eyes

One tip that instructors often pass onto the beginning photographers is to use their …

Want to see how your eyes stack up against other photographers when it comes to seeing colors? Try your …

In a paper published in Science this week, Japanese researchers reported on a discovery that jumping spiders use a method for gauging distance called "image defocus", which no other living organism is known to use. Rather than use focusing and stereoscopic vision like humans or head-wobbling motion parallax like birds, the spiders have two green-detecting layers in their eyes -- one in focus and one not. By comparing the two, the spiders can determine the distance from objects. Scientists discovered that bathing spiders in pure red light "breaks" their distance measuring ability.

Here’s something that’ll blow your mind (sorry that it’s an ad): stare at the colored dots on this girl’s …

Here’s a quick and simple tip for better portraits by Reddit user rmx_: …

Photographer Daniel Fox captured this beautiful (and spooky) photograph of dozens of pairs …

After seeing his close-up photographs of human eyes become enormously popular last year, photographer Suren Manvelyan turned to a more difficult subject: animals. He somehow managed to create a series of photographs showing the stunning eyes of animals ranging from crocodiles to horses.

We’ve shared a couple stories in the past month on how human eyes are very subjective and …

What if in the future, the human eye itself could be turned into a camera by simply reading and recording the data that it sends to the brain? As crazy as it sounds, researchers have already accomplished this at a very basic level.

Here’s a short inspirational video featuring Canadian photographer Jeff Wall in which he …

As the low-light capabilities of high-end (and even low-end) cameras rapidly improve, it’s easy to marvel at …