looks too straight and perfect. It really looks like it was edited to me, especially around the edges of the horses. Not only that, but those horses seem suspiciously familiar to me. I may be wrong, if I am I’d also like to know how this was done.
Omg! I love it. Mabey i love horses? ;)
I have no idea how they did that?! Maybe it’s a camera trick, I don’t know. I’m not good with this kind of stuff!
Good illusion :) ♥
those cant be real horses, or photo shop, eather one works
Everything is real – the chairs and table etc are made from fence posts.
Those are not real horses they have a plastic kind of tint. They should be called tables and toys.
Hey that’s great…!
Happy New Year everyone!!
Where is the shadows? Had to be cut and paste. Still a tricky little picture.