Examples of Forced Perspective Photography

There is a technique used in photography that removes a certain allowance of perspective from the person looking at the image.  This is forced perspective photography.  In the image, you can use certain spans of distance to distort the actual size of certain objects or people in the image by removing things that allow for a point of reference.  Here are 9 forced perspective photography examples.

In this forced perspective illusion, one girl sits further forward, while another appears to be dancing on her hand.

In this photography, it looks like a woman is holding a tree, when really she is over 100 feet away.

Even though it looks like this man is holding he up by one hand, she is perfectly fine since the image utilized the forced perspective of the camera operator.

Something this simple can be done with the right eye and a little patience.  A man is holding one of the replica souvenir cars at a car sculpture to create a forced perspective illusion.

While at first glance this might seem like a normal picture, further investigation shows something is not right.  A changed angle makes this man look like he’s standing horizontally in this forced perspective illusion.

Here, it look like a man is drinking an entire waterfall.

With the right amount of spacing, anyone can create these types of forced perspective illusions.

While it may look like someone it standing on another persons foot, forced perspective photography has done it again.

Forced perspective photography has been around for a relatively long time.  Here, you can see an older shot of a man standing taller than the Eiffel Tower.

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