Obsession
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Actually if you have had experience photographing Vader helmets, it should be clear that the "kid"(?) picture is closer, but they are close enough that the necks lower edges match up (if you were to overlay the necks). Closer images show a larger mask in proportion to the helmet than those taken further away. If there was a distance difference, you would not be able to match both the dome and the mask in terms of size, because one would be proportionally larger than the other. I'll try to show that later on.
Actually, I was wrong. Measuring the facial features, I found the distance across from tip to tip of the cheek bones and the distance from the bottom of the neck to the bottom of the bridge between tusks and from there to the top of the face of the nose, to be exactly the same in both images. So the distance to the helmet is the same. However, since the dome is not straight on the real helmet and it is on the SL, changing the angle, I submit this renders the overlay an invalid comparison.
[QUOTEAnd yet the shape of the edge, even the details on the edge, match what we see on the original when seen in a straight on front view. So how could the corner be more square on the SL if there were no difference in detail? If it is square, then surely the details or shape of that edge seen straight-on should be different? It isn't. Yes, even if the shape of the edge is the same, the whole flaring could be angled outward or inward from the face, but the corner itself to be more rounded would have to then have a totally different edge profile. That corner looks rounder onscreen because of the tilt of the helmet, probably because of the type of lens used (they shot across the table and wanted a tight shot so they would have to use a medium-telephoto).
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It could be the lighting difference, but the I can see an area at the very bottom, front of the left skirt (Vader's right) that I can't see on the SL, which makes the original look more tapered and rounded compared to the SL looking more square.
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