Mona Lisa Secret for Printing with Low High Pass Images

[Mustafa Umut Sarac]

I have posted few articles on Da vinci Mona Lisa painting techniques. 200 visitors and 5 readers of pdf papers. 5 to 71078 members.

One of the secrets of Mona Lisa painting is her smile , when you focus your eyes , its flat look , when you focus somewhere else , She is smiling.

Eye is a high pass filter , it sees the sharp details. When you paint lots of layers and put two images together on painting one on other with low and high pass details , eye sees the high frequency one.

If we take the same portrait with one sharp flat look and one unfocused smiling one and print them on same paper , I bet we create that effect.

Is there any analog photographer uses that technique ?

Umut

 

[NB23]

I think it's just a myth, this smile/no smile BS.

Supposedly, according to many "experts", Mona Lisa is DaVinci himself.

Low pass or high pass, maybe it's just psychological pass.

 

[markbarendt]

The "Orton Effect" comes to mind, google that.

This is also said of grainy images. Sharp prominent print grain gives the eye something to catch/focus on, that in effect can trick the brain into thinking a photo is in better focus or has less blur than it really does.

 

[ic-racer]

The "Orton Effect" comes to mind, google that.

This is also said of grainy images. Sharp prominent print grain gives the eye something to catch/focus on, that in effect can trick the brain into thinking a photo is in better focus or has less blur than it really does.

Yes I think this is one of the keys to successful rollfilm photography. Good enlarging technique, sharp, clean lenses, aligned enlargers, etc.

 

[F4user]

http://www.moillusions.com/mit-illusion-of-many-albert-einsteins/

 

[cliveh]

This painting is probably the best example of how a good work of art asks questions for the viewer to interpret in there own way.