Today's post is on Creating Amazzing photos via Amazing perspective photography.
Well, What is this Forced Perspective Photography ? Hmmm...
Forced perspective is a photographic illusion generally used to make two or more objects seem to be a different size than their actual size. This type of forced perspective is made possible by the single lens of the camera. Unlike your eyes, which work in tandem to create depth perception, the camera only has one eye. As such, the camera has no depth perception, it sees things as flat. This is the same reason tree limbs in the background appear to grow out of the head of subjects in photographs.
Types of Forced Perspective
Forced Perspective generally falls into a few main categories.- Making a main subject larger
- Making a main subject smaller
- Merging subjects
- Bending gravity
Common Forced Perspective Photos
While the opportunities for forced perspective are nearly limitless,
there are some "standard" photos that have come to represent forced
perspective purely because of how common these specific photos have
become as they are copied many times.
- Holding a landmark
- Holding/eating the sun/moon
- Holding another person in one hand
- Toy larger than person/pet
- People hanging from top of photo
- Person stepping on another person
- An older photograph or a sketch merged over a current scene
How to Take a Forced Perspective Photo
The process for taking a forced perspective picture varies depending on they type of forced perspective image you are creating.
How to Take a Gravity Defying Forced Perspective Photo
Defying gravity in a photo is one of the easiest forced perspective photographs to create. The basics of a gravity defying photo is to turn the photo upside down or on its side. Subjects will lay down on the ground with their feet on a wall as though they were sitting against the wall, multiple subjects can lay down on the ground at various locations to appear to be flying, or subjects can lean out of doorways to give the illusion of hanging. Don’t be afraid to experiment with your poses to find one that works best. Finding a location that works for this type of shot is the difficult part.
To find a location, look for a spot where a subject can lay down on the ground in such a way that you look like you are sitting against a wall and the camera can be positioned where the wall looks like the floor instead of a wall. Piers where reflections mirror the background also work well. Long hallways with doors or columns on either side allow subjects to lean into the hallway to suggest hanging or climbing out of the ceiling/floor once the photo is turned are excellent options as well.
Here are few examples and tricks as well
Pluck a Sphere of Light
Take that same idea and apply it in a new way and you’ve got the kind of photo that makes you look twice. To achieve this effect, photographer Lee ‘Mr. Moog’ used shallow focus and allowed the lens of his camera to render out-of-focus points of lights as little floating spheres. Perfect photo..!!
Blowing in the Wind
Photographer Jeppe Olsen took a whole set of forced perspective photos out in the Salar de Uyuni salt flats in Bolivia, which provide a minimalist background ideal for deceptive shots like this one, making both the foreground and background subjects stand out equally.
Toy Cars, or Giant Man?
This is definitely one of those photos that make you go, “what?” It’s hard to tell exactly how the photographer achieved this effect, but according to his Flickr, there was no Photoshop involved.
Well these were some the tips and tricks to create amazing forced perspective photos. I'll post soon part II of this.
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