Levitated Apple

In the last post I showed a couple of quick trials I did using the forced perspective idea and I indicated that I should have tried levitating the apple. Below I have shown the levitated apple and I think you'll agree that it looks better than the other photo.
I have put both pictures below so that it is easier to compare them.




I think the difficulty of forced perspective photos is finding objects to take pictures of that will make the audience step back and think.
For instance the reason the apple works in the picture above is purely because we as an audience know instinctively that apples are much bigger than the one shown. Therefore as an experimentation it is difficult to think of objects that are really going to give the wow factor. The only picture in the previous blog post that I feel gives that wow factor is the giant person and the tiny person in the room, we instinctively know that the picture looks real but the size of the people is all wrong. The car on the driveway scenario could potentially be just that, a standard sized car on the driveway, the only thing that gives it away to the audience is that the car looks like it's made of plastic and is moulded.
The man holding the giant can doesn't look real it looks like what it is a man standing a long way in front of the object in his hand, it is so easy for a picture to just looks wrong whether it be the subject matter or set. The picture below is of a friend of mine and we were trying to make it look like he was holding on to the Burj, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work because of the angle and grasp of the hand in comparison to where the camera is.



I think what I'm trying to say about this subject is that it is good when we know that something couldn't possibly be and yet the photograph in front of us appears very real and convincing, which leads us to the other area of study, the composite photograph.