If l have a picture of a shadow, and spesific time when the photographer pick it, can we find location of it?

Answer 1

If you know the time zone, then yes, you can find the location.

Answer 2

Possibly, if you had both the time AND date, to within a few hundred miles, not the exact location, unless the shadow was cast onto a grid with precise sized squares on it, and the height of the person casting the shadow was known, or if they have a precise sized measuring standard on a grid. They'd need lots of exact info to find the location using just a shadow.

Answer 3

In theory yes, you would have to know which direction is North however. Otherwise you could either be in the Northern or Southern Hemisphere. As the sun would cast identical shadows.

You would need extremely measurements however, and times and dates down to a fine degree.

And then, you would have to find someone to sum through all the trigonometry and calculations to work it out for you, so good luck with that!

Answer 4

Maybe. If you knew the length and direction of the shadow, the height of the thing casting the shadow, and the ground was perfectly flat and level, then you could find the one possible spot on Earth where it was taken.

Answer 5

If conditions were perfect, flat ground is one condition, then the length of the shadow should tell you the line of latitude you were on at the certain time. But this would take so long to work out that it would be pointless

Answer 6

If you have a device to find algorithm of shadows and it was a known place then yes.

Answer 7

Yep! You can, but I always know exactly where my shadow is. I make sure he never leaves my side. I hang on to him tighter than I hang on to my wallet!