Making Of ... "Dices" by Elathan
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Many of you wondered how Escher's (or, as xesquez wrote: Reutervärd's) triangle was photographed.
So here I unveil how I made it.
Indeed, it's a bit tricky, and you have to be very accurate when positioning the tripod and adjusting the focus. As you may know, I don't like digital cameras that much, but here I had to use it. You may have to take dozens of photos (and of course you have to build the structure again and again), load them into photoshop and check by combining them. If it doesn't fit: try again and re-adjust the angle. I think I took around 30 photos to get it.
Take your time, and be very accurate when you build the structure. I constructed a small pattern of wood to get the right angles correctly and to prevent the dices from being shifted.
The rest is simple: just create a layer mask as shown in the pic and then combine again.
So, it's no witchcraft or wizardry. I hope to see some of your ideas in the future. Have fun.
As always: thanks for viewing and commenting.
So here I unveil how I made it.
Indeed, it's a bit tricky, and you have to be very accurate when positioning the tripod and adjusting the focus. As you may know, I don't like digital cameras that much, but here I had to use it. You may have to take dozens of photos (and of course you have to build the structure again and again), load them into photoshop and check by combining them. If it doesn't fit: try again and re-adjust the angle. I think I took around 30 photos to get it.
Take your time, and be very accurate when you build the structure. I constructed a small pattern of wood to get the right angles correctly and to prevent the dices from being shifted.
The rest is simple: just create a layer mask as shown in the pic and then combine again.
So, it's no witchcraft or wizardry. I hope to see some of your ideas in the future. Have fun.
As always: thanks for viewing and commenting.
Comments (10)
BAR-CODE
THNX for the little tut .. i was wondering how you did it :}
jeroni
Fantastic work
LovelyPoetess
I'm so glad you explained, it was driving me batty tring to figure out how it was done : )
Fred255
Brilliant the first post was giving me a head ache trying to work it out!
toddaking
Excellent! Todd
OrphanedSoul
Really cool!
smantha
excellent. :)
koosievantutte
thanks for the explanation.
durleybeachbum
Amazing!!!Thankyou.
picantilla
Fantastic!!!