Photo Assignment #2 - Forced Perspective

Photo Assignment #2

The camera can "fool the eye", even if the image has not been manipulated in any way. In this exercise, you will intentionally try to fool the viewer with "camera tricks" involving distance, angle, or perspective. This type of photography is referred to as "Forced Perspective".

The main (but not all) ways of fooling people with this technique include:

1) making the main subject larger
2) making the main subject smaller
3) merging different objects
4) bending or defying gravity by rotating the picture or using odd angles

In this assignment, you are to submit two pictures using forced perspective (using two different methods that are listed above).

For ideas on forced perspective, Google "forced perspective" or "forced perspective photography" and observe the results.

Here is the link to the presentation I made in class.

Format for submission:
Since you will be submitting (2) images, you will use this format:

If your name is John Doe, the first image will be named Doe-John-02-01.jpg, and the second images will be named Doe-John-02-02.jpg

I look forward to seeing what you will come up with. Images are due by Midnight Thursday, September 29th.