Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Verisimilitude: Initial Ideas

Make us believe we are seeing something we are not.

Thoughts:
  • Optical Illusions - street graffiti, trompe de l'oiel
  • Miniatures that appear to be real
  • Impossibilities - eg. walking through walls, someone bleeding blue blood (photorealism)
  • Fake newspaper with bizarre story, different date because newspapers contain fact not opinion
  • Imaginary landscapes - created with surfaces of existing things such as tree bark that out of context looks alien - mixed media
  • Mirror tricks
  • Make a mask of my own face but aged
  • Put everyday objects of today on museum style stands to make viewer think they are rare

After some research into these, I discovered Tilt Shift Photography which is where a real scene is photographed and then edited to appear as if it is a miniature model.
Here are some examples of others artists work:




I found a photo I took over the Summer of a landscape and tried the technique myself:



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