In our recent ‘Perspective’ competition, Zane Llewellyn took first place in Grade A, for the third time in a row this year, with the clever image (left).

This is how he made the image:

When I think of perspective, I immediately think of the “Small, Far Away” scene in Fr. Ted.

I really wanted to use this as my inspiration, but unfortunately there weren’t any cows out in March and I was also missing a priest costume.

Plan B…

The first step in taking this photo was to move all the furniture out of the way, as this was the only floor that would look like a wall.

I took the photo in landscape so it would be in portrait when rotated which would help to emphasise the vertical lines and make it more believable. I positioned the table and chair while checking the framing, once I was happy with the basic composition I set up the books, picture and lamp. I only thought afterwards that I should have tried turning the lamp on!

I had to handhold the camera as I was backed up into the corner to try and get everything into frame, I tried the flash directly and bouncing it off the ceiling but the dark floor was proving difficult. So, I ended up using a white umbrella just out of shot.

I tried to coax my dog into the photo, but she didn’t want anything to do with it, so I grabbed the neighbours cat!

Then the fun began, the cat was walking around wondering what was going on, while I shot a handful of photos. My model son?, my son the model played a blinder and he really made the shot. So a big thanks & some biscuits to him for that 🙂

I used the following settings for the final shot,

24mm 1/180s @ f/8 ISO100

Flash – ETTL mode shooting through a white umbrella.