watchit buster - you're not THAT much younger than me.
I wondered about flash-shadow, but the "dual cords" appear about as far apart when the background is Brian's pants AND when the background is whatever the backdrop is behind the two of you. The distance to the background (and thus the location of the shadow) is significantly different in the two places, so the distance between image and shadow should be different too. It doesn't sound right.
Were you under fluorescent lights? the only other thing I can think of is maybe brian's hand was moving and the cord is seen in two locations under the 60Hz strobe effect of fluorescent lights. But that explanation only really works if the rest of the image (ie the two of you) were stationary on the same timescale; and the rest of the photo (including the bits that are most likely to have perceptible motion on a shutter-click timeframe) seems to be in good focus.
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Date: 2007-08-14 09:26 pm (UTC)watchit buster - you're not THAT much younger than me.
I wondered about flash-shadow, but the "dual cords" appear about as far apart when the background is Brian's pants AND when the background is whatever the backdrop is behind the two of you. The distance to the background (and thus the location of the shadow) is significantly different in the two places, so the distance between image and shadow should be different too. It doesn't sound right.
Were you under fluorescent lights? the only other thing I can think of is maybe brian's hand was moving and the cord is seen in two locations under the 60Hz strobe effect of fluorescent lights. But that explanation only really works if the rest of the image (ie the two of you) were stationary on the same timescale; and the rest of the photo (including the bits that are most likely to have perceptible motion on a shutter-click timeframe) seems to be in good focus.
it is a puzzlement.