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?
Some of them are cool but some of them are exaggerated
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.
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@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.
It was really awesome post! Thanks a lot for sharing.
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Wow! Those photos are extremely impressive. Most of the pics are hilarious. Perfect illusions. Loved watching them. But I would love to see an illusion with an online game character, like those Final Fantasy [URL] maybe, without having it photoshopped. That’ll be totally cool!
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!
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!
Absolutely brilliant photos!
awesome pic’s great work.
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Great effects its looks great. Great job
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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..
Beautiful captures.
See this -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/lppjunior/4359978605/
Awesome collection really great post.
Best Regards
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Good stuff. Thanks for sharing.
Someone please tell me what’s going on in photo number 8. I don’t understand!!!
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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
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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.
While I agree that some of these look Photoshopped (my own photo has been accused of such – not true) I think some of you are missing the spirit. They are photos and they have forced perspective. Trying to prove how clever and astute you are by pointing out possible PS usage isn’t helping here. Why not just enjoy the spirit of the photos?
These are amazing! Great collection
Very nice examples of Forced Perspective Photography. I really liked all the pics.
Brilliant!
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Great post !! Thanks for sharing,I enjoyed looking the photography!
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Awesome ! Fun and nice.
ha ha ha
nice collection
thanks
@charles I think only one car is a model
I thought the same about the second pic
@shay I don’t get it either
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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!
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The Disney movie, “Darby O’Gill and the Little People” used this technique extensively throughout the film. Amazing effects.
MOST are shopped.
I.E. The Monty Python “I Will Crush Your Head”!
how weird
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awesome pics mate!
Very creative shots. Some are really hard to figure out.
WOW! amazing jaw dropping shots.. excellent post!
This was awesome to look at!! Some interesting ideas for my portfolio!!
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Great collection! I’ve sent the link to frinds and family. They all was entertained, share the joy
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.
thankx 4 sharin’
it’s real big inspiration@@
Eye and mind boggling photos but are all good to view!
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Awesome post! good work my friend! thanks a lot for sharing.
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.
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lots of fun. rarely do they bore me!
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some of these are really amazing!
i like this fun with friends
Nice Collection ,
Thank you for sharing ..
awesome !!!
Were these photos shoped? A few of them are great, but the most of them are unoriginal.
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Awesome
Thank you for collecting such wonderful designs in one platform
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Here is my “Catching the Cloud-Fountain”-Picture
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sevenfivemedia/4987662489/
MashaAllah… amazing..
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Thanks for these.. its a pleasure to view the creativity that people have – very impressed and inspired!
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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
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Fantastic photos. Brilliant work!
hahaha nice collection – I enjoyed every single pic.
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…
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Whoops! Amazing shoots
awsome collection, nice imagination
love it
Nice One….smart collections…
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A lot of inspiration, thank you
Greetingd Ben
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Not only original but also well performed, indeed awesome.
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Fantastic examples!! Great stuff!! Some are so creative and unique I’m in awe…so inspiring!
Nice pictures.They’re really brilliant.
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great photos. Thank you.
Awesome..so cool.Thanks
Great Photography!
so nice ideas for photographers that how can be creative. hahaha so nice.
Wow superb images… will take like these in future
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Thank you great photos
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It’s very funny! ))
Amazing photos, inspires me more, thanks
Amazing! ILoveit)
That is really such a great stuff, its amazing
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.
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wow its super becouse i never know this pictures
Great collection!i ts super
very nice post keep up the good work buddy
very nice collection….i agree with you photography is one of the main source of inspiration…….
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
Great and Funny images,
Today we published a blog post about one cool Forced Perspective Photography trick – Link
Hoping you will enjoy a video!
Regards and thanks!
Wow what great perspective pictures. I really like them all. I like the ones with the Pisa tower.
Stunning photos!
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.
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Superb photos as usual !this makes me want to buy a DSLR
hahaha,so cool, very creative ideas.
There are some absolutely brilliant designs for a really interesting selection of communities. The design is pretty cool too! More of these smaller interesting examples would be great,
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.
wow…breathtaking shots ! The very first pic is amazing ! Tweeting this now
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
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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.;:~`”
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Wow! These photos are truly brilliant, amazing, and hilarious! keeps me in awe up to now. May I share them on Facebook?
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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.