Thread: non reflecting mirror?

Tweet

Ok, my mind isn't up to snuff today but, just had a thought. Has anyone done a non reflecting mirror? Here is my thought, please let me know what you think. Start with an old frame or make one. Then hang it where you want it, stand in front of it and take a picture of what is in front of the mirror as you will have it that night. Go and develope/ unload/ enlarge/ and reverse the photo. Then place it in the mirror with piece of glass in front of it. So now you have a reflected image of the room but, if anyone walks in front of the mirror they will not show up? Seems like a low budget idea that might work. What do you guys think?

that may come out as looking more like a picture and frame as you won't have the 3-d aspect of the reflection moving as your angle toward the mirror changes.

It seems like it would be easy to test out tho and would be a cool prop! A non refelcting mirror would be way creepy
If there is a way to do it I think I'll make one too.

That and I was thinking that you wouldn't have that silver look that mirrors tend to have. I don't have a digital camera to pull it off right away. Was wondering if anyone else had tried something like it?

Too strange, I was just thinking last night about how to do this! I had the same idea you did. If you try one, be sure to let the rest of us know how the end result looks. I'd really like to have one of these for a vampire.

This sounds like a great idea. Here's a thought I had on this. If you can enlarge the image to twice the size as the frame and place it about a foot behind the glass, it might give that 3D look as people walk by it. It is essentially like the moving bookcase busts in Disney's HM. The image would appear to shift as fast as the person walking by the frame.

Eric

Pesky me would put my cell phone light on it and figure out its not real so lighting could be an issue.

ok, you would be the same kid who lit up my bottomless pit with a flashlight and screamed, "It's only mirrors". lol

We did this at our vampire haunt last year with pretty good effect. We had a station set up with vampire hunting stuff and a posted list of how to identify vampires, of course with one of the ways being no reflection. We had a framed piece of window glass hanging behind a shelf with a few bottles of holy water and such and cut a hole in the wall. We set up and exact mirror of the shelf and bottles behind glass, and since it was dark, it looked pretty convincing. people stopped and stared at it for quite a while.

Originally Posted by Porkchop Express

We did this at our vampire haunt last year with pretty good effect. We had a station set up with vampire hunting stuff and a posted list of how to identify vampires, of course with one of the ways being no reflection. We had a framed piece of window glass hanging behind a shelf with a few bottles of holy water and such and cut a hole in the wall. We set up and exact mirror of the shelf and bottles behind glass, and since it was dark, it looked pretty convincing. people stopped and stared at it for quite a while.

Would love to see pictures if you have any Sounds like it would work well.

This idea sounds really neat!