Rotate it in “real time”? How did you determine the speed of rotation?
Smile? There have been a lot of shots of models in the Times (all clothed) and smiling seems out of style. Most of them look like they’re sucking on a lemon. The women in the link are positively beaming compared to them.
In any case we don’t know that the photographer didn’t tell them to change their expressions so their face wouldn’t freeze or something.
Dude, I don’t know what your problem is. Those women are all totally into me!
I take back everything I’ve ever said about the moderators.
I stand by my initial impression of personal projection on the part of the OP. This is some quacky shit.
This whole thread solved by post 10.
The expressions don’t bug me; the thing that gets me is the pure, naked (hah!) artificiality of the whole process. Between the lack of background and the flat lighting, which I realize is needed for this to work technically, I’m rather glad there’s at least some change of expression on the models’ faces as one rotates through the photos. otherwise the women would look even more robotic, and more like a consumer durable, than they already do.
It appears no one has commented that multiple images are available for each of the models; at least one I saw had a couple dozen images to choose from. I guess because of the limitations of the process, they were all roughly the same pose, however, with just small variations in hairdo and itsy-bitsy costume. While I don’t quite understand wherer the OP was coming from, and the women certainly seem, er, fit, I find the technique weird and off-putting.
That said, I could see some enterprising conceptual artist using the same process to make montages of, say, people’s grandmothers (fully clothed, please).
Yeah, I wished that I had though of some way of telling him this. Sort of like saying that Santa isn’t real or something.
I can only guess that the OP has lived a pretty sheltered life if he’s never been exposed to a “backstage” where people put on and take off their performance face.
Hell, I used to have the sales assistants practice smiling before they’d pick up the phones. Do you really think people are that bubbly at 8:00 am?
That may be somewhat true, but “you cannot tell at an instinctive level until you se e them form” isn’t quite right.You can test your fake smile skills here. Fake and real smiles are evident in still photos, and you don’t have to watch the process unfolding. Some people are much better than others in spotting them.
I wouldn’t have considered myself good at this, but I got 16 out of 20 by looking at the eyes. The explanation at the end provided more detail, but clearly the people whose eyes didn’t change at all were faking it.
Better yet. go out at closing time and sit on the hood of your car.. then refuse to leave when the bouncer tell you too..
Then you and I can have a conversation about how Cherry (who’s always on deck) was giving you the eye. and wants to meet up at waffle house for a bite..
Actually, faking a smile is something humans are amazingly good at spotting and there are several examples online of comparisons. There are certain facial muscles, especially around the cheeks and eyes that can’t be controlled, hardly at all, voluntarily.
Check these comparisons out; go ahead and guess which one is real (ignoring any captions that might be present). I think you’ll find how incredibly easy they are to spot.
Then after, go around your place and look at any posed family portraits, senior photos, wedding pictures or porn you might happen to have around you, and you’ll see the fake smiles forever:
I’m actually having difficulty with #4. Is the one on the right the real one? I keep going back and forth on that one.
Actually, I got 20/20 on this:
But one thing is that if you ain’t looking out for a fake smile you are much less likely to notice - I don’t doubt I could catch almost all fake smiles were I actually spending my time looking for them (and if I were I would of course be totally cutting down on the other stuff I do. Similar logic applies to things like lies btw; I reckon I can catch liars if I’m LOOKING for them really fooking hard above anything else, but in normal conversation I may as well flip a coin). Honestly, seeing the thing formed makes a big difference, at least for me.
(p.s. kudos for #5
You’re lion.
But in case you’re not, the real smile is on the left, tiger.
wtf? why? it’s 99% the one on the left, and I only allow the 1% in case I am somehow wrong.
Like I said, I was going back-and-forth on that one. Originally, I thought it was the one on the left, then I thought the one on the left was trying too hard. To me, they both look equally natural, with the one on the right being kind of a moment before the full smile is formed. (The other ones are all left side, too, right? If not, then I really suck at this.)
Shit, this is not what I thought I was linking to. I just googled this and assumed it was the still photograph version of the same test I saw somewhere before. Ugh. My post above makes no sense with the link I gave.
Well, I got 16/20 on that test, so I guess I’m not that bad.
Or perhaps Dopers like to think everyone else is stupid. Why in the world do you guys think he doesn’t know this is normal? The fact remains that it’s unprofessional and makes it look like shit. The entire point of a 360 is that you’re supposed be capturing a single moment in time. They totally fucked that up, and you get a glimpse of what most people know probably happens but never get to see.
And I blame everyone involved. I could see not blaming the model if it were slightly different, but she completely drops the smile when she’s facing away. And, yes, while that’s understandable that you couldn’t keep it up forever, why in the world didn’t the photographer or director notice? And sure as hell hope this is just what the editor had to work with.
I mean, the body is so perfectly matched up, and yet the face is so far off. It’s weird. And it does break the suspension of disbelief that models are supposed to be happy to do their work.
Do you respond to people saying an actor lost character as being stupid not to know how hard acting is?