Weird Perspective Soldiers

Before we start discussing today’s post, there’s one semi-crucial thing I’d like to share with you… hopefully someone will be able to help, eventually (?!). As you know, little while ago we have started our very own Facebook channel, which over time has accumulated more than 8,500 members. Unfortunately, back then I wasn’t aware that once you set the title of your FB page, there is no way of changing it. So instead of just naming it Mighty Optical Illusions, we named it Mighty Optical Illusions – Photography Fan Page (clumsy, right?). I’ve heard that Facebook occasionally bends its rules, and helps prominent brands in this situation, yet I don’t have direct contact with anyone inside. It would be of great help if some of our readers knew someone inside, or even better if you actually work for Facebook to instruct us what would be the best way to fix this error, thus enabling us to promote our page further (currently, it turns out pretty ugly when you promote it via FB ads, as title can’t be changed).

Anyway, check out how perspective plays with us in the following photo! The soldiers appear so close to each other, yet the difference in their size suggest different! BTW, there is a bonus Easter-Egg animation called “Superman Experience” hidden somewhere inside this article… let’s see how many of you can find it ;D

45 Replies to “Weird Perspective Soldiers”

    1. What happened to the links that used to be on the bottom of every pic? They were so cool and keeped me intertained all day as well as the illusions!

    1. ok,….
      i’ve clicked every link, looked at every page,,,,…..

      give us another hint…..
      plz…

  1. Got it! I was expecting it to be actually “hidden” though, so I went over this whole page at 400% zoom looking for a little hidden .gif you stuck in some corner lol. Nice one.

  2. Yay I found it.
    Hint: Its an animated Gif that shows a first person view of flying through space.

  3. Found it. Wasn’t too hard. Looks like a computer screensaver.
    Also the picture of the soldiers is befuddling. Something if off but I can’t put my finger on it.

  4. Yay! I found it too, thanks to your comment Rulo. Nice illusion, I’ve rarely seen perspective type illusions in the form of pictures, usually, they’re drawn.

  5. took me a moment… QTuON

    Nice.

    Yep, Telephoto Lenses will do this sort of thing. Had it been even brighter out and were the iris closed even more, the soldiers would be even more in focus.

  6. well i think its dat white thing on the floor..next to a the last two solider’s leg.

  7. The photo would have been taken with a tele-photo (long range) lens. This will compact images horizontaly, but the vertical perspective will remain the same. Look at the poles in the background – you can see the ‘compaction’ there.

  8. I suspect that our brain is interpreting the paved area as a road, when it is probably a runway or some other structure much larger than the road we think we are seeing.

  9. I gotta say, I usually love these illusions, but this one is a major stretch at best to be called anything except a pic of some soldiers standing next to a road. Maybe this type of forced perspective just works better for me in diagrams where there is no real background.

  10. are you people really that dumb… it took me 0.000005 seconds to see it look at the people they look like there getting smaller .. if you dont see it go back to school

  11. Like Dani said, it looks like a screen saver. Very good. As for the soldiers, I thin it is a photographic illusion done with a telephoto lens, with the soldiers standing on a slight incline.

  12. I didn’t think this pic was any kind of Illusion. Check out Mendolbloct Set or Factals. Khan Achcadeny, under Biology, Intelegent Design!?

  13. I FOUND IT! I FOUND THE EASTER EGG ANIMATION! JUST CLICK THE PICTURE AND CLICK THE PHOTO NEXT TO THE PICTURE’S SMALL VERSION! AND WHY DID I JUST YELL THAT OUT LOUD!

  14. heheh. the two guy’s that look like they’re far away (on the left…your left) are actually midgets!

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