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“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” - Dorothea Lange
As stated in the quote above, photography has taught me to see, where my way of seeing the world is kind of split into two parts: one "eye" perceives the world as a whole, where the other one is my photographic eye which thinks in motifs and pictures. These two perceptions are not the same (at least for me) since beautiful things don’t necessarily look beautiful in a picture because there are so many factors which can make a picture less attractive. Conversely, you can use so many techniques like changing the overall composition, the depth of field, the dynamic range, the colors etc. to make a picture interesting.
So this is a first attempt to this idea, where I just quickly made a close-up of my eyes. Since the weather wasn't really good I was too lazy to go outside and thus I placed my camera at the windowsill and took a picture with my macro using a remote control. Hope you like it!
Your Colour Perception is Liz West’s largest site-specific installation to date, incorporating all 5000 square feet of Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces Federation House fourth floor in Manchester. West will react to the architectural space using colour and light to create vast immersive installation art. This presentation of new work was open for the weekend 31st January and 1st February between, intentionally utilising the darkness outside to raise the strength of the illumination and colouration in the work. Using the enormous space to install a light work in the darkest Winter months will allow the colour to bleed with more saturation than if displayed any other time of the year.
I’m often asked about the world that insects can see when people enjoy my UV fluorescence images, often confusing two very different things: UV reflectance and UV fluorescence. This post will hopefully demystify that, with a simple Shasta Daisy!
On the left, we see the visible-light image of the flower. Pretty ordinary! It’s really just here for reference to the images in the center and right. The central image is UV reflectance, and the right image is UV fluorescence. You can see why I do a lot more UV fluorescence work!
UV Reflectance is the direct observation of ultraviolet light. This requires some tricky hardware, you need:
- A camera modified for full spectrum photography (shot with a converted Lumix GX85)
- A bright source of UV light
- A lens that has very good ultraviolet transmission properties
- A VERY good “UV Black” filter that allows for the transmission of ultraviolet light but zero visible or infrared light.
In contrast, for Ultraviolet fluorescence photography, you need:
- A pure ultraviolet light source
UV Reflectance can reveal hidden patterns in flowers that insects are able to perceive along with visible light. They don’t see UV light exclusively, but their vision extends into this spectrum and some flowers take advantage of that. Daisies do not. Sunflowers, on the other hand? Solidly yellow petals to our eyes will reveal a dark bullseye pattern in the ultraviolet spectrum: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_9769-UV.jpg . Marsh Marigolds have a slightly more complex pattern ( www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/34783610615/ , which also shows visible and infrared versions). Not all flowers use this technique of reflecting back UV light to guide insects towards them, and while it is fun to explore the patterns it doesn’t have the same drama and colour as UV fluorescence.
Directly observing UV light is difficult, but UV fluorescence is a much easier subject to tackle. You use your regular camera to collect regular light, albeit in a darkened room. You just need a good pure UV light source that doesn't leak into the visible spectrum which would contaminate the results. When ultraviolet light hits the flower, some of that light excites electrons in the atoms of the flower. Those electrons rise to a higher orbit but very quickly decay back down, and in the process of doing so release energy in the form of… visible light! UV light goes in, visible light in much smaller quantities come out. You camera captures this visible light.
This is “unnatural” in the sense that there is no way to observe this in nature – the sun clearly emits visible and infrared light in far more abundance than ultraviolet light. UV fluorescence is not what insects can see, it’s what no living thing could see without the aid of the inventions of mankind. It’s “real”, but also hidden from reality. And on the other side, there is something elegant about the mostly-black flower that we know to be white to our own perceptions. The world beyond our own reality is worth exploring.
Can you tell I’m going through my shot list for my upcoming book?? This kind of information will be found within the pages of Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet, currently being funded on Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/ - it would be great to have your support for the project and also get a copy when it’s out in December!
…. Oh hey, you’re still here? You actually wanted to know MORE about UV reflectance? Sure, here we go.
The lenses with the cheapest cost and best transmission properties can be found on eBay from the seller “igoriginal”: www.ebay.com/itm//273878542781 .
The filters included with that lens are decent, but if you want the very best at cancelling out visible AND infrared light, you need a two filter combo from maxmax.com:
XNite 330C: www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15065-xnite33052c-x-nite-3...
XNite BP1: h www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15072-xnitebp152-x-nite-ba...
Those links are for 52mm filters, which would fit on the above-mentioned lens. You’d still need a camera converted to full-spectrum photography, and one of the biggest outfits for that is LifePixel: www.lifepixel.com/?ar=3
Down the rabbit hole you go. :)
Limitations of perception are everywhere ... Sometimes they arise, sometimes-no! I saw the full picture in this place, then the constraint of THIS system was forced to flash it like that! Soon it will be all! Influence the observation!
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Which quote has more significance to this image?
This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight
-Florence & The Machine
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leafs a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
-Robert Frost
I decided to try editing this image with paint.
This is the start of a possible series that will explore manual photo editing. Please do not mistake this for a full painting. It's goal is to make the viewer question what it is and what it is not.
« La réalité est une chose mystérieuse et fluctuante, car la perception que nous en avons ne reste jamais la même. » de Joe Tan
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Highest position: 15 on Sunday, November 18, 2012
We perceive the world as we see it. Our perception is based on what we see and what we want to see.
The reality is, if you imagine positive, you’ll end up in having a positive image of your surroundings.
Sunsets have always been part of my inspiration, it always attracts my attention, that brings me close to the nature.
