Foveas and Photographs

I am starting a ongoing blog series which explores the relationship between photography and human vision. The aim is better understand the intricacies involved with the way we see before photographs are taken, the way cameras capture our vision, and the way we see photographs when they are displayed. This will help you make better images, Images which can better fulfill your original vision.

1) A photograph is as good as blank space unless its viewed, and to be viewed, human vision is involved.
2) The vast majority of photographs are made by capturing something already seen by a human’s eye. Or a vision of how the light will be captured if we manipulate the light captured. -Exceptions; Hubble telescope and blind photographers etc, but even these photographs are subject to #1

The human eye is the most important camera to consider when photographing, because without it an image is nothing. Can a photographer afford not to train the most important camera he’ll ever use?
A little warning, if you are to take these ideas to heart you will really start to change the way you see. You will find yourself being interrogated by the people around you; “What ARE you doing?” I was sitting at a restaurant eating sushi when I unconsciously started moving my head like a charmed snake, with one eye closed, as I examined how the light was refracting through frosted glass on the wall.

Foveas and Photographs Directory;

-Introduction to Foveas and Photographs

- Benefits of Stereo Vision You Didn’t Know About
- Controlling Your Viewer’s Perception
- Field of View
- LDR -Exploiting a Shallow Dynamic Range