• itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Rainbows always form a circle around the sun’s position, unless we suddenly gained a couple of new suns this is obviously edited

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      The snopes article mentions an exception to that - if there’s something reflective like a lake, it can act as a second source. I’d never heard about that, pretty neat!

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      Or someone shot the photo through polarised glass, I’ve seen that kind of effect before

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        Everything else looks normal though. Also polarized glass doesn’t make these effects, although polarization might be part of the effect those wacky glasses use.

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          On its own no it doesn’t, however some camera lenses have a polarised lens filter and the combination of the two can cause a spectral moiré effect

          Though tbh I reckon what you alluded to is even more likely, someone put some of those glasses over their phone camera

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      My first thought was there might be a big mirror Ike a glass building or something behind the camera to cause the extra rainbows but photoshop makes the most sense.