- - Wide angle… 
Posted on 05/09/2020 10:10:53 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
Everyone knows that reality is subjective. Our perception may change in an instant depending on how much and what exactly we know. But two Danish photographers have taken the idea to a whole new level.
In the times of the current crisis, keeping a safe distance is key. Even if countries are starting to ease restrictions on quarantine, it doesn’t mean it’s over. But how do we know, from the pictures alone, that people are doing what’s right? It turns out, we can’t.
Photographers Ólafur Steinar Gestsson and Philip Davali conducted an experiment for the photo agency Ritzau Scanpix. The Copenhagen-based artists photographed the same people chilling out outside on the same day. Their trick was to use two different perspectives—a wide angle and a telephoto lens. The pictures show a staggering difference in the distance between these people and make us rethink the things we take for granted.
Bored Panda contacted Kristian Djurhuus, the editorial manager at Ritzau Scanpix, who appointed Philip Davali and Ólafur Steinar Rye Gestsson for this shoot, to find out more about the project.
Kristian told us how he came up with the idea: “The proximity of people has widely been debated in Denmark in the past weeks. Danish politicians and authorities have frequently referred to images which they believed to show members of the public behaving in disagreement with the general guidelines.”
As a national photo news agency that supplies visual coverage on the coronavirus pandemic, “we became aware that our contribution could be misread,” said Kristian. This unique and critical situation has assigned a new meaning to basic technical facts like the choice of angle and perspective. “The technical choices have never been a debatable issue in the history of photography,” Kristian explained.
Since the issue of misreading photography is completely new, Kristian can’t see why it can be used with ill intent. And this is something we need to be aware of. “As producers of photography, we have a responsibility to draw attention to the fact that images in some cases does not show the proximity of objects as people seem to believe.” Kristian said that the right solution would be to clarify the circumstances in the captions of the images so that they won’t be misread.
The wide angle is similar to the way our eyes see. Ólafur Steinar Gestsson explained to a local Danish website: “it takes wider pictures, and as a photographer, you use it when you are close to what you need to photograph.” Similar types of cameras are built into our iPhones.
Meanwhile, the telephoto lens is the long lens used to photograph press meetings, football matches, and any situation where the subject is far away. “It gets closer to what you are photographing, and in a way, it pulls the subject together,” he said.
Ólafur told TV2 that viewers should be aware of the lens and equipment photographers used to take a particular picture. “If there was a description in the caption of how the image was taken, the editor would have the freedom to choose.” According to him, photographers “must always keep in mind how we do our job, especially in times of the corona crisis.”
Everyone knows that reality is subjective …Oh boy. If reality was really subjective, I can stand on train tracks and declare that according to subjective reality, an oncoming train would not kill me—and it wouldn’t. But then, there is something called objective reality . . .
- - Wide angle…
The media has been using tricks like this to receive from the beginning — some oftheir pet causes might have a small pittance of people taking part in a march or protest, but they make it look like everyone in the background is taking part.
You wanna see manipulation, here’s a short clip where actor Steve Buscemi’s face was placed on Jennifer Lawrence’s head. It’s creepy. And it’s worrisome, as it shows how easily a video can be faked.
Very well done, and that’s a problem.
This happened at the Newport Beach beach-goers two weeks ago during a suffocating heat wave in So. Cal. One aerial photo showed some decent distancing. Another taken from the pier made it look more crowded. The sand level shots were the worse, which is what Newsom went ballistic about. It’s all about the angle of the shot.
Not so sure about what happened at NB. I heard about this in real time because I have family that live there. What I heard was that the beaches were quite crowded, but that it was mostly a young crowd.
FYI, I also understand that cases per capita in NB are pretty low.
If every could see the inside of a TV studio, or visit the House of Reps, for example, they would understand the visual perspective that is used. Better yet...go to Disney World and really look around. Perspectives, dimensions, and even the smells are manufactured.
The world presented on TV is always manipulated. If it wasn’t, it would be a big chaotic mess and it would be difficult to follow on a smaller screen.
Gosh, no one since before the invention of photography had noticed this before.
;^)
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I was in Seoul South Korea before the 88 Olympics. A news organization was taping video of a small demonstration in front of Eighth Army. The media was taping it so that it looked like people standing at a bus transfer point were in the demonstration.
LOL! Hey, you could get a job at CNN.
You'd think that the Governor of the "Cinema State" would understand perspective, and the angle of the shot in photography.
Obviously, he does not.
Maybe he needs to go back to High School to learn about photography, (home )economics,
and the Dale Carnegie school of getting along with people and " How to win Friends and Influence People".
Visual propaganda bookmark
They didn’t get Steve’s teeth right
Propaganda is not new. Everyone falls for it. Most people are weak in some part of their mind. The propagandists are as good as a good magician even though much of it is as much of a “trick” as three card monty on people(marks).
except for the last pair of photos, all the rest of the pairs, the two pictures are not the same
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