About Down is up
Images where the down direction in real space is up on the computer screen. E.g. photos looking down a creek or waterfall, as in
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Some of these images work well, more often it is hard to see which way the water runs.
Has anyone ever seen a painting where water runs up the canvas? In 400 years of painting in the camera obscura/window paradigm, they didn't figure out how to do that? Or did they avoid it, because they knew our brains are unable to read it? Maybe painters are too lazy to drag their equipment to the top of a waterfall?
A painter has the freedom to choose a point of view 30 feet over the edge. When we get remote-controlled flying cameras, may be photographers will try to avoid water running up the canvas, too?
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