Not only is Batman choosing a rather odd position to brood from, the floor is, well, phoned in. The reflections would be correct only if the floor were below the buildings opposite.
Thanks to Shortee for this one.
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Batman Fascinated By Window Frame
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I'm sorry, mate, i just don't get this one. i've had lots of laughs with the other entries, thou. Please, keep posting! ^^
This one took me a while, but I finally get it:
1. He's clearly staring at the vertical window frame, instead of out the window;
2. He seems to be looking down on the city from above - meaning there shouldn't be any reflections on the floor (maybe the ceiling?)
Thanks for making me laugh every time a new post comes in. :)
Great idea for a blog. As a photographer and retoucher myself, I can appreciate the goofs. Knowing that sloppy work could end up here, I now have an even greater incentive to be careful!
Excellent blog. Thanks for the laughs!
Not only the reflections are wrong, the entire Perspective doesn't work. If you follow the creases between the floor tiles, you can find the horizont position of the foreground picture. It's somewhere above Batman's shoulder. But the horizon of the city background is much higher. So it's looking like Batman is glued perfectly upright onto a sloping floor and hanging above the city. Very weird. But then the reflections don't make more sense, either... :)
Tsk Tsk Tsk, the cost of outsourcing... :P
The best part about all the f-ups is how pretentiously serious the piece seems to take itself - all dark, shiny and austere. LOL!
...or maybe its subliminally meant to be funny!
Haha :) Batman have very interesting view on window frame :) maybe some depression?
Maybe the entire building is in fact collapsing forward and our hero, The Batman, has slid along the very shiny (and clearly unsafe for work) floor, thereby slamming bodily into the vertical bar of the frame, leaving him unconscious as the building falls over on it way to his ultimate doom? If THAT's the case, then this captures this pivotal moment perfectly.
And the line between amateur and professional gets a bit more blurred.
// Anonymous said:
// "...or maybe its subliminally meant to be funny!"
Why so serious?!
-the joker
never saw things that way
Well, bats are blind. Maybe he doesn't know what he's looking at.
1. its no window, its a cunningly disguised paneling that looks like a window.
2. the reflection is correct if the floor were perfectly next to the wall and the depth of field of the camera were Zero. But in this case, given the parallel lines on the floor vanishing toward the horizon of the image and the long depth of field of the photo, it can only mean, the paneling was cunningly disguised as a fading image painted on the floor in a perfect inversion of the reflection to allow for depth of field warping. Phew!
3. Batman is starring at a minuscule error on the paneling. Probably getting ready to toss out the print because of bad CMYK plates lining improperly.
@ zestypete: the cape
If he were unconcious, flat against the window while the building is collapsing forward, his cape would have married the form of his backside instead of falling down straight, unless it's made of cardboard. Hey,maybe it's a life-size Batman dummy resting against the window of the collapsing building?
he's resting his head on the pane. probably depressed. maybe thinking about jumping. so long guy.
You're all wrong! The floor is just designed with a 30 degree pitch and is actually looking down on the city! Duh!...=P
Can't see his eyes and at that altitude his viewing angle is extremely large. You're correct on the floor reflection though.
"hey try coming up with something original. I saw this post earlier on another blog. BTW if you really look close he is looking slightly to the left even though he is right in front of the upright.I would guess he could see past it. besides you f'n nerds need to get a life and stop wankin' off to batman pics and get a girlfriend."
we need girlfriends and you need a sense of humor.
btw, loved zestypete's post!
Greatest photoshop disaster... Ever =))
You are all wrong. It is the ceiling. Bats hang upside down. Now why the city is upside down too is a more difficult question.
That's Azarael!!! And that buildings are all fake!!! It's inside the Batcave
It's a trick of the Bat-Mite. He's in a parallel universe, and it uses non euclidean geometry to get that reflection. The window mullion is clearly some sort of deviant creature that at the drop of a hat would engulf the city were he not prepared for it, and holding it at a stalemate.
Good call for the director to throw out the Bat-Mite card though for this movie, it's about time someone recognized his role in batman's career.
They should have made the reflection in the floor of the clouds, and then have the bat signal visible. Now that would be awesome.
jonas wrote:
"They should have made the reflection in the floor of the clouds, and then have the bat signal visible. Now that would be awesome."
That would actually be pretty cool.
the marble floor is obviously at a 45 degree slant facing the cityscape... DUHHH!!!
i think this is the funniest so far.. great idea for a blog..
Stealing some ideas form an anonymous source:
Those aren't windows, but backlit panels right next to the floor. The lines are not the lines of square tiles, but trendy trapeze shaped ones, thus allowing the reflection to be correct.
The reasoning for his position is that this is the toilet in a trendy bar (which likes open planning) that bruce was at when he got called away. He just changed in a cubical situated behind the camera, but then realised he needed a wiz, so thought he make use of the facilities and blind himself a little with the bright lights from the walls to get more into the bat persona.
Well it is more dramatic to have the all the window frames appear more like a cage or bars.
Some of us have the ability to move our eyes in different directions without moving our entire head. This is not a goof at all. You're really scrounging for content, eh?
This is clearly Batman's practice brooding room, where he broods in front of a painting of the city.
Wow an unrealistic movie poster!!
Does it look cool? Yes
Does it make you want to see the movie? Yes
Job done.
Any good designer is willing to bend the laws of physics to make something look cooler. If you guys had it your way he would have been standing on a completely black floor. And then what do you know his entire lower body would have melted into it....now that would have been great design.
The only problem i have with this image is his shitty placement. I agree move him so that he is actually looking out the window not at the frame.
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