get some perspective

[Guest]

fantastic use of perspective

 

http://www.boredpanda.com/miniature-car-forced-perspective-elgin-park-michael-paul-smith/

[Dennyboy]

Saw that the other day, he uses his eye and had been doing it decades

[Denis]

And that link Richard is brilliant! thanks for finding that and posting!

[Guest]

I cant take credit for finding it my son sent it to me

[ChrisLumix]

That's amazing - what really impresses is how well he then matches the  tonal values of the 'real' background to the miniature foreground.

[NannyFerret]

That's ingenious.

There was a lady on here who did the same sort of thing with cars and warriors but she didn't come on much after she joined. 

[Guest DaveW]

Great photography. The cinema uses those sort of effects, but often uses the same principle in reverse with matte painting where actual figures are set against a glass painted background using perspective so it looks miles away in the distance:-

http://imgur.com/a/T86dJ
 
You can of course use similar effects in stills photography if you have the patience and artistic skills to either put real people or models in front of creative backgrounds. If you were a Photoshop Guru you could even do it by combining and manipulating photo's in Photoshop:-

https://tutsplus.com/tutorial/mountain-fortress/

 

After seeing the video I guess it's true what is often said that Photoshop was really intended for graphic artists and the printing trade rather than photographers who would hardly use but a small proportion of it's functions!

Edited October 22, 2013 by DaveW

[ChrisLumix]

You can of course use similar effects in stills photography if you have the patience and artistic skills to either put real people or models in front of creative backgrounds. If you were a Photoshop Guru you could even do it by combining and manipulating photo's in Photoshop:-

https://tutsplus.com/tutorial/mountain-fortress/

 

After seeing the video I guess it's true what is often said that Photoshop was really intended for graphic artists and the printing trade rather than photographers who would hardly use but a small proportion of it's functions!

 

I think that's very true. Photoshop started way back in the late 80s, long before digital photography was a practical reality, and also long before computers had storage capacities for digital media. It was for graphic artists and illustrators though 'bending' existing images (including photos, e.g. from scans) was also soon part of it.

 

If I shot RAW I would probably get Aperture, as long as it included a way to select portions of an image for processing separately. But I would still keep Elements, as how else can you add text to one of your own photos to create a personalised Xmas card!!