How to Create a Mind-Bending Camera-less Mirror Self-Portrait
Snapping a self-portrait of oneself in a mirror is something every photographer has probably done before, but have you ever created one in which there isn’t a camera in the shot? The images look...
View ArticleNeat Camera Trick Makes Falling Water Appear to Float Upwards
A couple weeks ago we shared an interesting video in which a speaker and Canon 5D Mark II’s frame rate were used to make water appear to be frozen in mid-air. This new video by YouTube user Brusspup...
View ArticleMind-Bending Mirror Scene from the Movie “Sucker Punch”
If you liked the the “impossible shot” from the film Contact that we shared earlier this week, you’ll enjoy this clip as well. It’s a shot from the film Sucker Punch that uses some clever camera work...
View ArticleTrippy Portraits Shot at a Photo Illusion Museum
World travel bloggers Michael Powell and Jürgen Horn recently visited the The Trick Eye Museum in South Korea, where visitors can snap humorous and mind-bending pictures of themselves interacting with...
View ArticleMind-Bending Reflection Portraits Shot Using a Wet Plate Camera
Last week we issued a challenge asking readers to shoot a creative mirror self-portrait using an alternative style of photography. Reader Agustin Barrutia took us up on that challenge, and created a...
View ArticleAnamorphic Illusions Created Using High-Res Prints of Photos
YouTube illusion and science channel Brusspup recently did an anamorphic illusion project in which he photographed a few random objects resting on a piece of paper (e.g. a Rubik’s cube, a roll of...
View ArticlePerspective: Objects in Pictures Are Not Always As They Seem
The video above is only 44 seconds long, but we’ll bet it’ll take up at least a minute and a half of your time — you’ll just have to watch it twice. It was created by British psychological professor...
View ArticleMind-Bending Recursive Illusion Created Using Printed Photographs
Whoa. If you enjoy watching mind-bending concepts that confuse you and make your brain hurt, check out this experimental short by Willie Witte, titled “Screengrab.” Nothing in the video is computer...
View ArticlePhoto Recursion Effect with Smartphones in a Circle
Categories: Ideas InspirationTags: cooleffectmindbendingphotoinaphotorecursiontrippyWhen Toronto-based photo enthusiast Alexander Kolomietz had a birthday party recently, he asked his guests to stand...
View ArticleThis Mind-Bending, Colorful Photo Mosaic is Actually a Single Photograph
Check out this colorful photo mosaic created by photographer Bela Borsodi for the cover of the album “Terrain” by VLP (you can find a larger version here). Would you believe us if we told you that...
View ArticleProcess This Negative With Your Brain
Categories: FindsTags: advertisementamazingbraincooleyesinvertedmindbendingmindblowingneatnegativeopticalillusionprocessviralwowHere’s something that’ll blow your mind (sorry that it’s an ad): stare at...
View Article13 Mind-Bending Thoughts About Photography
Photographer Matthew Rycroft put together this video containing 13 strange, random, and mind-bending “facts” about photography. These are short and seemingly obvious statements that may make you stop...
View ArticleThis Optical Illusion Changes the Way You See Famous Photos
Want to see something mind-bending? Here’s a simple optical illusion that will literally change the way you see famous photos. Stare at the center of the following animated image and count to 10 (or...
View ArticleHow to Shoot Inception-Style Drone Photos
If you have been following anything drone-related lately, chances are you have seen one of the mind-bending images like the one above that are very reminiscent of the scene from Inception when the...
View ArticleThis Guy is a Master of Mind-Bending Camera Illusions
Back in May, artist Kevin Parry released a viral illusion video of himself walking into a mirror in a forest and emerging out the other side. If you liked that one, check out Parry’s new video above...
View ArticleThese Architectural Photos Are Optical Illusions That Will Confuse Your Brain
German photographer Max Leitner has published a project titled “Misleading Lines.” It’s a series of architectural photos shot in Warsaw, Poland. They’re not standard architectural images, though:...
View ArticleThis Photo Shows an Ice Cave Being Lit by a Flare
Here’s a beautiful and mind-bending photo captured by photographer Daniel Kordan. While at first glance it might look like some kind of Photoshopped composite showing a river under a sunset with...
View ArticleThis Photo Shows Flat Farmland Turned Into a 3D Illusion by Windblown Snow
Check out this photo captured from a plane over Colorado. It looks like strange blocks arranged in a grid across the Earth, but it’s actually ultra-flat farmland that has been turned into a 3D...
View ArticleThis ‘Hole in the Clouds’ Photo Looks Like a Glitch in the Matrix
Kentaro Fukuchi was walking on a sidewalk in Japan on Monday when he captured this mind-bending photo that looks like a Photoshop job or some kind of glitch in the Matrix. The building’s mirror-like...
View ArticleThis Guy Bends Time and Space in Slow Motion
“Playing With Time” is a new mind-blowing 1.5-minute video by Macro Room in which a man bends time and space in slow motion. It was created entirely with a high-speed camera with clever planning and...
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