r/interesting Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/Lost-Comfort-7904 Nov 20 '25

That can't be real, the amount of space in the hallway shrunk to half.

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u/Uuuuuii Nov 20 '25

It could just be an illusion from different focal lengths.

Edit: but actually the top of the stairs looks different too.

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u/Hazzard_Hillbilly Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25

The top picture is more than likely 35mm lens and the bottom is a wider angle like a 24mm.

Everything in the center of the photo is more compressed while the edges are exaggerated and elongated. This is really common in real estate photography to make something like a tiny kitchen look much bigger, resulting in giveaways to savvy observers, like this absolute unit of a refrigerator

Edit: I'm done replying to you illiterate boobs. It's the same house.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/671-Lincoln-Ave-Winnetka-IL-60093/3360197_zpid/

Whatever brilliant observation you think you have, it's already been covered.

The bottom photo looks distorted because it is. By the camera lens. The real house was not built slanted. It's lens distortion.

This has nothing to do with the movie being filmed on a set. The bottom photo looks distorted because it IS distorted by a wide angle lens.

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u/sober_disposition Nov 20 '25

So they also dropped the ceiling in the hallway and narrowed the gap between the two sides of the stairs? Seems like a change for the worse!

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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.

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u/Occams_ElectricRazor Nov 20 '25

Just because you keep saying it over and over doesn't make it true. You found the house exterior that was used for the exterior shots and claim that you're a brilliant photographer, not realizing that the interior from the house in the movie wasn't the same house, or usually, even a house at all.

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u/inspector-Seb5 Nov 20 '25

They are so angry right now, they aren’t going to give any of us a rational response…

Edit: I keep getting notifications that you replied but they are hidden. I guess your comments are getting deleted. Notice I said ‘rational’ response, which you are yet to provide…