Food as Landscapes
I ran across these food photographs featuring miniature people placed to resemble a scene. (I'm still not sure if the people were computer generated — while the ice-cream guy looks pretty real, the lighting on the bikers doesn’t seem quite realistic.)
Anyhow, I really enjoyed the photography there; the narrow depth of field (common to most of the photos along the left side of the page) really made me ask myself whether I’d have any chance at duplicating that type of focus effect. After some further thought, though, I realized that my camera probably can’t reproduce a low enough aperture for that kind of thing.
I have little doubt that some computer manipulations were involved in the images — after all, even the most strict in-camera digital photographer generally does some color balance adjustments here and there. Still, I can’t help but wonder if some of the depth of field effects were applied digitally after the fact. Even if that was the case, though, I wouldn’t hold it against the photographer; all the shots came out really well.
The original site is here:
http://mapage.noos.fr/minimiam/go.htm
I posted about this awhile back. Maybe you should subscribe to my blog ;-)
I doubt there is any computer trickery, I think it’s all old school.
Ah, thanks for the clarification, Jeremy. And, in my defense, I am subscribed to your blog, but I haven’t read back to September in the archives ;).
i like this stuff, i reckon its just and extension tube on a hassleblad