Our next GoToMeeting (GTM) is scheduled for Thursday, July 21st at 6:00 PM Central.  That is 7:00 Eastern, 5:00 Mountain, 4:00 Pacific, 1:00 Hawaiian.  Expect a run time of one or two hours.   These sessions are always BYOB. 

Until further notice, there will be a meeting every Thursday at 6:00pm CST.

The Agenda

We don't want to take up an entire meeting again, but we'll review what has been done in the last week with HTML formatting and try to answer any questions that have come up. Let's give this no more than a half-hour. 

The challenge is finally out, so I thought we could talk about forced perspective and perhaps collaborate to help people with ideas, if that's needed. 

Branding is always on the docket.  Part of the discussion is figuring out exactly what the group currently stands for and what it should be.  If we don't get to this because of the other two items, that is OK.

Joining the Meeting

The link and meeting ID are located in the group discussion tab (click the Newsvine Photographers tab directly above the comments section), or you may e-mail me for the information.  Detailed instructions for joining the meeting are located here.

I racked my brain on several different ideas, but decided on this one. Trying to make the car look like a model.

Per Wikipedia:

"Forced perspective is a technique that employs optical illusion to make an object appear farther away, closer, larger or smaller than it actually is. It is used primarily in photography, film-making and architecture. It manipulates human-visual perception through the use of scaled objects and the correlation between them and the vantage point of the spectator or camera."

Thanks to js-445607 and this article for the inspiration behind this challenge.  In particular, it was the photograph with the street light keeping the sun from setting.  Because this challenge was published so late and to allow everyone extra execution time, a new challenge won't come out until September. 

Searching the internets for additional examples brings a lot of common applications:  capturing the sun, dangling the Taj Mahal from fingertips, licking gigantic cherries on spoons, fixing the Tower of Pisa, holding miniature Eiffel towers, and cool and creative stuff like this.  Check out this forced perspective group on Flickr for additional examples. 

Articles should also contain the tag: forced-perspective, and please provide a link to your submissions in this article.

This article is an activity of Newsvine Photographers. Participating members develop photo essays on a monthly theme, using existing images, or by shooting new ones.

Per group guidelines, all photographs are original.

Last month's theme was Music. Those articles can be viewed here.

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