Have you ever experienced the frustration of capturing what you thought was the perfect photo only to find an unexpected stranger spoiling the background? Or you painstakingly have set up a fantastic ...

Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from their backgrounds. A spider camouflaged against a branch, for instance, immediately loses its invisibility once it ...

Blurry backgrounds in photographs can make objects seem smaller than they actually are – and experiments have given us new clues about what makes this illusion so effective. Photographers use a ...

Visual motion is an important source of information for separating objects from their backgrounds. A spider camouflaged against a branch, for instance, immediately loses its invisibility once it ...

If you want your friend to see you in a crowd, you wave your arms to stand out. As University of Rochester researchers found, one reason why this works is that the brain suppresses the background, ...