Category Archives: Illusion

Day 254 – Fun with Photoshop: Triple-Play

This was my inspiration for today’s photo.

After dinner tonight I set my tripod up in the backyard and it didn’t take Nina too long to give me an idea. She loves to nose around in these boards for lizards and so I just sat there and waited. I used my flash, with the LumiQuest bounce attachment. My shutter speed was a bit slow, hence the motion-blur in the exposures.  Post production was quite time-consuming, with lots of “Oh, Phooeys” and start-overs, but all-in-all this was a lot of fun!

 

Day 121 – Sunlit tree and another illusion

Taken this evening as the sun was setting. The dancing light on the branches really caught my eye. Black and white seemed the best treatment of this photo.

I shot the photo below through our glass front door looking southeast. I used a very large aperture and focused on the far horizon. Those dark lines are not shadows. They are the bars of our stair railing. And yet . . . look closely. You can see right through them. The effect is even more noticeable if you click on the photo to see the larger image. If there is someone who can explain this illusion to me, I’d really appreciate it. Does it have to do with bending light?

Day 120 – Wine glass illusions

I’d set these two wine glasses on the counter after taking them out of the dishwasher and kind of forgot about them.  I worked on printing most of the day so hadn’t given much thought to my photo of the day. I’d been snapping some photos of the kitties (more shallow depth of field stuff) and happened do walk by the two glasses on the counter. I snapped a quick photo (I love shiny glass) and then noticed something interesting. I could see the second glass through the first one.  Well, one thing led to another   . . .

There are all kinds of optical illusions happening in the various planes of glass.