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I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.

by pandemic_region 2y ago

serf 2y ago
I did too, I wonder if this image was included in some other package somewhere?
hoyd 2y ago
Reminded me of pointerpointer.com and for some reason new kids on the block.
mikae1 2y ago
> TinEye searched over 69.1 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- voidUpdate 2y ago
  Google's reverse image search (images.google.com, click the little camera) can perform better in many cases, though here it only finds the linked page
  - account42 2y ago
    Yandex reverse image search can also be useful often, although in this case it just gives you other images of people with basketballs. Curse whoever decided to introduce AI to reverse image search.
lmm 2y ago
It's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.
- cpach 2y ago
  When I look at the sky and the bricks I get the impression that the photo has “grain”. I wonder if it was actually shot on film.
  - layer8 2y ago
    Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.
    - account42 2y ago
      Digital camera sensors are still quite noisy, perhaps even more so as sensors have gotten smaller while resolutions have gotten higher (meaning even smaller pixels). We just process all the noise away most of the time.
      - layer8 2y ago
        Good point. “Visibly noisy” would have been more accurate.
    - jfjdkfnjrhr 2y ago
      This is definitely scanned. Digicams quality was terrible at the turn of the century
- bityard 2y ago
  It's not from a digicam, it's a scan of a photo. The white bar on the left is from a subpar cropping job and is slightly crooked. The resolution (1275x1167) is higher than a typical 3:4 digital image sensor of the day, which would have maxed out at 640x480 in the late '90s to early 2000's, maybe 1024x768 for a really high-spec (expensive and uncommon) camera. As for the "look", I'm not a photographer but this was likely taken on either a low-end handheld film camera or disposable jobbie, which were absolutely ubiquitous around this time frame because they were so cheap (practically free, until you went to develop them). The picture was taken on an overcast day at dusk, later in the evening. Just dark enough to auto-trigger the insufficient flash which lights up the middle of the image and puts everything in the periphery in a dark shadow. I do like that the kid with the beer isn't looking at the camera and seems to have missed the point that everyone was supposed to be holding the ball.
arresin 2y ago
Me also. Immediately. And I see a lot of other people. I think it’s the baggy formal shirt and hair styles.

I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.

serf 2y ago

I did too, I wonder if this image was included in some other package somewhere?

hoyd 2y ago

Reminded me of pointerpointer.com and for some reason new kids on the block.

mikae1 2y ago

> TinEye searched over 69.1 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

voidUpdate 2y ago
Google's reverse image search (images.google.com, click the little camera) can perform better in many cases, though here it only finds the linked page
- account42 2y ago
  Yandex reverse image search can also be useful often, although in this case it just gives you other images of people with basketballs. Curse whoever decided to introduce AI to reverse image search.

lmm 2y ago

It's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.

cpach 2y ago
When I look at the sky and the bricks I get the impression that the photo has “grain”. I wonder if it was actually shot on film.
- layer8 2y ago
  Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.
  - account42 2y ago
    Digital camera sensors are still quite noisy, perhaps even more so as sensors have gotten smaller while resolutions have gotten higher (meaning even smaller pixels). We just process all the noise away most of the time.
    - layer8 2y ago
      Good point. “Visibly noisy” would have been more accurate.
  - jfjdkfnjrhr 2y ago
    This is definitely scanned. Digicams quality was terrible at the turn of the century
bityard 2y ago
It's not from a digicam, it's a scan of a photo. The white bar on the left is from a subpar cropping job and is slightly crooked. The resolution (1275x1167) is higher than a typical 3:4 digital image sensor of the day, which would have maxed out at 640x480 in the late '90s to early 2000's, maybe 1024x768 for a really high-spec (expensive and uncommon) camera. As for the "look", I'm not a photographer but this was likely taken on either a low-end handheld film camera or disposable jobbie, which were absolutely ubiquitous around this time frame because they were so cheap (practically free, until you went to develop them). The picture was taken on an overcast day at dusk, later in the evening. Just dark enough to auto-trigger the insufficient flash which lights up the middle of the image and puts everything in the periphery in a dark shadow. I do like that the kid with the beer isn't looking at the camera and seems to have missed the point that everyone was supposed to be holding the ball.

arresin 2y ago

Me also. Immediately. And I see a lot of other people. I think it’s the baggy formal shirt and hair styles.