Friday, September 20, 2013

Illusions

"Never point your camera at the sun," they say. But rules are made to be broken.

Mid-afternoon, over the White Rock beach.

Why does the horizon sometimes curve upwards? All the explanations I can find say it's an optical illusion, but the camera sees it, and drawing a straight line, edge to edge, leaves a gap in the centre. There must be a better theory!

A Skywatch post.

8 comments:

  1. Nice shot, I'm sure that optics somehow plays a role but I don't worry about it.

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  2. Anonymous7:56 am

    Blue sky such a delight.

    Nice take.

    Drop into my blog on Friday Skywatch.

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  3. Anonymous9:09 am

    gorgeous! I'm from BC too, over at Skywatch today, stopping by to enjoy your amazing photo.

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  4. Magical to me. Love it.

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  5. Looks like magic to me! (And isn't that enough of a theory?) Gorgeous shot.

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  6. Tom P2:01 pm

    The distortion is in the camera lense. It's got a bit of fisheye/sperical distortion in it. Really good lenses correct for it and you can use Photoshop. http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/correcting-image-distortion-noise.html
    Great blog!

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  7. Pretty shot. Like Tom said, it's in the lens. I notice it more with wide angle lenses, and not at all with standard lenses.

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  8. Thanks, all!

    It's the lens? That makes sense. The camera was Laurie's little Pentax point and shoot, and it has a good zoom.

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