Sunday, May 10, 2009

Reflection in Art

This is a picture of one of the art pieces I did this year, I etched the flower into a piece of glass and then put a red background on it and made a wooden frame, it turned out all right, but when Jungle was trying to photograph it for my art portfolio he was having a hard time because of the reflection off of the glass. If you look closely at the bottom of the picture you can see the image of jungle with a hat on and the camera up to his face. 
Reflection occurs when light from a source bounces off an object, like a mirror or a piece of glass, and travels toward your eyes. 
According to the law of reflection, the incidence ray, which is the light ray from the object (in this case Jungle) to the reflective object (the glass), and the reflected ray, from the glass to the viewer's eyes, are equal. Also, light rays are reversible.
When our brain sees the light wave that bounces off the glass, we extrapolate the image backward, so the reflected image is actually behind the glass, or so it appears in our heads. So, in this picture, Jungle's image is the same distance behind the glass as Jungle actually is in front of the glass. 
Object distance = images distance. 

2 comments:

jcarlile09 said...

perhaps if you used a polarized lens on the camera it would block out the jungle bob light. Do they have those?

Hannah S. said...

i dont know... but thats a really good idea