Having fun with Forced Perspective

For this project, we chose a toy which we placed closer to the camera. Then we got our classmates to stand much farther back in the distance so they appeared the same size as our toy.

Andy pets Elephant trunk

Andy runs from dinosaur

Andy is afraid of lion

Derrick pushes squash

We used the smallest aperture on our lens. In this case it was f36. We focused our camera not on the toy or the person, but somewhere in between.

The depth-of-field or what is commonly as the zone of sharpness, made both the toy and the person appear sharp and therefore believable.

We also posed our person to either look straight ahead or posed their hands as if they were interacting with the toy. to make it more realistic and believable.