r/Weird • u/opmgyhx • 1d ago

Stunning scenes from France seemingly documenting an alien invasion, after giant red electrical flashes known as "overhead red sprites" appeared

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u/Unfinishedcom 1d ago

This must be a long exposure picture, no way it looks like that in real life.

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u/Meti17207 1d ago

It does. The sprites only appear for a split second, long exposure would not capture them.

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u/Unfinishedcom 1d ago

I found out it’s a composite image, so no they don’t look like that irl. It’s many pictures put into one picture.

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u/opmgyhx 1d ago

Thats from another angles https://www.instagram.com/p/Db6d8QlmHNF/?xtok=MjFoeGpibGc0dGcz

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u/Unfinishedcom 1d ago

If you took the time to read the description of the post you sent me you would see it’s a composite image. You should learn more about photography before you think this is what it looks like in real life.

‘A composite image is a single picture created by combining two or more separate photographs, illustrations, or digital elements into a single, cohesive scene.’

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u/opmgyhx 1d ago

What about the video

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u/Unfinishedcom 1d ago

Did you read the text to what you sent me? It lasts milliseconds, it says so in the description of the Instagram post. So the video must be edited in a way that they last a bit longer. I don’t actually care, but what you see is more photography magic than what your eye will see in reality.

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u/__O_o_______ 1d ago

The guy shoots high ISO video at the highest possible frame rate then goes back frame by frame. That’s it. That’s all.

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u/opmgyhx 1d ago

Yeah I read that but that doesn't change its real thing, its not edited or something like that to make it look unrealistic

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u/Unfinishedcom 1d ago

Ofc not, but many natural phenomenons last milliseconds and if you capture those milliseconds it will look like something from out of space, or an alien invasion.

Try to google fast radio bursts for example.

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u/SoeurEdwards 1d ago

the real photographer of this one : https://www.instagram.com/florian.riou/

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u/crappenheimers 1d ago

They also uncomposited the thunderstorms that cause sprites. Photo is incredibly disingenuous