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One stupid thing I have figured out about the eye is that at the center of your eye is a whole bunch of receptors. Now when you look around this higher concentration of sensors are pointed at whatever you are looking at. The effect of this in a normal person like me, is that what ever you are looking at is in high definition and high focus. When you are looking around, you are really just training this sensory sweet spot on what you want to see. This is because the rest of your eye can't see that well. What I end up trying to do is look at the spots where am not looking at and see how bad my vision there is but to no avail because I have already moved my eye.
This is all dumb I know, but I feel it is a contradiction to how we feel about how we see. It seems like we can see everything in our eye's view, but it is only what we are pointing our eye at that gets any good resolution.
This is what makes those graphs lisa posted so cool. They had something like that in our photography class. I think the idea was that good pictures have this triangle that your eye moves along (like number 1.) That is why certain pictures hold your gaze longer. Anyway for me photography is all about framing your shot right, and as image of the day has, shooting interesting content.
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