The Science of Visual Perception.

[Bill Brooks]

Here are two great articles.

 

One deals with the human brain's reality preferences, and how it can be applied to your photography.

 

https://fstoppers.com/education/why-does-vibrancy-slider-feel-so-good-397267

 

The second emphasizes the importance of retaining your ability to make your own aesthetic judgments about your work, in an age of live gatekeepers being replaced by algorithms.

 

https://petapixel.com/2019/08/13/algorithms-replaced-gatekeepers-and-lowered-the-bar-on-quality/

Edited August 16, 2019 by Bill Brooks

[John Mitchell]

Thanks for the links. Both interesting articles. I especially liked the second one. The gatekeepers were indeed a mixed blessing, but I'm starting to miss them (the good ones at least). One of the reasons I stopped doing freelance writing was the exit of the gatekeepers. But that's another story...

 

Personally, I find that that the "peak shift" thing is often overdone in photography these days. Perhaps we don't all react to high saturation and contrast in the same way.