2017—Optical Illusions
While photographing birds in the garden Sunday morning, the mockingbird hopped over to the stone bench in the back of my garden and perched on the ears of a concrete rabbit setting in front of the bench. I liked the composition with the squirrel garden ornament directly behind the mockingbird and with its head cocked and directed the same as the mockingbird’s head. When I downloaded the images, I realized that the mockingbird looks as if I superimposed it on top of a photograph of the squirrel. Furthermore, it almost looks like the bird is in 3-D, ready to leap out of the photograph.
My guess is that compression from using the 600mm telephoto lens somehow created the illusion that the mocker is superimposed. If I didn’t know better, I’d have said this was a poorly done composite.
