Depth of field affects perceived depth-width ratios in photographs of natural scenes

Seeing and Perceiving

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 577-595

  Nefs, Harold T ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

depth; depth of field; photography; Visual perception

Indexed keywords

BINOCULAR VIEWING; DEPTH; DEPTH OF FIELD; INFLUENCE DEPTHS; PERCEIVED DISTANCES; VIEWING CONDITIONS; VIEWING DISTANCE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

BINOCULARS; EXPERIMENTS;

PHOTOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BINOCULAR VISION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; CUES; DISTANCE PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTOGRAPHY; VISION, BINOCULAR;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84874864577     PISSN: 18784755     EISSN: 18784763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/18784763-00002400     Document Type: Article

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