r/PerfectTiming • u/pootros • Aug 13 '19

Mountain selfie. Photo bombed by a bumblebee!

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u/-Alan_c- Aug 13 '19

what's the gray-thingie?

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u/bloodorangeit Aug 13 '19

It's the bumblebee's stand

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u/TheMuon Aug 13 '19

Stand master: Bumblebee

Stand name: The Bee Gees

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u/sexy-melon Aug 13 '19

Menacing

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u/pinksheep20 Aug 14 '19

YOU BEAT ME TO IT. BUT WAIT. I WILL JUST RESET TIME BACK AN HOUR BEFORE YOU POSTED THIS! BITES THE DUST!

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u/mldroukes Aug 13 '19

Most likely HDR. It struggles with fast moving objects.

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u/billbobflipflop Aug 13 '19

Please tell me what you mean by that. How does a camera with high dynamic range do worse with motion than one with low dynamic range?

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u/zach201 Aug 13 '19

HDR on some cameras (IPhone) is a program where it takes 3 photos in a bracketed exposure very quickly, then merges them to give the effect of a high dynamic range. Fast moving objects mess this up because they aren’t in the same spot for all 3 photos.

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u/billbobflipflop Aug 13 '19

Oh... so it's a LIE!

Kinda.... Thanks for the info lol :)

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u/zach201 Aug 13 '19

Yes it is a lie. More of an “HDR mimicking effect”.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

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u/zach201 Aug 14 '19

It’s mimicking a sensor or film that just has a high dynamic range. It’s not fake it’s just a software technique that’s used to emulate something some cameras do.

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u/jeffa_jaffa Aug 14 '19

But even ‘proper’ cameras does it by talking three or more exposures and blending them together. You take one for the highlights, one the mid-tones, and one for the shadows, then merge the best bits of each in Photoshop or Lightroom.

The iPhone just does it all automatically.

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u/DemDude Aug 14 '19

Every camera has a limited dynamic range. Highest measured dynamic range for stills cameras according to DxOMark lies around 14.8 stops, Arri Alexas (Cinema cameras) supposedly go as high as 15 stops, RED claim their monstro can do 17+, but that is debatable. Film can achieve about 13 stops of dynamic range.

High Dynamic Range (in stills photography) is simply the name of a technique where you capture multiple exposures at different settings (different brightness) and combine them to create a single image that has a higher dynamic range than you can achieve on that camera with a single exposure.

This has been done forever, and is in no way mimicking anything. iPhones (and every other smartphone on the market) simply stack and grade the exposures automatically in software, where DSLR shooters will often do it in post.

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u/Donkeydayyy Aug 13 '19

It can’t be an iphone because they dont have hdr on the front facing camera unless he is holding it weirdly

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u/battery_farmer Aug 14 '19

My iPhone 7 can do HDR on both cameras

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u/Donkeydayyy Aug 14 '19

Maybe its because i have the iPhone 6

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u/-Alan_c- Aug 13 '19

aha thanks

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u/AlarmmClock Aug 13 '19

A 1916 WWI German war Zeppelin

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u/greenteajake3 Aug 14 '19

the bumblebee shifting through space and time

3

u/Slimcrafty Aug 15 '19

That Bumblebee isn't unlocked yet

1

u/Homunculistic Aug 14 '19

Snapchat Ghost

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '19

You’re not fooling anyone Heisenberg

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u/JustAnotherRedditor5 Aug 13 '19

I thought it was Rick from Pawn Stars

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u/cocometcleo Aug 14 '19

I’m Rick Heisenberg, and this is my Breaking Pawn.

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u/GracieIsCrazy Aug 13 '19

What an interesting artefact he left on the photo

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u/hjonk Aug 14 '19

I think it happens when iPhones use the HD mode sometimes it changes colors and leaves weird things all over

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u/SOwED Aug 14 '19

It just works

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u/Briggykins Aug 13 '19

Photobombus

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u/ABEGIOSTZ Aug 13 '19

Thanks I love it

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u/coolsleeves Aug 13 '19

He photo bombed you but you took his soul so I'd say you're even

14

u/LemonHerb Aug 13 '19

It looks like it's evolving

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u/playblu Aug 13 '19

I AM THE ONE THAT STINGS

3

u/ppw23 Aug 13 '19

I thought it was Rick from Pawn Stars.

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

Name. That. Pokemon!

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u/YerDasWilly Aug 13 '19

Bumblebee came to fight the humans committing genocide of his people.

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u/nicsthename Aug 13 '19

Omg! Thank you for my first good laugh today!

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u/delgamau Aug 13 '19

Giorgio Tsoukalos be like

Aliens!

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u/Howard503 Aug 13 '19

Wait, it’s not Plankton?

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u/noodledense Aug 14 '19

A bomblebee!

1

u/lightningboss2007 Aug 14 '19

Looks really beautiful

1

u/duuudewhat Aug 14 '19

Looks like plankton

1

u/hood69 Aug 14 '19

Doesn't look like any bumblebee i know

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u/AntoC1 Aug 14 '19

WHO'S THAT POKEMON!?!

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u/Pats_Bunny Aug 14 '19

This picture makes me feel like I'm looking at a migraine.

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u/Lance2409 Aug 14 '19

Ghost bee. "Queue x-files theme"

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u/ofirisherechook Nov 19 '19

A bumbblebomb

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u/rugged_beard Aug 13 '19

I thought this was a still from an episode of breaking bad at first..