Soon I've found out there is a whole series of images like this...
'Peatheadz' by Zach Rose (Buffalo NY)
In his hilarious series 'Petheadz', he takes DSLR portraits of people's pets and mashes them up with portraits of their owners by cleverly holding the camera in the foreground.
"Holding a DLSR in one hand with a pet photo on the LCD viewfinder, he carefully places the camera over the owner’s body to simulate an animal’s head over the pet owner’s shoulders, and then snaps a picture. What you get is cleverly matched pet and owner hybrid image.He has relatively simple gear using an IPhone, and a DSLR with a 50mm lens."
http://www.exposureguide.com/inspiration/hybrid-photo-series-petheadz-features-pets-and-their-owners/
As I considered about the technique, Zach uses the method of forced perspective to fit pets and owners together in one photo. BUT he not just doing it with one camera, (as you can do forced perspective with only one camera) he is using two different digital camera, so that's kind of another technique that can be explored. Although the method looks kind of complicated, because it's an image in an image photo, actually it isn't as hard as it looks. You just have to find the right distance and height to match up the bodies and take a quick shot. Still his idea is very hilarious and so influential to me.
The variety of themes are so funny however something disturbs me a little bit...In my opinion, you have to be careful about the background as I don't think the one's that have closer patterns and different colours work well for the overall image. It's obvious that you have to zoom in, take a closer image of the dog then you do with the owner and that means you will end up getting closer image of the background as well that will not match with the second picture. So I think the examples under works better, with a plane, same coloured, bigger patterned background.
Forced Perspective
Forced perspective is a photographic illusion generally used to make two or more objects seem to be a different size than their actual size. It's made by a single lens of the camera.
Types: - Making a main subject larger or smaller, merging subjects, bending gravity.
Taking a forced perspective photo is not difficult and doesn’t require any special skills. All you need to have is creativity, a camera, a willing accomplice, the perfect setting and timing, the patience to choreograph your trick and mostly, imagination. As you can see in the following examples, you can try forced-perspective photography while travelling, at your backyard or at home. In some cases, it’s just being in the right place in the right time. If you have more of such photographs, do share them with us please.
As I considered about the technique, Zach uses the method of forced perspective to fit pets and owners together in one photo. BUT he not just doing it with one camera, (as you can do forced perspective with only one camera) he is using two different digital camera, so that's kind of another technique that can be explored. Although the method looks kind of complicated, because it's an image in an image photo, actually it isn't as hard as it looks. You just have to find the right distance and height to match up the bodies and take a quick shot. Still his idea is very hilarious and so influential to me.
The variety of themes are so funny however something disturbs me a little bit...In my opinion, you have to be careful about the background as I don't think the one's that have closer patterns and different colours work well for the overall image. It's obvious that you have to zoom in, take a closer image of the dog then you do with the owner and that means you will end up getting closer image of the background as well that will not match with the second picture. So I think the examples under works better, with a plane, same coloured, bigger patterned background.
Forced Perspective
Forced perspective is a photographic illusion generally used to make two or more objects seem to be a different size than their actual size. It's made by a single lens of the camera.
Types: - Making a main subject larger or smaller, merging subjects, bending gravity.
Taking a forced perspective photo is not difficult and doesn’t require any special skills. All you need to have is creativity, a camera, a willing accomplice, the perfect setting and timing, the patience to choreograph your trick and mostly, imagination. As you can see in the following examples, you can try forced-perspective photography while travelling, at your backyard or at home. In some cases, it’s just being in the right place in the right time. If you have more of such photographs, do share them with us please.
My example of using two digital lens based image maker...
My example of forced perspective...
Although these images aren't including dogs I was still able to use 2 cameras successfully to create an image and use one camera to create a forced perspective effect on another image.
Another creative pet photographer work can be seen on this website:
Article headline: Photographer shoots heartwarming portraits of her pet dogs with comical expressions and costumes.
http://www.exposureguide.com/inspiration/photographer-shoots-heartwarming-portraits-of-his-pet-dogs-with-comical-expressions-and-costumes/
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