(Clifton Beach, Karachi - Pakistan)
I found a captioned picture on Facebook with similar text.
I modified it to fit me specifically.
Please feel free to modify this by adding your own picture and name if it fits your self perception as well.
I have been thinking about how we look at things that aren't real. I'm talking about spaceships, cars and photoediting.
I mean, we know how a car is supposed to look like. We see them every day, real cars, our brains are tuned to them in terms of how they look and move around us. Spaceships are a different thing, we're not that used to seeing them around. Does that make a difference when making images with a scale model? Is a spaceship an easier sell than a car?
I made an experiment with the Maserati Boomerang model I've been building during the past couple of months.
"Depth Perception:" Aldous Huxley has stated, "There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception." Looking into this scene, it became difficult for me to tell the depth of the water; some of the submerged rocks were visible below the surface, but the reflections from the trees and rocks above began to play tricks on my eyes. I did end up crossing the creek and found the deepness varied with the undulating terrain below.
Cézanne Le Rocher Rouge. Photographie prise au Carrière de Bibemus à Aix en Provence à l'endroit même où le peintre a réalisé son paysage. Ce montage pose des questions de perception; oppose et lie photographie et peinture... queendotkoong.tumblr.com/post/31838316699/en-ce-moment-si...
Made from a constructive detail of the Beckerbridge viaduct over the river Chemnitz (Germany).
I wish all of you a very nice weekend.
Nikon D7200; Tamron SP AF 70-300 mm f/4,0-5,6 Di VC USD
120 mm; f/13; 2.5 s; ISO 200
Another shot from the lake at Earlswood Common. The way the light has fallen on these shrubs - and the shadows they've created - has left me thinking of something else entirely...
The other two pictures are just for fun but you can click through if you wish
schmocus : mine i like : common
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“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as it is —infinite”—William Blake
Made for Y SIN EMBARGO #26: UROBORUS ISSUE
Human ability for adaptation as cause and consequence. Do we change our environment to give solutions or do we change just because we’re able to adapt? Technology as an instrument for self-saturation. How much are we able to absorb? Seduction of a world that, through its advantages, drags us towards its logic? The “saturation”, defined as a situation in which solutions have turned into problems, the probable is less and less realized, and the improbable happens more and more.
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La capacidad de adaptación humana como causa y consecuencia. ¿Cambiamos el entorno para dar soluciones o cambiamos sólo porque somos capaces de adaptarnos? La tecnología como instrumento para la auto-saturación. ¿Hasta dónde somos capaces de absorber? ¿Seducción de un mundo que a causa de sus ventajas nos arrastra hacia su lógica? La “saturación”; definida como una situación en la cual las soluciones se han transformado en problemas, lo probable se realiza cada vez menos, y lo improbable sucede más y más.
Elle écrivait les rêves qu'elle allait bientôt faire. C'était sa manière de s'arracher au temps présent.
Una bimba raccoglie fiori per la mamma nel parco di Villa Bruno a San Giorgio.
Ci vediamo la prossima settimana, godetevi la primavera io vado a Procida per qualche giorno ,
Good bay, see you next week.
Perceptions On Dreams.
Corws Dawnsio angylion rhyfeddol penillion nodedig deffro,
Situation catatonique scènes souterraines de LSD de la musique électronique microgrammes tête flipper,
κρέμονται κουρτίνες οροφής αναβοσβήνει καρδιά απίστευτα διαστάσεις οξύ κρανία εκδηλώνεται,
concepções instantâneos simpatias unseeded sensíveis deliciosas vistas sentimentos especiais,
Atem häufige Blitze Schatten Polygone Augenlider orientalischem Dankbarkeit Erhaben entdeckt,
יסמין החיננית נצח שירה עצום מתחת שמשות תכלת הרים מפהקים מילות חיבת שלום,
бушует ярость огня бросая ярость охватывает стойких бляшки пиршества речей облачным фантазии заражает,
particule stralucitoare noapte rătăcire în percepțiile plângând vegetație anihilarea călătorie binevoitor mormânt mai departe,
巨大な朝のモンスターアラームを湧き新興広大な庭園の金巨大な岩黄色ハーブ暗い迷路.
Steve.D.Hammond.
A little space-out effects video. Sometimes our minds end up going to the Moon and reality distorts around us.
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"Welcome To Quarkstar" by Loveshadow featuring Pilot J Sorn, Igoto Wikes, The Citizens of Quarkstar.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear as at is - infinite.
William Blake ( 1757-1827)
English poet
This little bird came flying through my rainbow.
About:
Another rainbow shot from the other day. The seagulls were flying around my head, so I wanted to catch one of them flying through the rainbow. This one is too far away, but it was the only one that did fly through the rainbow.... so what can you do... :))
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#5063 - 2021 Day 314: After an extremely stimulating chat this morning with Caroline, and in which I cited this book, I thought I'd find an interesting and alternative way to see the cover. It is called "Perception and Imaging - Photography as a Way of Seeing" by John Suler and Richard D. Zakia.
We are apt to see things for how we know them as objects, what they're called and how we use them. And so we photograph 'things' and places. In my courses we aim to take away labels and to see in the raw, as it were, as a child might see, in terms of visual elements. And what I saw when examining the book from different angles was a mix of colours and lines, with white shapes we would understand as words.
The image on the cover might still be discernible and the words readable, but an oblique viewpoint gives a new perspective and by no means the only one. What have you looked at obliquely today?