Diorama // Making a scene

First sample of working with images cut from photographs, re-staging then setting up a diorama for rephotographing as a 2D image. This will take a bit more work to make it look good, though it is an interesting avenue to explore. Like working in real-life photoshop.
Like the Serial Cut pop-ups, and perhaps a bit like Megan Jenkinson's Under the Aegis (The Virtues)

Tools for the Imagination

Still loving the tiny model town at Pegasus, I decided to go one further after discovering this online tool which enables you to create your own Mike-Hunter-styles miniatures.
Tilt-shift miniature faking is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model. By distorting the focus of the photo, you can simulate the shallow depth of field normally associated with macro lenses making the scene seem tiny and model-like.
My ones aren't too exciting yet, I just used a couple of snapshots I had already. If you have the right image, it can look quite convincing.






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The making of things

Playing round, constructing scenes and altering depth of perception.

A few new experiments

So I thought I had the whole panoramic in-camera match up thing sorted after my last attempt, but something went very wrong here, and I have a collection of weird layered images.. thought I'd put them up anyway.


The first panoramic from the film which is as-shot...



Crazy ghosting effects...


Interesting colour overlaps...


Portrait and landscape confusion.


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