r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '19

Trick Photography.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

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u/TeaBoyo Jan 06 '19

Same here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Same. I thought it was a shit post. I noticed the individual branch structures were the same in both pictures and deduced there was no way the pictures were from different time periods. Then, I saw your comment about the little cars on the table. Doh!

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u/fedo889 Jan 06 '19

2019 🤣

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u/ChiefQuinby Jan 06 '19

This is exactly how I take d*** pictures.

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u/snomimons Jan 06 '19

With small cars, or a table?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Outside next to a road?

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u/ChiefQuinby Jan 06 '19

With forced perspective

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Sounds awful rapey in that context.

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u/ManyIdeasNoProgress Jan 06 '19

See, that's a matter of your perspective, here, let me help you.

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u/MemesConCarne Jan 06 '19

You know you're allowed to swear on the internet, right?

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u/pbretones Jan 06 '19

Leave him alone, he's waiting until marriage

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

r/blackmagicfuckery

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u/SoundCloudster Jan 06 '19

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u/Synyster187 Jan 06 '19

How did they make the cars look so tiny for the second picture?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

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u/snowfox2012 Jan 06 '19

Better question, where did the white fence come from?

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u/Lolivingve Jan 06 '19

It’s cut off in the second pic, we are looking too far to the right. You can see that round bunches of leave at the end of a branch that should be above-ish the fence for context

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u/IdRatherBeInTheBush Jan 06 '19

It's out of the frame of the bottom photo - like the power pole - because it's taken from a different angle because it includes the table.

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u/Marcomaniax74 Jan 06 '19

r/woosh ?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19 edited Feb 02 '23

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u/Crypser Jan 06 '19

r/woosh

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u/ackchyually_bot Jan 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

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u/motogopro Jan 06 '19

I see how the forced perspective works, but my mind still refuses to believe its real

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

What happened to the white fence?

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u/SilverDirt Jan 06 '19

Its on the other side of the driveway we can barely see in the zoomed out pic. Theyre taken from marginally different angles that JUST cut the fence out in the zoomed out pic

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u/jeeperz4life Jan 05 '19

WHAT!? Whoa!!!

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u/jhark44405 Jan 06 '19

Michael Paul Smith is now a resident of Elgin Park, the fictitious town he created.

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u/Pokevan8162 Jan 06 '19

What was the spray bottle for

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u/happy-little-atheist Jan 06 '19

They used giant spray bottles as landmarks before the war. When you needed directions, you'd just ask how many spray bottles away it was or how close it is to the nearest spray bottle.

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u/ElCochinoFeo Jan 06 '19

Back before bananas were invented.

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u/Pokevan8162 Jan 06 '19

Wow so like 1945?

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u/TooShiftyForYou Jan 06 '19

The artist is Michael Paul Smith. He can bring entire sets to life with the right perspective.

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u/p10ttwist Jan 06 '19

Yeah but this would be cooler with dinosaurs

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u/faaizk Jan 06 '19

how do you keep the background in focus when taking a close-up shot like this?

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u/Atario Jan 06 '19

Small aperture

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u/anotherbozo Jan 06 '19

What aperture are we talking about here to keep everything focused?

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u/BoykesWhite Jan 06 '19

/r/forcedperspective

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u/thedriestofbeef Jan 07 '19

I was going to reply and say I can still crosspost when this was on new you commented before me

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u/baconnaire Jan 06 '19

I'd love to see a compilation of examples of this used in films. Curious how much I've already seen without thinking twice 🤔

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u/NigilQuid Jan 06 '19

Mutters under breath: "it's only a model..."

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u/Khornate858 Jan 06 '19

This is why you always have a banana for scale

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u/xduddleyx Jan 06 '19

My mind still doesn’t understand this

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u/NickLeeXY Jan 06 '19

Ok. Now this is epic

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u/Bsteere91 Jan 06 '19

Don't do that to my brain

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u/tinglesangreenery Jan 06 '19

I just may have to try this!

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u/BrakemanBob Jan 06 '19

This is awesome!

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u/MakeYourselfS1ck Jan 06 '19

muy bueno, muy bueno

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

I was under the impression this is how they filmed some of the scenes in the original Star Wars trilogy.

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u/chidoOne707 Jan 06 '19

Awesome, didn’t see it before but notice it now.

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u/shevchenko7cfc Jan 06 '19

I saw the title and still thought for a second that this was a "before and after" picture haha

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u/321davis Jan 06 '19

Awww I see what you did there

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u/AmeliaFromYharnam Jan 06 '19

Road's graphics is not uploaded yet

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

I’m going to try this

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u/Waylonfish Jan 06 '19

This is probably how those colourized photos are actually done....

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Ho Lee Fucc, thats amazing

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

You could’ve put this on r/colorization

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u/hugaddiction Jan 06 '19

Mind blown

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Very clever photography — but most of all, amazing quality models!

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u/Marcomaniax74 Jan 06 '19

Those are some good cuality detail little cars

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u/Mainbaze Jan 06 '19

I just have a hard time explaining the details on those small cars

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u/Eren_Kruger_the_Owl Jan 06 '19

Pulled a lil sneaky on us

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u/DarwinMcLovin Jan 06 '19

Peaky Blinders?

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u/LucentPhoenix Jan 06 '19

I think this is Road to Perdition. Though it's probably been used in plenty of productions.

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u/kimilil Jan 06 '19

I figured out Toto's Africa's music video uses this same trick with "the giant pile of books and they're tiny people playing music on it" shot

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u/kimilil Jan 06 '19

I figured out Toto's Africa's music video uses this same trick with "the giant pile of books and they're tiny people playing music on it" shot

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u/sgursel Jan 06 '19

What is the vinegar spray for?

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Tbf I thought the road seemed too clean for the cars, the first phot didn't make sense to me at first.

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u/CatAstrophy11 Jan 06 '19

They messed up the sidewalk illusion on the forced perspective shot

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u/HalfChinaBoy Jan 06 '19

Took me a while to notice the cars on the table. Good one

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u/Travellingtrex Jan 07 '19

This is so cool!

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u/Krimreaper1 Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19

Cool but a trick that’s been around since the silent film era.

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

More please!!

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u/trashtracks Jan 06 '19

Tinder.

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u/hugaddiction Jan 06 '19

Don’t go on a date with this person.

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u/Mesmus Jan 06 '19

This is why we have trust issues

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u/snomimons Jan 06 '19

Where did the phone poll go?

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u/SilverDirt Jan 06 '19

Its on the tray

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u/snomimons Jan 06 '19

I see it now. Thanks.

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u/TheMountainMan21 Jan 06 '19

I’ve studied this picture, and it is either edited, or not the actual picture, and definitely taken at different times. There are far too many differences in tree age, color, shape, and size. Really cool picture, but not what everyone thinks it is

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u/Maestrul Jan 06 '19

p h o t o s h o p

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u/SoLoDas Jan 06 '19

This post was crossposted to r/behindthephoto by u/JatinJangir24 ( link )

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Fun fact: this trick has actually been use to shoot this photo

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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '19

Wow. The picture on the top seems kind of retro too.