First-person approaches to investigating experience are often criticised for their inability to resolve phenomenological disputes. Does a tilted plate look elliptical in some sense or does it look like a tilted circle (or both)? Philosophers disagree. Are there reliable first-person methods available to decide what shows up in experience? One method proposed is that of phenomenal contrast (Siegel, 2007), that is contrasting a tilted plate with a non-tilted plate to see if there is a phenomenal difference. Whilst it is clear that there is an experiential difference, the method does not decide the original question as to whether ‘elliptical’ is an appropriate description of how the tilted plate appears to me. I propose that the method of contrast can be enhanced by using apparatus for making the contrast and for recording the outcome of the contrast. I refer to these methods as first-person experiments. The goal of this paper is to illustrate a first-person experimental methodology, and make some progress in deciding what shows up in visual experience. I investigate the following questions: (1) Does my hand look larger than my foot? (2) Does a tilted plate look elliptical? I present first-person experiments in support of these two hypotheses, in particular, showing that my hand usually takes up more space in the visual field than my foot, and that a tilted plate takes up an elliptical shaped area in the visual field. I discuss objections to the experiments, and argue against the view that these investigations just tell us about the image on the retina rather than visual experience.