Lessons from the Shot: It is All About Perspective by Stanley Leary

 

by Stanley Leary

 
 
 Figure 1
 
 
I learned about this phenomenon from Jay Maisel. Look at this photo, which way does the footprint go…In or out?
 
Figure 2
 
How about this footprint? Is it in or out?
 
Actually they are the same photo, just flipped. Your eye expects patterns a certain way and flipping the photo can change the topography.
 
Figure 3
 
The above photo of me is how most everyone sees me. I really never felt like it looks like me.
 
 
Figure 4
 
This is the photo as I see myself. What is the difference, it is just flipped or the mirror image that I see each morning in the mirror.
 
I suggest taking a digital photo of yourself and flip it and see if it feels more like yourself.
 
I showed this to a few of the students I was teaching lighting to in Kona, Hawaii and they all were amazed.