Mysteries of Photography
A series of short articles on some weird and wonderful aspects of human perception, imaging and photography.
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Mysteries of Photography #1: We see with our Brains, not with our Eyes
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Mysteries of Photography #2: Your Brain, Rainbows and RGB
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Mysteries of Photography #3: White Balance, a.k.a. Colour Temperature
Mysteries of Photography #4:
Edge Perception
Mysteries of Photography #6: Why is Lens Aperture always “F” Divided by a Number?
Mysteries of Photography #7: Why 1.4, 2, 2.8, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16, etc.?
Mysteries of Photography #8: Binary Numbers and Photography
Mysteries of Photography #9: Why I made a deliberate error in Mysteries #8 and why White is (255,255,255) in JPG RGB
Mysteries of Photography #10: Are your Prints and your Digital Images showing as too dark in competitions?
Mysteries of Photography #11: Why do competitions specify Digital Images in the sRGB colorspace?
Mysteries of Photography #12: Is sRGB all that Bad?