The thinking person’s favorite magician picks up Notre Dame. Teller’s patribiography also includes an FP photo.
Forced Perspective examples
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(mostly) good examples of the forced perspective optical technique
Teller enjoys forced perspective (the technique)
Monday, September 14th, 2009More FP
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009Richard Wiseman posted a link to this relatively convincing forced perspective photo.
Hungering for more forced perspective?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009As you might expect, there’s a Flickr pool.
I mention this in part because Google seems to have decided we’re evil, and I’m hoping to persuade their algorithms otherwise by getting back to our roots.
Don't bother with the comments
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009A video of a forced perspective mechanism devised by Adelbert Ames. Likely to make your head hurt, I found it helpful to focus on the pipe to see that the whole contraption is simply rotating.
Website plug with bonus FP
Friday, April 10th, 2009The third honorable mention in the Toothpaste for Dinner 2005 T-Shirt Contest is some no-nonsense forced perspective.
It's been a while since we've had any FP here
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008So I guess this will have to do.
I can only hope it's really difficult
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006So many of the Flickr images tagged with forced perspective are so very unconvincing that it makes me want to make better images. Most common problem: insufficient depth of field, leaving things in unmatched focus. Another dead giveaway: uneven lighting.
I suspect the only cameras I have available have inadequate control over aperture to create convincing illusions.
Cars in FP
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006Some of these forced perspective photos of cars are good, though very few of them make any attempt to sustain the illusion.
More actual forced perspective photography
Friday, April 9th, 2004In a bid to get better google cred after the weekend of the 403, here are some of my favorite web pages featuring our namesake technique:
- a homemade Doctor Who with dolls shot in a park. very lovely (the section on forced perspective is pretty far down the page)
- A titanic hand
- G.I. Joe vs Aliens
There’s a lot of stuff out there that isn’t FP, isn’t convincing, or is talking about an episode of an SF tv show I won’t name here because I have nothing useful to offer anybody looking for information about it, even though it does star a guy who shows up on Xena from time to time.
Living up to the name
Wednesday, September 24th, 2003Just because we so seldom include any genuine forced perspective content. The link is from the "Most phallic building in the world" contest.
