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I reuploaded yesterdays picture but without the texture, and changed today's picture.
Why? Because I'm kinda loving my black and white dark work.
February 7, 2011
© Austin Sullivan 2011
On our double-decker tour bus, the street lights were right above our heads. This shows how close they came to whacking us. From this angle, the light looks like it's nearly as tall as the Empire State Building.
Series emulating the photographic style of Francesca Woodman to show how women are often perceived in society.
You create a set of predefined filters throughout your life. Every moment becomes subject to them. You will place each moment in one category or the other.
Your filters communicate to you the inherent value of an occurring moment. Whatever the value it has will affect your feelings about it. You will experience everything that happens in your life whether it’s career, relationships, finances or leisure in a particular way. This defined viewpoint is your perception.
Everyday this evaluation process will create the positive or negative perceptions you have. Does all of this mean you are an automated robot that only processes data? No.
With your perception comes the ability to make “free will” choices. Those choices then help to create your reality.
As I experimented with different camera settings, this flock of Dunlin unexpected took flight, repositioning themselves along the beach. The combination of a high shutter speed and a high ISO resulted a photograph that looked as if it was created with a different medium.
Location: Connecticut Audubon Center, Milford Point, Milford, Connecticut, United States of America
Series emulating the photographic style of Francesca Woodman to show how women are often perceived in society.
Model: Elise
Hair and Makeup: Elise and Kelsey
Styling: Me
Photo and Post-Processing: Me
these photos were taken in my kitchen in front of a black backdrop, using a garage spotlight with a diffuser and reflector
Aaron Schurger GS
Department of Psychology
In 1957 Craig Mooney, a cognitive psychologist, published “Age in the development of closure ability in children.” He used images similar to the ones above to test the ability of children to perform “perceptual closure”—that is, to form a coherent perceptual impression on the basis of very little visual detail. Images of this type, often referred to as Mooney faces, have become common in cognitive psychology experiments because they offer a means of inducing variable perception with constant visuo-spatial characteristics (the images are very often not perceived as faces if viewed upside down). I have used such images in an experiment I conducted with a “blindsight” patient, to test for signs of face perception without awareness. I used many of Mooney’s original 40 images, but also created a few hundred of my own (with the help of my wife, Corinne Foy). Along the way, I have come to appreciate many of the images as being very pleasant to look at. It is fascinating to notice how little visual information it takes to experience a face (humans have evolved very effective and efficient mechanisms for the perception of faces), and at the same time to notice the variety of other shapes and contours that emerge.