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[–] Yondoza@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Recently learned this is a double exposure image. They took an exposure in an unlit room for the lightning, then put Tesla in there reading a book and took the second exposure.

[–] MakunaHatata@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This photo is so famous yet I never knew this fact about it. Thanks!

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Someone probably claimed AI, and then someone else was forced to correct them based on Cunningham's Law.

I didn't know it was double exposure, too.

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