Optical Play and Suns I
Over the years I have found many optical images. I call them optical because they play with your eye and demand close attention. In some instances here I have paired them off to make the point more clearly.
Suns is a collection of suns I shot with lenses ranging from 50mm to 2000mm.
Stone balustrade. Photos Nos. 1-5 show the use and importance of negative space—the shape or shapes around solid forms (figure-ground relationship).
This is a photo taken by a student of mine, Gordon Myere, that shows visual ambiguity. It can be seen as looking out through a series of arches, or a picket fence, which it is (figure-ground relationship).
The brick wall is in the background, but its brightness and warm color makes it come to the foreground.
This photo appears to be a series of mounds, but if turned upside down...
When I got this back from the processing lab I knew this wasn't the shot of tire tracks I had shot...
Where you stand is important. This photo and the next (No. 19) are the same subject shot from different positions.
This is a image illustrating how adjacent colors influence each other.
Close-up of windows in previous photo. Would you believe me if I told you the blue of sky in all the windows is actually the same color and tone/lightness, just affected by the surrounding light and dark frames?
This is the same image as previous photo, No 35, but with the building masked out. Surprised? This phenomenon is called simultaneous contrast.
Close-up of textured tabletop. Are the shapes concave or convex? Look away and then back and it might flip on you.
You've probably been taught that yellow is a primary color. But with light, red and green make yellow, as you can see in the small inset of bigger image. In this instance, size matters.