Several years ago I posted a thread which recently got necroed (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/eyeball-benders.1376605/).
Growing up in the '80s I used to read Games magazine. It had a section called Eyeball Benders--photos of common objects taken with uncommon perspectives, usually macro. The challenge was to identify what object each photo represented. Some were easy, some were harder. The best ones were photos where the published image was obscure but once you knew what it was it seemed obvious in retrospect.
Thought this might be a fun thing to do again here. Doesn't require specific gear or exceptional skill (though both can make things more interesting).
The prior thread was somewhat popular and its recent bump made me decide to start a new thread with the same theme.
It's kind of a visual puzzle challenge. Everyone can post images. The idea is to have a subject that is common enough that forum readers could be expected to be familiar with it, but shot in a way where it isn't immediately obvious what the subject is. Macro is a great way to go about this, but isn't required. The goal isn't to post printable images with ideal composition and lighting (though if that happens, awesome). The goal is capture visual puzzles where it isn't immediately obvious what the subject is, but they can be reasonably expected to be able to be figured out from the pic (and possible hints in the post). Once you know the answer, it becomes an "oh yeah, that is so obvious now" type of moment.
Anyone can post their own images to contribute to the thread and anyone can respond. Assuming several people might contribute, I'd like to lay out some ground rules.
When contributing images to the thread, number them all and number them in relation to your posts only (i.e. you post 2 images, several other people post images, you decide to post more--number your subsequent images in relation to your posts and not the total images in the thread). Okay to include a clue if you feel so inclined.
For responses, start your response with "@<poster>" (i.e. @kallisti if responding to my images). And then list the image number you are responding to. Hopefully this will help to avoid chaos in the responses to the thread.
Here are 4 I shot today to get the thread started.
(1) No initial hint.
(2) No initial hint.
(3) No initial hint.
(4) No initial hint.
Starting things off easy (I think). Feel free to offer guesses and/or offer up your own Eyeball Benders for the forum readers to scratch their heads over
Growing up in the '80s I used to read Games magazine. It had a section called Eyeball Benders--photos of common objects taken with uncommon perspectives, usually macro. The challenge was to identify what object each photo represented. Some were easy, some were harder. The best ones were photos where the published image was obscure but once you knew what it was it seemed obvious in retrospect.
Thought this might be a fun thing to do again here. Doesn't require specific gear or exceptional skill (though both can make things more interesting).
The prior thread was somewhat popular and its recent bump made me decide to start a new thread with the same theme.
It's kind of a visual puzzle challenge. Everyone can post images. The idea is to have a subject that is common enough that forum readers could be expected to be familiar with it, but shot in a way where it isn't immediately obvious what the subject is. Macro is a great way to go about this, but isn't required. The goal isn't to post printable images with ideal composition and lighting (though if that happens, awesome). The goal is capture visual puzzles where it isn't immediately obvious what the subject is, but they can be reasonably expected to be able to be figured out from the pic (and possible hints in the post). Once you know the answer, it becomes an "oh yeah, that is so obvious now" type of moment.
Anyone can post their own images to contribute to the thread and anyone can respond. Assuming several people might contribute, I'd like to lay out some ground rules.
When contributing images to the thread, number them all and number them in relation to your posts only (i.e. you post 2 images, several other people post images, you decide to post more--number your subsequent images in relation to your posts and not the total images in the thread). Okay to include a clue if you feel so inclined.
For responses, start your response with "@<poster>" (i.e. @kallisti if responding to my images). And then list the image number you are responding to. Hopefully this will help to avoid chaos in the responses to the thread.
Here are 4 I shot today to get the thread started.
(1) No initial hint.
(2) No initial hint.
(3) No initial hint.
(4) No initial hint.
Starting things off easy (I think). Feel free to offer guesses and/or offer up your own Eyeball Benders for the forum readers to scratch their heads over
