How to Achieve Photo Lavitation

May 25, 2012 - know-how, Others - Tagged: Photo

You might have seen photos of people (like super yogis!) floating in the air. It is cool but quite difficult (or rather, impossible…)

One day, our blogger Mr. H comes up with a good idea to make himself levitate in his photos. Look at him >> see the lower right corner! He really looks like floating on air, doesn’t he? He took a lot of photos, so let’s take a look at them 😉

Here we go!

Boing boiiiiiing!

Easy! Easy!

Maybe you’re wondering why the size of these photos are so small. Of course, there is a reason… That’s because once you see these in a large size, the illusion is easy to spot LOL.

See?

Not such a difficult trick at all 😉

Just in case you haven’t figured out yet, let me expose it!

1) Prepare a piece of black fabric, and cut out a section in the shape of your silhouette (or in a plain circle).

2) Place the shadow-simulating cloth on the ground.

3) Take a few steps backward from the shadow and strike a pose as if you are levitating (or jumping high).

In manga, you might have seen shadows like these. When you draw a person a bit behind the shadow, he looks like he’s caught in mid-air! This is the trick.