Comments on: M.C. Escher Would Love This Photograph

By: Dennis

Dennis — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:10:02 +0000

Clearly not done in photoshop. The only clever thing about this is the shadow, and as stated before it is possibly just pencil on the wood. So there may have just been a photographer out there that understands the concept of how to create a shadow that does something for the image. I’m not impressed…

By: JamesM

JamesM — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:20:51 +0000

Not a photoshop.

The block on the right is tapered to the front along 3 sides until it ends up being a flat sheet of paperwood. Roughed up grain in the front is there to make it look like it’s a different side when it’s really the same flat surface by that point.

What gave it away for me was that some of the shadows were created by pencil.

Larger image here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35739691@N05/3308876734/sizes/l/

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 03:04:27 +0000

Oh wow… once you see it, you can’t unsee it. Clever illusion!

By: cdreid

cdreid — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:27:09 +0000

No photoshop. No veneer. Two different sized 1×1′s on top of each other. The screws different directions. Fingertips carefully placed creates the illusion as your brain tries to make the object fit two different ideas.

By: Squiggy

Squiggy — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:17:14 +0000

I see one block of wood sitting on top of another.

By: liltrix

liltrix — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:08:56 +0000

just a photoshop, and not a great one at that but its still clever

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:51:33 +0000

Funny, I was just about to do the hand on wood illusion myself.

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:24:01 +0000

Oh wow.

By: Gauldar

Gauldar — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:11:40 +0000

Pretty good job with that.

By: anonymousbackstabber

anonymousbackstabber — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:09:05 +0000

veneer + photoshop