Photography is a highly effective form of visual communication. You could consider your lens is your third eye, but how do you learn to see better and translate your visual skills to your camera? Having good eyesight helps, but understanding eyesight can help even more.
The psychology of photography
Experimental articles looking at how our brains relate to cameras and our eyes relate to lenses and how we make sense of visual information and communicate effectively through photography.
Photography and the collective unconscious
The Collective Unconscious The Collective Unconscious is a concept in psychoanalysis…
Like riding a bike – How Different Brain Areas Help You Take Photos
Walnut & Broccoli Salad If you remove the hair and skull…
Mastering Depth Perception
This is an ironic thing for you to be reading because…
Face perception
Aaargh! Faces are everywhere! Look deep into this glacier ice close-up…
The Photographer’s Genie – What drives our Passion for Photography?
Are we responsible for being creative? Or does creativity come from forces outside of our creative consciousness?
Critique
Give and receive critique Spending time critiquing other photographer’s work is…
Visual processing – from eye to understanding
Light entering the eye and being processed by the visual areas…
Left brain versus right brain
Our brains have many parts, but most of us are familiar…
Photography and visual impairment.
When I started my website several years ago, amidst all the…
Photography as Communication
If you have communication in mind when you take the picture, then your photograph will have a communication value. This article discusses photography as communication.