88 Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography
Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, filmmaking and architecture. It manipulates human visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera.
There are many ways to attack photography and some are much more expensive than others. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Stunning collection of Forced Perspective Photography and Pictures taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages. You may want to explore further works of the photographers we’ve featured below.
When it comes to inspiration then there is no limitation on resources. Photography is one of the key sources of inspiration for some of our past work. Here we talking about photography of Specific form named as “Forced Perspective Photography” which I find usually amaze me. If you know how to shoot a photo then you can also change something fairly simple to something creative or abstract or otherwise more artistic. You don’t need any special skills for taking such shots. It all depends on the environment and perfect timing.
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Brilliant Examples of Forced Perspective Photography
Photography can serve as a nice source of inspiration. We designers, can derive inspiration from almost everything around, and this collection can fulfills your Forced Perspective Photography Inspiration related needs as the creativity in shooting photos is somewhat hot trend now days. We can promise you that when you start browsing them farther in details it will surely refresh your memory.
Further Resources!
- Forced Perspective | Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- The Forced Perspective Flickr Pool
- Forced Perspective Flickr Pool
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Love some of these! I’ve experimented like this in the past- its good fun!
Great pictures! thanks for sharing.
cool….
So, so incredibly cool! …All of ’em!
Great images! Thanks. Inspires me to go out and try something like this myself.
But are these all true ‘false perspective’? Or have some been manipulated in an image-editing program? The sinking house for example. How was that done?
Yeah I like the photoshop skills
Very lovely.
…. I didn’t add the instantshift site as a url for me, it was already there…. now that’s out of the way…. ~~~~> I love these awesome photo manipulations immensely… thanks iShift !!
brilliant ideas, superb klick and some are funny tooooooooooooooooo…. :)
TFS
awesome pic’s
Great stuff. Love the creative perspectives in the photos. I like all the photos though a few of them is sort of repetitive in creativity.
Thanks,
Rafi
GraphicsFuel.com
@Alistair Scott – These images are not photoshopped. Please visit this link and then this link. You just need to rotate your camera a bit to take that shot.
really professional photographs you sharing. thanks
Thanks for posting. I like the subtle images most, some great ideas overall.
These were fun! Some of the best I’ve seen!
Some of them are cool but some of them are exaggerated :)
Theese are so creative and many of them so perfectly executed, very nice collection
Nice foto! I cant think of such concepts (( I respect these people
Great selection … it’s incredible how a great pgoto can be done just rotating a bit the camera and having some imagination :)
Awesome collection. Very inspiring. Thanks for share this wonderful post. :)
Great selecction!
awesome pic’s great work.
Absolutely brilliant photos!
Great effects its looks great. Great job
SOme are photo shopped
well the last one seems photoshopped,
as the guy in the distance his lighting doesnt seem to fit his surrounding,
and he is sharp where his surroundings are out of focus.
This is absolutely brilliant…. Hats off..
Awesome collection really great post.
Best Regards
Rupam {@xhobdo }
Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Someone please tell me what’s going on in photo number 8. I don’t understand!!!
Its called Photoshop :)
Sorry, but some of these are clearly photoshopped. Many of the ones that aren’t are quite good, but don’t be fooled into believing that they’re all done solely with forced perspective.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9599423@N03/1711841443/ for instance – either those are model cars, or it’s photoshopped there is no way you could otherwise have his hand IN FRONT of one of the cars while the car itself is in front of his body.
This one as well is photoshopped: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27987720@N02/2933383930/ Look at the difference in focus between the man in the distance’s legs and the grass that he is standing on. The depth of focus does not change just for one person and not for everyone else around him.
wowwwwwwww… fentastic fotos. really i its very nice.
Simply Genius :)
Thanks for using my photo (Jesus and the airplane) and providing a link to my site. It’s been used many times without a link or any credit, so I genuinely appreciate your efforts.
Beautiful captures.
See this -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lppjunior/4359978605/
These are amazing! Great collection :D
Brilliant!
