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Have you tried many Leicas in your photography , researched in magazines , annals ? If you know what were you looking for , you would able to see the three dimensional look. What can you do if you dont have money ? Here is the trick from Leonardo da Vinci !
Monocular Vision
Normally people look at their pictures with both eyes. Any one knows that it is best to view a picture with one eye ?
If you don't then try this experiment: take one of your 8x10" picture, and place it at your normal reading distance, close one eye and look at it with only one eye. Blink a few times and stare at it again, you will suddenly find that the picture in your hand looks more three dimensional ! Open the other eye, and look at it with both eye, you will find the same picture becomes flat again.
It was in Beijing National Library beside the beautiful Bei Hai Park(North Sea Park), when I was reading a note book by Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, in which he wrote that when looking at a high relief with one eye, it looked flat, but when view with one eye a picture of the same relief, the relief picture looked standing out. I tried Leonardo's method on my photographs, how true ! Picture viewed with one eye indeed look more 3 dimensional then viewing the same picture with both eyes.
The reason behind this pseudo-3D vision is because the two human eyes depend on image disparity as 3D cue. When you use two eyes to view ONE picture, the images on the retinas of both eyes are the same, as if placing two identical pictures in steroscope viewer, the brain immediately tells you it is FLAT.
However, when you view a picture with only one eye, the retina image is identical to the retina image when you view the real landscape or object with also one eye. Since there is no second eye to tell the brain that "it is 3D" or "it is flat ", the brain is programmed through several millions years of evolution to relies on the shadow and light, perspective of objects to interpret the retina vision as 3D, that is why monocular vision of a picture looks more 3D like.
Of course, this is not true 3D, but a pseudo-3D.
You may watch your TV or even movie that way for fun
One can learn a lot from masters like Leonardo da Vinci, he had incredibly keen observation and mind.
-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), November 29, 1999
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B) If one manages to switch off binocularity, photographs can be viewed as 3-DIMENTIONAL IMAGES! - similar to stereograms. The secret was known even at the time of Reneissance, and Leonardo da Vinci recommended to view the paintings WITH ONE EYE. Briefly it was fascionable to put a curtain in front of paintings, and view them through a small hole in it with one eye. Try it on photographs, and you will be amazed.
Michael Bender , Nov 30, 2002; 07:56 p.m.
Monocular Vision
Normally people look at their pictures with both eyes. Any one knows that it is best to view a picture with one eye ?
If you don't then try this experiment: take one of your 8x10" picture, and place it at your normal reading distance, close one eye and look at it with only one eye. Blink a few times and stare at it again, you will suddenly find that the picture in your hand looks more three dimensional ! Open the other eye, and look at it with both eye, you will find the same picture becomes flat again.
It was in Beijing National Library beside the beautiful Bei Hai Park(North Sea Park), when I was reading a note book by Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, in which he wrote that when looking at a high relief with one eye, it looked flat, but when view with one eye a picture of the same relief, the relief picture looked standing out. I tried Leonardo's method on my photographs, how true ! Picture viewed with one eye indeed look more 3 dimensional then viewing the same picture with both eyes.
The reason behind this pseudo-3D vision is because the two human eyes depend on image disparity as 3D cue. When you use two eyes to view ONE picture, the images on the retinas of both eyes are the same, as if placing two identical pictures in steroscope viewer, the brain immediately tells you it is FLAT.
However, when you view a picture with only one eye, the retina image is identical to the retina image when you view the real landscape or object with also one eye. Since there is no second eye to tell the brain that "it is 3D" or "it is flat ", the brain is programmed through several millions years of evolution to relies on the shadow and light, perspective of objects to interpret the retina vision as 3D, that is why monocular vision of a picture looks more 3D like.
Of course, this is not true 3D, but a pseudo-3D.
You may watch your TV or even movie that way for fun
One can learn a lot from masters like Leonardo da Vinci, he had incredibly keen observation and mind.
-- martin tai (martin.tai@capcanada.com), November 29, 1999
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B) If one manages to switch off binocularity, photographs can be viewed as 3-DIMENTIONAL IMAGES! - similar to stereograms. The secret was known even at the time of Reneissance, and Leonardo da Vinci recommended to view the paintings WITH ONE EYE. Briefly it was fascionable to put a curtain in front of paintings, and view them through a small hole in it with one eye. Try it on photographs, and you will be amazed.
Michael Bender , Nov 30, 2002; 07:56 p.m.
