Force Perspective Photography

Photography has always been my passion. I am always fan of shooting style that only requires creativity not the one where you’ll be needing expensive gears. There’s lot of  style you can do using a cheap camera  and creativity. Street, Levitation, light painting and force perspective photography to name a few

Today I will discuss about force perspective photography. There’s lot of tips in the internet about this type of shooting. The appealing aspect of this photography is that you don’t need specific type of viewers to appreciate your intent.

Force perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. This type of photography does not require you to have a DSLR or some L series and primes lenses. You can always do this using a cheap or old cellphone camera and some friends that is willing to pose for you. You can even do this by yourself in some instances.  Almost everybody loves to be photograph so I am assuming having  friends to be your model is not that difficult. You can view some sample of this type of photography Here

I first encountered  this type of photography when I was in college on a tour in Mayon  VolcanoOur tour guide/slash photographer make us posed as if we were climbing the volcano. I do not have copy of that picture and during that time I do not have any idea of the  photographic style. The output of this style looked easy but believe me. It is also tiresome and require lots of patience. I had tried this many times but I find the sunset to be the easiest subject especially during summer where the sun was round during sunset. Here’s some of my take on this type of photography.