Awesome ! Fun and nice.
ha ha ha :) nice collection
thanks
Great post !! Thanks for sharing,I enjoyed looking the photography!
@charles I think only one car is a model
I thought the same about the second pic
@shay I don’t get it either
very nice! gonna try that myself
These are really great, and I believe that most if not all of them are NOT photoshopped. If you think about it, you can figure out how they were done.
My only thought is that not all of these are forced perspective.. the definition given is:
“Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is.”
But some of these are just taken on a different angle, without playing with the actual perspective at all – like the first picture. Those people are in proper perspective with the pool, each other and their surroundings. Just the picture is rotated so it looks like they are sitting up and the water is somehow a wall of sorts. There are a few others like this. They’re still great pictures and well done, but nothing in them appears farther away, closer, larger or smaller than they actually are.
So either the definition given is not the full definition, or a few of these pictures are not forced perspective.
@Charles wrote: “Sorry, but some of these are clearly photoshopped. Many of the ones that aren’t are quite good, but don’t be fooled into believing that they’re all done solely with forced perspective. http://www.flickr.com/photos/9599423@N03/1711841443/ for instance – either those are model cars, or it’s photoshopped there is no way you could otherwise have his hand IN FRONT of one of the cars while the car itself is in front of his body.”
I think the the car in front is a model, but the rest are real. Using the model one is quite clever, because it makes the illusion stronger.
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Nice Collection, some Pictures are really great!
Some of those are sheer genious. Really like the ones trick-shooting the sun. Just today i started experimenting with forced perspective myself. Tried to recreate the hands of God and Adam, with the sun bursting inbetween the index fingers. Cool…!
Hahah really funny!
MOST are shopped.
I.E. The Monty Python “I Will Crush Your Head”!
The Disney movie, “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” used this technique extensively throughout the film. Amazing effects.
how weird
awesome pics mate!
WOW! amazing jaw dropping shots.. excellent post! :)
This was awesome to look at!! Some interesting ideas for my portfolio!!
Very creative shots. Some are really hard to figure out.
Great collection! I’ve sent the link to frinds and family. They all was entertained, share the joy :)
thankx 4 sharin’
it’s real big inspiration@@
Eye and mind boggling photos but are all good to view!
stunning!!!! enjoyed watching the whole lot :)
All the shots are amazing. Sometimes, we really have to think out of the box, and look at the world through a different perspective and a good lense.
The last one is mine.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/27987720@N02/2933383930/
Everyone is correct. It is real and it is photoshopped. I took the photo as it is and added a gradiant blur to the top/distant subject of the photo to blur the trees more. This takes as much time and knowhow as taking the photo and should be appreciated as well.
loli love the one from cedar point.
Incredible Pics. i almost forgot about that trick.
some of these are really amazing!
i like this fun with friends
awesome !!!
Were these photos shoped? A few of them are great, but the most of them are unoriginal.
Nice Collection ,
Thank you for sharing ..
Awesome
Thank you for collecting such wonderful designs in one platform
Thanks for sharing this info.. Useful one. [..URL..] My blog
Here is my “Catching the Cloud-Fountain”-Picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevenfivemedia/4987662489/
MashaAllah… amazing..
Thanks for these.. its a pleasure to view the creativity that people have – very impressed and inspired!
Great selection … it’s incredible how a great pgoto can be done just rotating a bit the camera and having some imagination :)
wow… really amaizing
hahaha nice collection – I enjoyed every single pic. :D
car pic took me a bit as well.. couldnt figure out how the body disappeared… closer examination.. its a concrete fence around a parking lot… one is a toy car.. ( the closest ) and second one is distant in the lot… really nicely done. Considering they had to see the possibility then plan the shot. Some.. could just be caught as it happened…
Whoops! Amazing shoots
awsome collection, nice imagination :) love it
Nice One….smart collections…
A lot of inspiration, thank you
Greetingd Ben
RealVisionPhotos
Not only original but also well performed, indeed awesome.
