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04-JAN-2010 GeraldH

Making The Impossible Possible

Homage to M. C. Escher

Canon EOS 5D Mark II
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Canon Image Challenge07-Jan-2010 08:32
Outstanding. I love it. Jim H.
Canon Image Challenge06-Jan-2010 08:18
Thank you, Ed. M.C.Escher was a Dutch graphic artist. He created several lithographs showing impossible constructions, based on this triangle. More information here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher
-Gerald
Canon Image Challenge05-Jan-2010 23:21
Great job Gerald. You put much effort and thought into this image.
By the way, who is M.C. Escher? - Ed Lindquist
Canon Image Challenge05-Jan-2010 21:10
Thanks, Iso, Dt, Jano, Lydia and Nico.

Dt, give it a try, it is not as difficult as the following narration may sound (I hope the description will not spoil the secret of shots like this, but why make a secret out of it?):

For the first of two shots, I arranged nine of the dice on the ground plate in a rectangular shape, then I used three more dice to built a tower atop of the right end of the lower arm. Then, the camera (on a tripod) had to be adjusted to a position where, in the viewfinder, the topmost dice of the tower concealed the most distant dice of the other arm on the ground, with the topmost surfaces of the arm and the tower at the same level and the right edges aligned with each other (perhaps the only step requiring some patience).

Then I removed two dice from the tower and took a second shot from exactly the same camera position. The two shots were combined in PS (I wish a shot like this would be possible without PS). The second shot was placed as a layer atop of the background. After hiding this layer completely by using a black layer mask, the two rightmost dice were brougt to front (this way replacing the top of the tower) by painting on the mask with a white brush. That's it.

Gerald
jnconradie05-Jan-2010 09:40
Astounding!!! I cannot believe that I am seeing this. Wow. Compliments and regards Nico
Canon Image Challenge05-Jan-2010 04:08
Oh! Well now... THAT's cool! ~Lydia
Canon Image Challenge05-Jan-2010 01:58
What an eye twister! This is impossibly brilliant! jano
Canon Image Challenge04-Jan-2010 23:36
Very well done! I'm going to have to try this! -dtallakson
iso320004-Jan-2010 22:31
Oooh. Clever