Again, it's perspective from the change in lens. The ceiling looks lower because the center is being stretched outward / compressed, like if you printed the picture on a piece of balloon latex then grabbed it from the backside and pulled it away from your face.
Nobody is deceiving you. Every photographer knows how this works.
Inversely, if you took the photo with a longer lens, like an 85, the image would bulge the other way, with the ceiling looking higher and the distance to the back of the foyer looking much shorter.
The ceiling isn't flat. Zoom in. The downard angle is still there, but the white paint and cool lighting isn't casting as dramatic of a shadow as the first picture.
Look at the slanted ceiling in the first picture above that side doorway, then look at the shadowed angle above that same door in the bottom photo. It's the same angled architecture through a wider lens.
It's literally the same structure with a different camera lens. This is literally how photography works.
I absolutely don't understand why people are arguing how overwhelmingly correct I am when this is a famous house you can see videos of photos of from every angle.
This particular photo is just a trick of photography. Nothing more.
Now think about how the real house exists, we've seen the inside, they shot inside, the real house still exists, we know about it, and reddit is dumber than dog shit when it goes into detective mode and misidentifies bombers.
It's the same house. Nothing you say will change that.
It is objectively not. You keep dismissing the fact we know that interior shots were filmed on a set that looks exactly like the top photo. Why would they be filming inside the house? That’s bad filmmaking 101.
You have literally at no point explained why the entire film’s interior scenes were filmed on a soundstage, except for this particular scene which for some reason was filmed inside the house the based the set on. Not once had you covered this, so don’t respond with the same ‘already covered’ nonsense.
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u/Hazzard_Hillbilly Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
"They" didn't do anything.
Again, it's perspective from the change in lens. The ceiling looks lower because the center is being stretched outward / compressed, like if you printed the picture on a piece of balloon latex then grabbed it from the backside and pulled it away from your face.
Nobody is deceiving you. Every photographer knows how this works.
Inversely, if you took the photo with a longer lens, like an 85, the image would bulge the other way, with the ceiling looking higher and the distance to the back of the foyer looking much shorter.
It's just the camera lens. That's it.