From AFP News Agency.
Millions of photos and videos are shared online every day and there are lots of ways to authenticate them. SunCalc is a free online tool that, when used with geolocation and the date of an image, can give you the approximate time it was shot.
0:29 How to geolocate the precise position of the shadow’s origin
00:49 How to choose and compare clues in Google Street View
01:05 How to use Google Lens to translate text in the image
01:14 How to choose an object with a good shadow
01:34 Getting started with SunCalc
01:40 Set object height
02:08 Adding the date that the image was taken
02:22 Using the shadow to determine the time
02:45 Your turn! Can you guess what time we shot this? Leave your answer in the comments.
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