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Yeah, but that is related to the photo being a rip off. Manipulating the bars in the tower would be even simpler.

• michrassena 9y ago
  One thing I do for a hobby in addition to my usual interest in photography is enhance images in the public domain (e.g. combine the color separations of Prokudin-Gorskii's images into color images, merge multiple images to reduce noise or create a panoramic image, or find stereo pairs of images a lay them out for cross-eye viewing -- so in the same spirit, without as much work as those who colorize historic images). With that background, it's apparent there should be enough parallax, even given the long distance to the subject due to the claimed distance between photographers to create a stereo pair using the two images (some photographers make hyper-stereo images of mountains and clouds). If one image were derived from the other, it should be obvious -- the differences between the images would only be skin deep, e.g. the waves in the foreground, the different position of the bars at the top of the tower, but the entire body of the wave would be identical. Overlaying them and subtracting the difference, it can be seen that there are slight variations across the entire image, and when viewed as a stereo pair, there is an obvious stereo effect, the platform in front of the tower appears in space in front, the wave appears to wrap around the tower. What we're left with is the story that these two photographers didn't coordinate their images. I see no reason to disbelieve this. Like was stated elsewhere in this thread, the title is incorrect and the images weren't taken the same millisecond, so that makes the story less remarkable.