How This Viral Wedding Dress Photo Shows the Bride in Three Different Poses at Once
Over the weekend, some internet users were busy figuring out why a routine photo of a bride trying on her wedding dress turned out to be so strange.
At first glance, there is nothing strange in the image – just a bride standing in front of two mirrors in a wedding dress. However, if you look closely at the bride and both mirrors, you will see that in all three places she is attractive in different poses, all in one photo.
The bride in question, Tessa Coates, took to her social media to ask the internet for an explanation. Coates swore it was a regular photo taken on the iPhone 12, without any additional effects or features such as Live Photo or panorama. She even shared a screenshot of the photo’s metadata as proof:
Considering all this, the situation was a bit of a stalemate. How can a standard photograph capture three different poses at the same time? Coates shared her story of visiting an Apple Store where a genius told her it was the result of the iPhone taking multiple frames at once and then intelligently stitching them together. That is, for simplicity’s sake, that’s how the iPhone takes HDR photos, but that doesn’t seem to be the reason here. Author and MKBHD researcher David Imel didn’t even think the photo was real , which pokes holes in the HDR theory since the process happens too quickly to allow multiple poses to be photographed.
Spoiler: all this time there was a panoramic mode.
However, the case appears to have been solved. Farouk from YouTube channel iPhonedo highlighted that the photo’s resolution (3028 x 3928) is not the standard image resolution of the iPhone 12. When Farouk took the photo with his iPhone 12, the resolution became 3024 x 4032 again. A small difference, but the clue Farouk needed. to understand what’s going on. In the end, he correctly identified the resolution as a panoramic photo, even though the photo was not labeled “Panorama” as is usually the case. It turns out that if you don’t move your iPhone enough when taking a panorama, it won’t label the photo as “Panorama.” Go figure it out.
Panoramic shots are taken sequentially as you move the camera from left to right. He then stitches these photographs together to create the illusion of one long image. So, according to Farooq’s theory, what most likely happened here is that Coates’ photographer actually took the photo in Panorama mode, but didn’t move the camera enough to register it as a panoramic photo. However, they moved it just enough to take several photographs of the scene, including Coates in three different poses. The left mirror was captured first, then Coates herself, and finally the mirror on the right.
You can repeat the situation yourself, at least with one mirror. If you frame your subject with at least one mirror on the side, switch to Panorama mode in the camera app, and then take a photo by moving your phone slightly from left to right, the subject in the mirror should look different from itself. .
Let’s move on to the next Internet mystery.