Eye vs Camera - Different Perceptions of the Same World

How many times have you took a picture and then when we saw them, they got disappointed because it's not the beauty that you looked at the time of shooting? But the scene you filmed the scene and you saw were the same. This is not surprising, because the camera sees the world differently than our eyes. Now I will try to summarize the main points. This will help you make the reality more accurately from your photos or taking advantage of these differences in creativeartwork.

For starters, we have two eyes, while the camera has just one lens! Thanks to our stereoscopic view, we can perceive depth. This is because we can see the world from two slightly different points of view. Each of our eyes sees reality from a slightly different angle (parallax angle). Our brain then elaborates the information coming from both of our eyes permitting us to perceive depth. This is impossible for a camera, and that's why pictures tend to be "flat" (actually they are). If you try to cover one of your eyes, you will get the point. In this case, of course, your reasoning will still tell you if an object is nearer than another (e.g. a nearer car will appear bigger than a further away one). However, you will not perceive depth as before. Try catching a ball someone has thrown to you: you will probably miss it!

Depth of field is something unknown to our eyes but always lurking in the camera. When we look at something, be it near or far away, we instantly focus it. The camera usually can focus either the near objects or the objects far away, but not all of them contemporarily.

Another striking difference between the eye and the camera is their ability to see contrasty scenes. In each scene we look at, there are some parts darker and other parts brighter. Our eyes are usually able to see correctly both of them, virtually simultaneously. But the camera can't. If Have you ever tried to photograph a subject in the shade with a bright background (see example), you noticed that the person was rendered too dark underexposed () or the background is too light (overexposed). It was not your fault: it is used in the middle, take the picture, was a classic film or a CCD sensor.

What color? The colors are different, even seen. Also find various film or CCD color differently. Even our field of view is different from that> Room for camera field of view depends on the lens mounted.

At the end of all that these differences are good or bad? Depends. If you're struggling to make the scene are to appear, as does eye, you have to work hard to overcome these different properties. On the other hand, if you want to be creative, these differences are the same as a golden opportunity.