The woman was on a shopping trip with her two-year-old grandson when the pair walked into the mirror aisle. But after looking back on snaps of her day, she was terrified
It can be quite sweet taking photos of your little ones growing in their own unique way. Whether it be a day at the park or even their reaction to produce at the supermarket.
Now one woman decided to commemorate the moment while on a shop with her two-year-old grandson and she didn’t expect to react in the way she did. In a post on Reddit, shared in the optical illusions forum, it showed a reflection of the young boy sitting in the trolley while taking a sip out of his water – but that’s what got really confusing for people online.
The caption read: “Mum took my son to the store and took a pic in the mirror. The picture does not match reality.”
Below the image, the words read: “Mu mum took my two-year-old son to the store on Thursday and walked into the mirror aisle.
“As she walked with him, my son was playfully messing with his water cup so she decided to take multiple photos of him in the mirror.
“As it was with an iPhone, 2 of the 3 photos were ‘live’ photos and show my son thrashing the cup around and speaking gibberish.”
The mum later revealed how her parent went to review the picture and was gobsmacked.
She added: “One of the photos, however, was not live and when my mum reviewed it, she noticed my son’s reflection did not match his exact pose and cup positioning in reality.
“Is this just a glitch in timing of the photo or am I making this out to be more than it is? She is freaked out about it.”
In the post, which racked up 3,700 upvotes, many people chimed in with their thoughts.
One said: “He is a wizard.” Another joked: “It’s just that the boy in the mirror is thirstier than your son.”
A third posted: “Oh dang. That freaked me out a bit. Must be a rolling shutter thing.”
Others put it down to the iPhone’s live function. A person explained: “Yeah when you take a picture on iOS like that, it doesn’t take just one picture, it takes several frames from before.
“And after you hit the shutter button, splits those into subframes like foreground, subject, and background then automatically merges them together into the final franken-image which combines the best parts of each frame.
“So probably something like he moved the cup very fast as the photo was taken so the clearest image for the mirror area without cup movement motion blur was before it began moving and was on his mouth while the clearest foreground subframe of the actual kid was after the movement.
“The image processing doesn’t realise that’s a mirror image of the kid in the foreground and should match up with him it just looks for quality. Or you captured an image of his djinn companion.”
