When do pictures look distorted, and what can we do about it? I’m not talking about “optical distortion”—flaws in lens optics—I’m talking about the perception of distortion. We seem to have a sense of when an object “looks right” or “wrong.” For example, here’s a photo I took with my smartphone:| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog
Have you ever noticed how peoples’ faces look stretched in group selfies?| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog
A few years ago, while walking home, I noticed a dry cleaners across the street from my house. “Was that always there?” I thought, surprised. I’d walked by that spot many, many times over the years, but I’d never noticed the cleaners. A little Googling revealed that it’s been on my street for longer than I have. Yet, if you’d asked me for the nearest dry cleaners near my house, I would have answered that I didn’t know of any.| Aaron Hertzmann’s blog