DOF, FL and perception can fool the brain...

Seymore

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puzzledpaul

Stunning job all round - beautifully made models and photographed in a way that does them justice.

Even tho' I'm not a 'petrol head' the car model that - to me - really is 'the' Canon in this area of life is this one ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxYRa0pqxlw

(I first saw this a few yrs ago on the Beeb when we still had a TV - and thought it was brilliant then)


Re forced perspective - obviously well used in the LOTR pics (amongst others) and the nearest I've ever got to any similar situation was when taking pics of this (and other models) recently.

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=235568

The difference between (the pics of) this model and others not built to 1/12 scale was noticeable because of the horizon position relative to model size - but there's a limit to how low / close to to water level can be achieved when using a 500/f4 (without waterproof housing:))

One big factor that car model pics don't have to contend with tho - the fact that RW water droplet size can't be scaled

pp