It is real and probably would have been fine under Advanced Editing rules, as well.
We currently have this funky mirror sphere in Brisbane. Sadly, I believe it is only here for the duration of the Brisbane Festival. Darn shame because it is rather photogenic.
I cloned out my reflection as well as a couple of other people. Then I selected the background (support structure) and darkened it, which made it look at lot more fake in order to make people scratch their heads and not understand what they're looking at exactly. That's the point of this challenge, right?
Here is what the sphere looks like:
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Interesting. To my eye, the mirrors seem to be refracting at different strengths, indicating to me that this is some sort of digital composite. There is, however, reflected light that seems to be cast pretty uniformly over the mirrors and that seems to be coming from whatever pink light source is close by. While looking on the inside of the mirror (at the boundary of what would be glass and plasic), it looks like the image has a harsh transition, i.e. unnatural. Almost as if the reflected images were overlayed and masked. Final verdict: digitally manufactured.
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I'm going to guess that I got this wrong. I'm interested in seeing how it was done...is it just an illusion?
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