Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by pandemic_region on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:44AM
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I had an incredible deja-vu feeling on the guys standing around the hoop, so weird.
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Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by mikae1 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:13AM
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> TinEye searched over 69.1 billion images but didn't find any matches for your search image. That's probably because we have yet to crawl any pages where this image appears.
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Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by voidUpdate on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:16AM
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Google's reverse image search (images.google.com, click the little camera) can perform better in many cases, though here it only finds the linked page
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by account42 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:59AM
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Yandex reverse image search can also be useful often, although in this case it just gives you other images of people with basketballs. Curse whoever decided to introduce AI to reverse image search.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by serf on Thursday July 25, 2024 @02:53AM
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I did too, I wonder if this image was included in some other package somewhere?
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by hoyd on Thursday July 25, 2024 @03:32AM
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Reminded me of pointerpointer.com and for some reason new kids on the block.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by lmm on Thursday July 25, 2024 @04:22AM
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It's got that early-'00s digicam look to it. My pictures from the end of high school have a similar vibe, despite having no basketball.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by cpach on Thursday July 25, 2024 @05:17AM
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When I look at the sky and the bricks I get the impression that the photo has “grain”. I wonder if it was actually shot on film.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by layer8 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @09:28AM
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Early digital camera sensors could be quite noisy.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by account42 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:56AM
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Digital camera sensors are still quite noisy, perhaps even more so as sensors have gotten smaller while resolutions have gotten higher (meaning even smaller pixels). We just process all the noise away most of the time.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by layer8 on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:18PM
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Good point. “Visibly noisy” would have been more accurate.
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by jfjdkfnjrhr on Thursday July 25, 2024 @11:27PM
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This is definitely scanned. Digicams quality was terrible at the turn of the century
Re:The secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins
by bityard on Thursday July 25, 2024 @12:38PM
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It's not from a digicam, it's a scan of a photo. The white bar on the left is from a subpar cropping job and is slightly crooked. The resolution (1275x1167) is higher than a typical 3:4 digital image sensor of the day, which would have maxed out at 640x480 in the late '90s to early 2000's, maybe 1024x768 for a really high-spec (expensive and uncommon) camera.
As for the "look", I'm not a photographer but this was likely taken on either a low-end handheld film camera or disposable jobbie, which were absolutely ubiquitous around this time frame because they were so cheap (practically free, until you went to develop them). The picture was taken on an overcast day at dusk, later in the evening. Just dark enough to auto-trigger the insufficient flash which lights up the middle of the image and puts everything in the periphery in a dark shadow.
I do like that the kid with the beer isn't looking at the camera and seems to have missed the point that everyone was supposed to be holding the ball.