In my group were the following students: Kris, Eldon, Noah, and Rylen. Due to a college presentation, I was unable to do much with the group other than the last shot, where I posed for it.
I have not done force perspective photography at all prior to this assignment. The teaser images for this assignment were somewhat odd to be honest, as they seemed silly in practice and didn't really tell a "story" since the focus is instantly on what the process was to achieve the photo instead of the photo itself (of course, not every photo has to tell a dramatic story but I just like photos that do). Some of them were interesting concepts, though, and I have an idea of what I'd like to do for some of my independent photos.
In this photo, Kris is eating a scaled up apple. Rylen is holding said apple on the right. In order to magnify it's size, Kris stood further back than Rylen in relation to the camera.
In this photo, Kris and Rylen are pushing against a clothespin. The hands on the bottom are "fighting" against this push, in a way.
In this photo, Rylen and I posed on top of a bench with the eraser below. This eraser acts as a floating platform in some aspects (Eldon's blog has a better version of this in action, I just like the pose I made here).
Probably the most challenging part of shooting these perspective photos was just lining everything up. Conceptually, all of the photos are easy to come up with since all of our ideas are relatively basic and don't require too much preparation. Setting up the camera is easy as well, though, of course, there are still limitations even when shooting with the smallest aperture on our lens (f/22). Posing people can be quite awkward too, because they also have to "imagine" the object in play. In addition, holding up certain objects and keeping them stable was a huge struggle.
Awareness from this group practice can assist me in giving me an idea of what one must do and not do when creating forced perspective photography, as well as bringing more objects. I can already think of multiple ways to fix the stabilization issues (use a chair or some object to hold it for example; like a tripod).
Overall, I think our group could have improved on time management since we didn't have much time to retake our shots. Indecisiveness is a likely factor (there's a difference between ensuring high quality and simply being too picky).
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