Fantastic examples!! Great stuff!! Some are so creative and unique I’m in awe…so inspiring!
Nice pictures.They’re really brilliant.
great photos. Thank you.
Awesome..so cool.Thanks
so nice ideas for photographers that how can be creative. hahaha so nice.
Wow superb images… will take like these in future
Thank you great photos ;)
It’s very funny! ))
Amazing photos, inspires me more, thanks
Amazing! ILoveit)
Some of these are straight-up mind bending, while others didn’t come out so good. Most of these are just tourist shots, but there are a few really unique ones.
nice collection daniel, but some are unbelievable…hehe..
I am not much of a professional photographer, but the pics above are really awesome and seem to be really easy to click too. Thanks for such great examples.. :)
Awesome post, nice colection.
wow its super becouse i never know this pictures
Great collection!i ts super
Really good pictures, Some wern’t as good but it exited me. Keep them cumming. Made me have to Blurt cum out in front of everyone. was a bit embarrasing because they don’t understand my deep Passion for Photography
Well Kumar what I think is that tilting a bit the camera doesn’t sounds too good means that won’t be enough to capture such brilliant pictures, I’ve ever seen, there must have been some editing, if not, then it’s an outstanding art
I think its the real perfect photography…great work dude to collect such collection for us
Nice and cool stuff collecting these. super cool very nice blog
Wow what great perspective pictures. I really like them all. I like the ones with the Pisa tower.
Stunning photos! :D So cool!
Wow Impressive photos!Great collection
Brilliant work. Concept photography at its best. :)
Wonderful collection. Really brilliant job. Thank you very much for sharing with us
My favorite is the one where it looks like the subject is bigger than the thing in the foreground. That picture was excellent.
Nice and cool collections
The giant pigeon is fantastic! Nice collection.
Blurt cum out in front of everyone. was a bit embarrasing because they don’t understand my deep Passion for Photography
These are some of great photos that i have seen. Thanks for sharing.
Superb photos as usual !this makes me want to buy a DSLR :)
hahaha,so cool, very creative ideas.
Nice! These tips can be quite useful! Will be using them!!
very creative work..awesome photography..!
I will always give a nice thrust look in to you from my bookmark feed. Coffee I don’t actually comment and don’t like to spend time in typing the comment. But here I have to do this because this deserves a good like.
Really like your blog ,because are very interesting articles here ,thanks for that .I will return later for other items.
This is really great, i love it and will recommend your site to friends.
Ispiring indeed.Thanks
Many of these simply don’t work because the two objects are not in the same depth of field. I.e the man picking up the blurry golf ball. Saying that, some are amazing.
Cool photo!!!! i like it!!!
Nice but the problem is that none are one shoot all are photoshoped :(
These are awesome. Some of them will mess with your head a little!
TTHHIISSSS ISSSSS COOOOOOLLLLL(: im excited to take pictures like thissss
Brilliant, lots of great ideas here. It will be fun to go out and replicate a few of these. Is the guy in #8 falling?
Stunning pictures! These are really great!
Amazing or intressting Picssssssssssssss :)
Amazing Clicks and Tips. Thank you
Amazing photos… you are really talented. Good job!
I really love the way you discuss this kind of topic.;:~`”
This is my first visit in this blog, and I’m impressed a lot. Before this – I’ve visited many blogs, but didn’t get quality information from them. But this blog is different; I’ve got some unique information from this. It’s really impressive. I want to thanks to the webmaster of this blog.
Wow! These photos are truly brilliant, amazing, and hilarious! keeps me in awe up to now. May I share them on Facebook?
Thats the best photography I’ve ever seen…….hats off…….grea8888888888;)
Cool photos. Trying some of them next time we are out.
cool phottos
Cool photos. Trying some of them next time we are out.
I wanna try it ……coool and amazing …………
This list is just perfect! Will be my new source for finding inspiration. So many really cool examples of perspective photography.
