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Developing the Photographer’s Eye
Photography is a highly effective form of visual communication. You could consider your lens is your third eye, but how do you…
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Photography and the collective unconscious
The Collective Unconscious The Collective Unconscious is a concept in psychoanalysis that claims there is a level of consciousness in the human…
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Like riding a bike – How Different Brain Areas Help You Take Photos
Walnut & Broccoli Salad If you remove the hair and skull from the back of your head and used 2 mirrors and…
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Mastering Depth Perception
This is an ironic thing for you to be reading because while you are reading this you are using very little depth…
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Face perception
Aaargh! Faces are everywhere! Look deep into this glacier ice close-up photograph. How many faces you can see? Face perception is thought…
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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?
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Critique
Give and receive critique Spending time critiquing other photographer’s work is the best way to fast track your photography when you’re not…
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Visual processing – from eye to understanding
Light entering the eye and being processed by the visual areas of the brain is a fascinating journey. Some of the brain…
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Left brain versus right brain
Our brains have many parts, but most of us are familiar with the the walnut shaped outer part. This part is called…
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Photography and visual impairment.
When I started my website several years ago, amidst all the learning about HTML and style-sheets, learning how to tackle the issues…
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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…
Category: 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.