Gestalt Shift Bird Image
The image below is a single-exposure photo. It wasn't created by Photoshop. Knowing that, it took me a long time to make sense of the image (because my brain refused to see how it could be a scene from real life). My wife, on the other hand, figured it out right away.
Some info about it from PetaPixel:
PetaPixel also explains how to make sense of it, if you're stuck.
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Some info about it from PetaPixel:
The photograph, titled “Gap,” was captured by a Japanese photographer named Kenichi Ohno from the Saitama Prefecture in the Kantō region of Honshu, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. Kenichi entered the photo in the 39th “Japanese Nature” photo contest put on by the The All-Japan Association of Photographic Societies (AJAPS), which boasts 10,000 members across Japan, and the photo was honored as a “Special Selection” winner.
PetaPixel also explains how to make sense of it, if you're stuck.
via TYWKIWDBI
Comments
Sorry to say it's absolutely plain to me from the first glance. I don't know why some people have trouble processing it.
Posted by Phideaux on 03/21/24 at 07:51 PM
Phideaux, if it's simple for you, it should be easy for you to explain it.
Posted by Yudith on 03/22/24 at 06:02 AM
I'm guessing it separates left-brain / right-brain -dominate people, altho someone else will have to explain that. Personally, I'm still looking for the photoshopping.
Posted by Virtual in Carnate on 03/22/24 at 11:33 AM
It's a bird wading past a building. The building is mirrored in the water and the bird is walking in front of the reflection. Looks odd, but easily explainable.
Posted by Brewvet on 03/22/24 at 01:23 PM
@Yudith -- From my point of view, it doesn't need explaining. It's a bird wading along the shoreline, and there's a wall (beach erosion control?) which extends into the water behind it. Do I start by telling why birds like that stand in water at the shoreline? Do I go on about how some objects are farther away than others? Do I embark on the quite lengthy and full-of-math explanation about how/why water reflects light?
Actually, I seem to be the opposite of some -- even if I squint, I can't wrap my mind around how someone could not see what it is.
Actually, I seem to be the opposite of some -- even if I squint, I can't wrap my mind around how someone could not see what it is.
Posted by Phideaux on 03/22/24 at 10:06 PM
That's cute. But no, f@^& that, that's not true.
Petapixel claims there's a building.
There's no building. No building has a water structure on its wall. No photograph is pixel-straight. I use photo manipulating software professionally - *no* photograph is that perfectly straight.
No mirror image *reverses* the colour of a rock. Come on! A reflection may turn a rock from white to black, but it doesn't turn it yellow to blue.
No reflection changes the colour of the background, but not of the bird.
(Also, come on... the ripples in the water don't even continue.)
Petapixel is lying. This is an obvious Photoshop. No, scratch that, this isn't even a Photoshop. This is a Gimp.
Petapixel claims there's a building.
There's no building. No building has a water structure on its wall. No photograph is pixel-straight. I use photo manipulating software professionally - *no* photograph is that perfectly straight.
No mirror image *reverses* the colour of a rock. Come on! A reflection may turn a rock from white to black, but it doesn't turn it yellow to blue.
No reflection changes the colour of the background, but not of the bird.
(Also, come on... the ripples in the water don't even continue.)
Petapixel is lying. This is an obvious Photoshop. No, scratch that, this isn't even a Photoshop. This is a Gimp.
Posted by Richard Bos on 03/23/24 at 09:46 AM
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