This was back when it was a sort of fad to take in a picture to some service at a big store (I’m remembering Zayre so that should tell you something about when it must have been) and they would blow it up to poster size for a nominal fee. Remember that poster of Farrah Fawcett? That’s the era.
So my idea was to take a full length picture of myself looking straight into the camera and facing straight ahead. Do the blow-up-to-poster size and then hang this one on the wall. Then have somebody else take a picture of me standing next to this original shot and looking at it from about a 45-degree angle, so now there are two images of me in the second picture: one of me looking straight ahead and another of me in semi-profile looking at that first image. This second shot gets the blow-up-to-poster-size treatment and replaces the original poster.
Repeat the second shot’s setup of me standing at an angle looking at the new poster so now there are three images of me, all full-length. One is of me looking straight ahead, the next is of me looking at the first image and the third is me looking at me looking at me.
Repeat the process until the result is a complete circle of me looking at myself.
Somehow at the time I had it in my mind that such a thing would be possible. But I never put it to the test.
Have you had such an idea? Or one to top that one?
Interesting idea, but I don’t think it would work properly past the second iteration, because rotating a picture of you doesn’t rotate image of you within it (unless it’s a hologram); unless you change the angle at which you are standing, looking on each time, you’ll have a picture of you standing 45 degrees on to a picture of a picture of you standing 45 degrees on to a picture of you standing 45 degrees on to… a picture of you facing the camera; it will just look like a straight queue of people lining up to look at you; not a circle.
I say you can do this easily with with a digital camera and “cloning” using Photoshop. You’ll have to take the picture 8 times (8 45 degree angles in a cirlce), and you should plot out 8 spots in a circle on the floor for every 10 minute mark. You know, to be precise and all. Set the camera to timer, should you need it, but the camera cannot move, and must be still. A tripod is recommended.
Another problem is that the older posters would get worse and worse looking with each step in the process. They’d get the “copy of a copy of a copy of a copy” symdrome. Soon, you’d be looking at a grainy, Zeldar-esque blob.
Sorry…I ruin things too.