04-11-2015, 09:32 PM
Quote:Imagine two poles 100 feet tall, with the sun between you and the poles. Do you think the shadows will appear to converge or not? (Not in a photo but if you were looking at the in real life.)
How many times Ray? Shadows converge at their light source, not APPEARS to converge... NOTHING in the real world of physics changes this.
Maybe I miss understand your positioning of me and the poles... regardless of where the objects are... if there is a single source of light, the sun, the shadows still converge in the direction of the sun.
No matter which direction you turn this illustration, no matter which direction you or the poles face and no matter where the sun is... shadows, in the real world of physics Sherlock, converge to their source.
One thing for sure - and I am surprised this image does not make it clear... the shadows cannot CONVERGE in the opposite direction of the sun unless made to appear theat way in a photo. The shadows of the fence behind this boy will NEVER converge in front of the fence. If I took this image from the side with a 35mm or 300mm lens and different distances we can make it appear as if they will.
The only photos that make it appear that shadows converge in the direction of the sahdows is when the photographer is part of the shadow and the vanishing point illusion is amplified
If we saw this entire scene we'd see the shadows all coverging back towards the sun.
Once in a while you get shown the light
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter
in the strangest of places if you look at it right..... R. Hunter