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This is the back of a commercial building on the edge of an old residential neighborhood. It almost seemed to glow like a radiator as the went down.
2019 oct 12
abstract optical materialism macropaintograph with household materials
Camera: Pentax K-50 16 Mpixel Digital SLR + Carl Zeiss Jenna 2.8/ 50mm via extension tube
50mm on an extension tube. Small hairs on the blade make for excellent scaffolding for the dew. Also, this morning there was frost so there was more dew stuck on everything than usual once it melted.
Unlike many folks who like to shoot drops I prefer to find mine "in the wild" so that means many wet kneed mornings.
Humps or indentations? It depends what your brain wants to see.
If you image the light source is located in the lower left corner, then you see square shaped basins. However, if you imagine the light would be comming from the upper right direction, then you will see pyramidal humps instead of "basins".
Sunrise, also called sunup in some American English dialects, is the time at which the first part of the Sun appears above the horizon in the east. Because the bending of sunlight causes the sun to be seen while it is still below the horizon, both sunrise and sunset are daily optical illusions.
I took this Photograph in Hammonton, (Atlantic County), NJ
I titled this Optical Illusion because this image can show up in two different ways. In one view, the red lines appear to be set into the large sphere as if one were scooping out ice cream from a tin or perhaps a mine that has dug deep into the Earth's surface. In the second view, and the way the actual photo was set up., the red lines are really light reflecting through the large sphere and highlighting the top of the smaller red sphere in the front. I didn't notice this effect until I had been working on post processing for awhile. It's just a nice bonus, two images for the price of one.
First upload from a cracking trip to wales and the bomb store with Tim, Komeg, Tei and Phil.
Thanks to Phil, for modeling for this one, whilst we blasted the place with lasers and smoke.
Lens capped double exposure, using a Cwb and raw conversion in camera.
No Photoshop.
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Here's an optical illusion for you.
While it might be fairly obvious to most people that the streaky white things in the lower portion of this photo are small blobs of foam lazily flowing downstream and captured with a 3 second expose, it might not be too obvious in which direction the river is flowing.
What do you think? Is this river (Jubilee Creek (of course)) flowing from left-to-right in this photograph, or from right-to-left?
I'm guessing that most of you will have guessed... left-to-right... am I right?
Despite the fact that I took this photo and KNOW that the creek is flowing right-to-left, I would also have guessed the other direction.
I suspect that this may have something to do with the fact that most people in the western world read from left-to-right and top-to-bottom? I can't think of any other reason for this optical illusion. Can you?
If you stare at this flower for long enough it starts to play tricks on your eyes. Looks a little like one of those images where you pull the zoom back as it was taken.
Second of two photos -- the other partly overlaps this one. Both are in the album "Utah".
A crust formed atop the sand, presumably from being wet, then the wind broke through in places and excavated the sand. To my eye, this is a persistent optical illusion. The deeper orange areas can be seen either as depressions (the correct view) or as low mounds, which makes it hard to make sense of the image. This was close to a steep bank, and the light is mostly coming from the left.
Weirdly, at least to my eye, it's easier to see the correct view in the thumbnail than when expanded. And it's easier to get the correct view in the other photo.
So I found another optical illusion while walking in the forest this morning... but this time (because it's so easy)... I'll let you try to figure it out. :)
There are also 10 bonus points to the first person who can correctly identify the egg-shaped object (with the white spot in the middle) in the lower right-hand corner of this photo. ;)
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I am always on the look-out for visually interesting props, this is obviously a set of fibre optic lights, consists of 6 balls which I arranged in different ways to get a pleasing composition.
The light-guiding principle behind optical fibres was first demonstrated in Victorian times when the total internal reflection principle was used to illuminate streams of water in elaborate public fountains, but modern optical fibres were only developed in the beginning of the 1950's.
An optical fiber is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.
Daniel Colladon and Jacques Babinet first demonstrated the guiding of light by refraction, the principle that makes fiber optics possible, in Paris in the early 1840s.
Now that we are back on Winter time, it is dark very early, the weather's gone bad, I've had plenty of time to think and be creative in the studio once more.
And we NEED light and joy more then ever!
I am enjoying the burst of creativity, I wish you all a day full of light and THANK you for your visit and comments, so appreciated, Magda (*_*)
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Or looking closer behind the magnifying glass.
Dried hydrangea florets arranged behind a bifocal magnifying glass.
The smaller, more powerful lens has brought one of the florets into focus and creates the illusion that this floret is in front of the magnifying glass
A crust formed atop the sand, presumably from being wet, then the wind broke through in places and excavated the sand. To my eye, this is a persistent optical illusion. The deeper orange areas can be seen either as depressions (the correct view) or as low mounds, which makes it hard to make sense of the image. The latter viewpoint is especially prevalent at the right side of the image. This was close to a steep bank, and the light is mostly coming from the left.
Also, it's a cool if ephemeral scene.