Shooting scale models

Shooting scale models looks like a lot of fun:

 

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This of course expands to dioramas and so on. I've seen photos of miniature scenes where the photographer used imitation snow, and it's very convincing.

it's very convincing.

Hunh?

dioramas

Can you have a life size diorama? This is depicting "The Coventry Blitz" a life size display in the Coventry Transport Museum.

I certainly think that photographing scale models can be fun, useful or even sometimes powerful. One of the many exhibitions at my local Photo Festival 4 years ago included a series of photos by Dutch photographer Sjoerd Knibbeler entitled "Lunacy". In this series, he photographed models of self-made models of "spacecraft" that might reach the moon. The most impressive things about his photos to me were that 1) he'd designed and made the models himself 2) from the photos, wit as impossible to determine a sense of scale and 3) that they all had the same style.

 

I think using scal models is great. Just pointing out that there's a range of 'purposes' and 'talent' out there. For anyone interested, an interview with Sjoerd Knibbeler (with English subtitles) is shown below.

 

Edited July 19, 2020 by mikemorrell

There’s a guy right here, Doug Johnson who has been posting photos of scale model cars, arranging the perspective so that it’s possible to believe they’re real cars in actual spaces.

I gotta say Id have never thought his shots are of model cars as they do look very convincing.

 

Critique this please, part 2

 

Then there was this guy: Michael Paul Smith who took shooting models to a whole other level. He invented his own little fantasy town, Elgin Park- shooting scale model cars in real-life scenes using forced perspective. When he died his website said he had “moved to Elgin Park”.

Photographer Creates Lifelike Images of American Streets Using Toy Car Models and Forced Perspective

 

Michael Paul Smith

good work on that creation of his. My question is, where did he get all the model kits and accessories? Havent ever seen interior furniture