Our eyes can be deceived through trickery and optical illusions. Below are a series of photographs and (photos of) paintings. Are you able to identify whether they are the former or the latter?
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Photographer for the National Geographic magazine, Frans Lanting captured this photograph in Dead Vlei, Namibia. According to Lanting, this painting illusion is due to “the intensity of the sunlight falling only on the dune in the distance, while the foreground is still in early morning shadow, so the trees are almost in silhouette”. The 12,000 feet tall dune against the vivid reddish-orange colour further contributes to the illusion.
http://www.sunnyskyz.com/happy-pictures/1347/This-is-not-a-painting-This-is-the-Namib-desert
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Hyperrealist painter, Pedro Campos produces realistic still life shots through the use of oil paint. Hot Day III presents intricate details, illusion of light and blending of harsh lines produce the illusion of an image. At 46 years-old, Campos only began oil painting at 30 years-old!
15 Unbelievable Paintings That Look Like Photographs
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Alyssia Monk employs oil paint to “distort the body in shallow painted spaces”. Through heavy paint strokes and immense attention to colour, Monk creates a convincing glass, steam, water and woman from afar. However, the strokes from the paintbrush become obvious up close.
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Alexa Meades photographs her representational painting that’s on a real-life subject. Her manipulation of three dimensional space becomes an optical illusion of a two dimensional painting.
http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/alexa_meades_photographs_that_look_like_paintings/
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A finger-painted portrait of the great Morgan Freeman. See for yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEdRLlqdgA4
http://planet1051.com/amazing-ipad-finger-painting-looks-like-a-photograph-of-morgan-freeman-video/