Toy Story

There is a fun photo technique that is all the rage on the net right now. It's taking photographs and making them look like fake models by making them look like close-up macro shots. Furthering the look is playing with the curves to make them bright and plastic looking. Now, does this have any really important applications? No... Is it art? Probably not... but it's really easy to do and lots of fun.

There are several websites that explain how to do this. Receding Hairline is such a site.

I haven't gone out and specifically shot for this type of image so you could probably do a better job than I did, simply by making sure your shots were taken from a higher vantage point, which would, of course, help with the illusion, as we would tend to look at fake models on some sort of table and standing up.

Still these were definitely fun

A picture of a train ... geez, how I wish I had the whole caboose.. too bad, maybe another time.



This one is of a small house in the mining village. It's cool to know what it looks like and to see it looking almost plastic.



The last one is of these funny contraptions in front of the old mine. I'm sure someone who has worked in a mine could tell me what they actually are as I have no idea. What I think works about them, even though they are pretty much eye-level is the fact that they are freshly painted.. which helps with illusion of them not being real.




One thing is for sure, I'm most certainly going to run a "Bonus Contest" on Worth 1000 very soon, just because I think it's a fun thing for everyone to try.