Amazing collection.. I really like the hadouken. very cool ^_^
Great collection. Thanks for the share.
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it’s so beauti…, have a nice day
this is
Very nice and remarkable… thanks!!!
this is really great overall just wanted to say thanks overall
Wow…really amazing one’s. All of them are cool and some shows superb creativity present in the photographer. You made my day with this one, really!
Thanks!
liked it alot!!! amasing content you have posted here thanks for sharing
very cute & exclusive.
So many of these are not…….
Who are the artist? Why are they not being credited?
Photography are fantastic and diplomatic and I can not explain for kind of picture but what reason they are published it is not clear. What is the creative picture is! How they build I have not any idea ?????????????????
all i can say is wow!!! what a nice shots thank u for sharing ur technique, i’m so amazed.:)
Such as great selection of pictures, awesome research! Chapeau bas….as we say in french ;-)
Those are some amazing picture. Hats off to the photographers. Those pictures just show the intelligence of the photographers. But I wonder about two pictures where an old man is floating and another one where one man looks bigger than the girl to his right, in a box.
Thanks
A picture is worth a thousand words, but your BIG hand picture could be worth $10,000.
There is a forced perspective photo contest at the Cheez-It facebook page where they are looking for photos that make your hand look huge.
Wonderful, I can have some try.
I am speechless..these pictures filled my mind with such beautiful visions, the fun is finding words to describe them to myself wonderful that you for putting this together and sending it to the world
Lol, hilarious images. :P
Really Aweasom
that really Awesome .
Interesting collection. Some of these images depict the elegance of forced perspective photography.
Some of these have to be Photoshopped. There is no way some of these are real. The one that blows my mind is #30 from the bottom. With the 2 cars. Is this simply a small miniature set or am I just not seeing this correctly?
oh my God, these pictures are awesome. This is really nice for photographic learning. thanks a lot for sharing this post.
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That pic with old man which looks like floating — i just don’t understand how he do it…
these were very awesome…i was learning in school today how perspective can have really mind bending effects~i think its WONDERful what some people think to do…like the falling house or how they were trying to hold up the leaning tower amazing things..these were fun to look at..but if you want to see something funny rather than interresting go to youtube and watch epic fails…HALARIOUS!!~1~16~13
~kelsey thompson<3
It’s kind of funny how some some of these photos are clearly taken in auto mode.
Am I so wrong for hating on automatic photography?
I love the photos.
Its cool
Note that the “guy falling” photo should be removed from this list – he admits he used photoshop to get that to happen. So it’s just photoshop, not any forced perspective.
I feel this blog is very well organized and is quite interesting. I really want to join this kind of events.Thanks for the post.
Woow.. Nice Collection, bro!
These are some good pictures. I like them a lot (:
I like these images.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow what a comprehensive list, packed full of really cool photography ideas. Thanks for sharing.
There are a few good ons found by asking google images for “buddas butterball”
forgot to say thanks for such a great collection of photos—I love the sandbox
A profoundly simple and original conception
What a Brilliant Photography. Thinking always Make Different for Professional Photographer. Thanks for Sharing.
I tried it many times but failed, But your tips and concept are different, may be this time i can make it, thanks for share.
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Wow incredible image collection. Thanks for eye catching image.
Thank you for the information, very useful
Thanks for making the honest attempt to speak about this. I believe very robust approximately it and want to read more. If it OK, as you gain more in depth wisdom, would you thoughts adding extra articles similar to this one with additional information? It might be extremely useful and useful for me and my friends.
This is really entertaining. Few pictures looks so real, that it makes us forget that it is forced perspective photography.
Wow! Amazing Photography. Worth for appreciate.
Wow.. Awesome wonderful photography Thanks for sharing
Nice post.
yea
good pics
i like so things, thank you for me enjoy
Thanks, this is such a great helpful article.
I love the photoshop skills y’all have. It surprised me that it cold be photoshopped that well
Wonderful website. I appreciate your post
wow this is so cool
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It is all cool
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