Can you explain the "Mayan Light Beam" photograph?
Mar 4, 2012 16:51:51 #
Since we have a lot of photo experts around here, some of you can offer your explanations of what may have caused this light beam from the Mayan pyramid:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/02/mayan-light-beam-photo-message-from-gods-or-iphone-glitch/
"When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.
In the first two images, dark clouds loom above the pyramid, but nothing is amiss. However, in the third photo, a powerful beam of light appears to shoot up from the pyramid toward the heavens, and a thunderbolt flashes in the background."
Anybody want to offer an explanation, in addition to the ones in the article?
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/03/02/mayan-light-beam-photo-message-from-gods-or-iphone-glitch/
"When Hector Siliezar visited the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza with his wife and kids in 2009, he snapped three iPhone photos of El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan. A thunderstorm was brewing near the temple, and Siliezar was trying to capture lightning crackling dramatically over the ruins.
In the first two images, dark clouds loom above the pyramid, but nothing is amiss. However, in the third photo, a powerful beam of light appears to shoot up from the pyramid toward the heavens, and a thunderbolt flashes in the background."
Anybody want to offer an explanation, in addition to the ones in the article?
Mar 4, 2012 17:03:59 #
MisterWilson wrote:
Since we have a lot of photo experts around here, ... (show quote)
It doesn't look natural to me. The edges are too crisp with absolutely no diffusion, as would be apparent under the cloudy and wet weather. I think it either is an anomaly of the sensor or an outright fraud done with processing software. That would be really easy to do in most any editing program.
Since the beam doesn't go all the way down to the bottom of the photo, I vote fake.
Mar 4, 2012 17:06:27 #
Per http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2189-mayan-light-beam-photo.html - According to Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used during NASA's Mars missions, it is almost definitely "the result of an iPhone glitch".
Mar 4, 2012 17:19:42 #
MisterWilson wrote:
Since we have a lot of photo experts around here, ... (show quote)
Simply an Alien going home; probably been forewarned.
Mar 4, 2012 19:10:41 #
The gradation in intensity as the beam goes up falls off WAY too fast. Any energy beam of that clarity and intensity would maintain a lot more even light as it climbs skyward. I vote for a masking job in Photoshop.
Mar 4, 2012 19:12:43 #
for my 2 cents.
Fauxtography, Fauxtoshop.
and not even top shelf scam in my humble opinion.
Hell we still can't find a damn big foot, with all the image technology available today, aliens are out of the question.
Fauxtography, Fauxtoshop.
and not even top shelf scam in my humble opinion.
Hell we still can't find a damn big foot, with all the image technology available today, aliens are out of the question.
Mar 4, 2012 19:14:25 #
Mar 4, 2012 19:45:41 #
cgchief wrote:
quote=MisterWilson Since we have a lot of photo e... (show quote)
Men in Black..."Elvis didn't die...He just went home" That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
Mar 4, 2012 20:07:02 #
We have a pyramid here in Vegas that does the same thing every night. They call it Luxor.
We call it conspicuous consumption.
We call it conspicuous consumption.
Mar 4, 2012 20:16:59 #
You're right, the Luxor Pyramid is very similar with the light effect. So, who's the copycat?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=luxor+pyramid&view=detail&id=516682AEBBB1C3D58FBCF54D2F06A51F22DC8D13&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=luxor+pyramid&view=detail&id=516682AEBBB1C3D58FBCF54D2F06A51F22DC8D13&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
Mar 4, 2012 20:20:50 #
MT Shooter wrote:
The gradation in intensity as the beam goes up falls off WAY too fast. Any energy beam of that clarity and intensity would maintain a lot more even light as it climbs skyward. I vote for a masking job in Photoshop.
Me too I say it's photoshopped in
Mar 4, 2012 20:40:00 #
Mar 4, 2012 20:47:51 #
I must make a pilgrimage to Luxor. Beam me up Scotty...after I lose all my worldly goods. Oops, i don't gamble. Just about the only vice I don't have!
The last time I was in Vegas, it was 1972. I walked up to a nearly deserted bus stop. A lady there said "25", I said, "no, 21". Then I realized she was not guessing my age. And no, I didn't.
The last time I was in Vegas, it was 1972. I walked up to a nearly deserted bus stop. A lady there said "25", I said, "no, 21". Then I realized she was not guessing my age. And no, I didn't.
MisterWilson wrote:
You're right, the Luxor Pyramid is very similar with the light effect. So, who's the copycat?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=luxor+pyramid&view=detail&id=516682AEBBB1C3D58FBCF54D2F06A51F22DC8D13&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=luxor+pyramid&view=detail&id=516682AEBBB1C3D58FBCF54D2F06A51F22DC8D13&first=0&FORM=IDFRIR
Mar 4, 2012 21:05:27 #
On second thought .. It is 2012 maybe they are getting the light ready for dec 21st.
Mar 4, 2012 21:53:46 #
photogrl57 wrote:
On second thought .. It is 2012 maybe they are getting the light ready for dec 21st.
Bingo!
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