Thursday, February 11, 2016

Levitation of the TV Images in Grand Central

Photo date: February 5, 2016. Photographer: Mark Mahin.

The unaltered photo below was taken in Grand Central Terminal in New York.  We see the strange phenomenon I call the light metamorphosis, in which light rises up from its source, often bending in strange ways. In this example we see what I have shown many times occurring with my own home TV set: the levitation of a TV image. At the center of the photo, we see two image rectangles rising up above the TV screens where they originated (there were only 3 TV screens in this part of the station).   This is the same effect I have photographed 15 times occurring on my own home TV, as shown in this series of posts. 

levitation
See here for other examples of this strange "light metamorphosis" effect in Grand Central Terminal.

The photo was a flash photo with an exposure time of 1/30 of a second, using normal camera settings
(no "Night picture" setting).

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