• Bristlecone
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    20 days ago

    That black and white picture looks fake as fuck hahahah

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      20 days ago

      12th century cameras weren’t very good. Too many pixels, Terrible noise reduction and lousy tonal gradation due to compression.

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      It’s a black and white picture of a miniature model of the city, so yes, fake. I don’t think we actually have any pictures of the skyline, so it’s mostly guesswork.

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      20 days ago

      It’s probably an artist of the day’s rendering

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      19 days ago

      I was gonna say how it actually looks kind of like early b&w photography. It do be lookin like a claymation model tho.

      Tbh I think it’s a really good piece of art

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      Yeah, what I expected happened was that the b/w pic was from the early days of photography (1850’s) and that the most of the towers were ruined during The World Wars.

      Though reading on the topic of the towers, it sounds like the populations of towers has declined much more gradually since the 13th century ish. Says to me the vast majority should have been knocked down by the time photography emerged.

      Probably means the photo is fake or (as another commenter suggested) is a photo of a clay model of how the towers were described.