Fantastic Forced Perspective Photographs by Michael Paul Smith

"It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen."~ John Wooden 

Michael Paul Smith has an eye for detail that's for sure. These wonderful images are made using highly detailed models, a $250 point-and-shoot camera and a great eye for perspective.

For over 25 years Michael has been building delightfully detailed scenes of mid-20th century America using 1/24 models.

'I’m creating a mood, something familiar in the viewer’s mind,' Smith told the New York Times.
The reason a cheap and cheery point-and-shoot works well for forced perspective photography is because of the very small sensors cheaper compact cameras tend to have. The small sensor facilitates a much greater depth of field, much greater than that of a full frame sensor. The smaller the sensor the easier to get everything in sharp focus.  So dust off your old point and shoot and give it a try!

 To see the photographs and purchase prints, visit Michael's site at SmugMug.



























Michael Paul Smith on set.

Michael Paul Smith's childhood home in 1/24th scale

Photographs of Extraordinary Miniature Models Depicting Famous Artists' Studios

Brooklyn-based artist Joe Fig created a series of remarkable miniature dioramas, entitled Inside the Painter's Studio, that show artists at work in their own studios.  These extremely well photographed images give life and do justice to these highly detailed dioramas.


Jackson Pollock




Henri Matisse


Willem de Kooning


Matthew Ritchie


Chuck Close


Ross Bleckner


Inka Essenhigh


Malcolm Morley


Brancusi


Will Cotton


Joe Fig ( Self-Portrait)

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Stunning Miniature Sets by Photographer Paolo Ventura

Paolo Ventura, 1968, Italy, studied at the Accademia di Bella Arti di Brera in Milan and currently lives and works in New York. He envisioned scenes he wanted to photograph, but these situations could not be found anymore. Therefore he started to construct entire sets by hand. He creates miniature buildings, trees and other objects. At the same time he constructs all the figures himself, making tiny clothes for the little men and women that he uses as actors in his scenes to tell his narrative and magical stories. In 2006 he released his series War Souvenir as a monograph and in 2009 the book Winter Stories came out. In the last five years Paolo has exhibited extensively throughout the USA and Europe. The following images come from the series Civil War, Winter Stories and War Souvenir.
[via 500 photogaphers.com]