Do you find anything funny in this picture ? 🤔
Answer : Here Phalguni looks like a giant(Gulliver from Gulliver travels) and our Ammu looks like a tiny miny mousy (a liliput).This photo made me wonder how photographers demonstrate "depth" or sense of "scale" in a (good) photograph.
A 2D depiction of a 3D scene is just an illusion exploiting how our brain synthesizes information to determine the "depth" in real-time. Our brain is very complex but gets fooled easily. We have a notion that when an object becomes more distant, it appears smaller than the one which is closer to the viewer.
In reality our brain has encodings of "natural" size of different objects like trees, cars, people and animals. So when we see a person twice as big as building, we cannot rationally conclude that the person is actually twice as big in reality. Our brain tells us that the building is farther away for a person. Alternatively when we carefully place different objects at different distances but giving an illusion that they are in the same plane produces funny images.
So in a nutshell, our brain makes an evaluation of the sizes based on "known" objects in relationship with other objects in the photo. Thus a distance is "imagined" in the brain and creates the "depth" in the photo that the photographer is looking for. This is also called "scaling" which helps the viewer to determine the actual size or relative size of the objects in the picture.
PS (chota muh aur badi bat): Hope next time cvs ensure that they do not highlight this height difference and make it so obvious.
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