Can you guess how this magic trick was done? It looks like it’s including one candle and a mirror, or is that not all? This illusion is somewhat different than “Impossible Corner” and “Mirror Illusion”.
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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.
yay candles
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
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”.
at first i belived that there were to candles at different angles if u dont belive please take a look at this why is smoke blowing to the put out candle? in the bottom right hand corner of the mirror smoke is blowing to the candle
I don’t know about you guys but the smoke looks really fake. Maybe the smoke was added later, but the candle was still out anyway.
It’s just a candle in front of a painting! you guys think to hard and too much ;)
im a photographer, this is a realy easy trick that ive done myself. some of the people up above are right. the mirror is angled so that the candle in the mirror is actualy possitioned beside the lit candle, and the unlit candle is being reflected back. you can tell for two reasons. one) there is not only the smoke from the blown out candle in the mirror, but its also in the foreground in a much lighter visability, meaning its coiled around and worn out. the other way to tell is the lighting, and the shadow, and its position on both candles. you can see the candle is casting light to the left, and the lightsource on the bklown out candle is on the right.
it’s a painting
there are actually two candles, one is burning and the other one- on the left side of the burning one -is just blown off. we don’t see it because it’s been cropped out.
the one in the mirror is the reflection of the other candle, while the reflection of burning candle is cropped out.
Its actually two candles… the angle is such that we see just one. Its fairly obvious… a nice one tho!
they r not the same candle but that doesnt mean the mirror is fake its real but the reflection is from another candle you can try it at home with fingers real candles or whatever adn place yourself like the camera and the finger as one candle next to it another finger you will see that at the angle you are you will see your right finger or candle and in the mirrro the left one so this is real nice
i call it photoshop… woooh, it’s magic!
as the other guyz said its a different candle because the reflection is small in size and the camera took it from a little below so that the reflection feels real
It’s called photoshoped. There is no illusion.
This is AWESOME…lol Im on My skools comoputer doing this!! Its in a math lesson!! ;) Anyway, I LOVE it its so wikked– Absaloutly Brillopads!
there’s a candle behind the lit candle and the person took a picture in a angle where u can’t see the nonlit candle the angle is also not showing the lit candles reflection and it makes it look like the to candle and reflection belong to each other
Really?
But how can you explain the smoke present in candle in the mirror but not in the lit one?
Can anyone say….Photoshop!
They just got 2 candles, lit one and lit the other one, blew one out and put a picture frame in between them
Yes, Anonymous. Exactly!
its glass not a mirror?
Actually the reflection is of the unlit candle that is on the left side of the lit candle. Consider the angle of the mirror. The reflection of the lit candle should be on the right side of the picture.
It’s so easy! The mirror’s not a mirror, it’s just like a frame. They position the two candles on the opposite sides, and they light both of them, but extinguish one of them.
the lit candle is where it should be(assuming it’s a mirror)look
mirror –> _______________
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as u can see you’d see the lit candle on the left side of the reflection :)
the mirror is not actually a mirror…it’s just a painting but the candle is real
This one is esay to replicate at home with a mirror and two candles. Very easy indeed;) (tip: angle of view)
Suor de Sapo is right :D
figured it out on first glance haha
if you look closely, the reflection of the candle in the mirror is disproportional to the candle with the flame. This means there’s another candle behind the one that lit.
The placement of candles and the angle of the picture is perfect!
As we all know, whenever a candle is blown out, it leaves a smoke or mist behind. Which is what happened with the second candle.
But I’m not too certain about the mirror. I don’t really where if fits in with the photo.
omg the candle is out in the reflection! ghost XD
It’s a twoway mirror.Probably
what kind of black magic fuckery is this?!?!?
I think that the is just a bare frame, one with a lit candle and one blown out.
very easy… two candles
no mirror at all but the border of a mirror