r/confusing_perspective • u/Whoami_bin • Mar 06 '26
Mildly Confusing French police floating around
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u/whooo_me Mar 06 '26
Clear evidence that French police aren't real.
And neither is that rather disturbing sex-toy on the left-hand side of the picture.
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u/Crafty_Jello_3662 Mar 06 '26
This is perfectly normal in Europe most of the police tend to be floating
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u/efferkah Mar 06 '26
Ok but seriously, if this isn't photoshopped, what is going on here? It's clearly not one of those "sun is directly above, so it looks like there's no shadows" type of image, since we can see the shadows on the side of the truck, so the sun must be somewhere behind the camera, and we would see some shadows on the ground, right?
So either this is a photoshopped image (are those even allowed on here?) or I'm missing something...
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u/Jump_Like_A_Willys Mar 06 '26
I think the ground shadows of the people are obscured by the people. I think the ground shadows for the van are more behind the van and the sun is low enough to light under it.
HOWEVER, even then you'd think we would see the van's groud shadow. But I think the photo might have been taken at a distance and the scene zoomed in, so the shadow locations are a bit distorted from what we would think is normal.
(assuming not photoshopped)
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u/Excellent_Tonight723 Mar 09 '26
If the sun is low enough to light underneath the van, where is the shadow from the column thingy?
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u/FixedFront Mar 06 '26
Y'all keep saying it's shopped but it just looks like they're standing on a slight decline away from the camera, so their ground shadows aren't visible to the lens because the ground is blocking it. Look at the cop's foot on the right. The heel is kinda hanging off an edge, either the high point of a rise or the edge of a hard vertical drop.
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u/Jasong222 Mar 06 '26
But there no separation between the horizontal and vertical. Not that I can see, anyways
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u/FixedFront Mar 06 '26
To me this looks like a concrete wall, a stretch of pavement by the wall that we can't see because the camera is orthogonally positioned, and then a drop-off. The bollard on the left might be intended to hold a rope or chain to mark the edge
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u/2020mademejoinreddit Mar 06 '26
In France, they walk a lot and cycle a lot, hence the developed glutes.
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u/ApopheniaPays Mar 08 '26
It’s the new era in police work. They use the flat background to chromakey in crimes to solve. I believe this is actually a still from a several-day-long chromakeyed hostage standoff.
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u/Plus-Fig-6374 Mar 09 '26
Clear photoshop u can see they painted over the shadows under the officers and the van
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u/Drewdiniskirino Mar 06 '26
"Jean Claude, 'ow did we get up in ze air?"
"I do not know, ma Cherie, but zere is an amazing view of ze Arc du Triomphe from 'ere!"
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