just a couple more pictures......

I took a couple more pictures today, and this evening I will be putting together my book order.  I have decided to split the book into three sections, firstly will be the tilt-shift images, and this section will be entitled 'Little People'.  Next will be the model people, and this section will be named 'Big World'.  The third section will be the dictionary images and, as yet, it has no name.  I have toyed with the idea of calling it something dictionary related eg. Lexicon, but I'm not quite sure.

Anyhow, while I ponder that one, here are the last few images for the book....

more pictures and how to present the finished article

More Pictures

Today I played around with more of the dictionary pictures, but this time I used a full sized book as the tiny one was much to tricky and kept closing on my models, the poor things were being squashed!

 

How to present the finished article

I have two plans for my final product and I'm stepping away from the 'boring' book.  One will remain a secret until hand in and the other I will share with you now.

I plan to print my pictures on two-and-a-half inch squares and present them in a box.  The lid of the box contains a magnifying viewer, and has also been decorated in keeping with my theme.  See what you think:

Slinkachu

Back in a February post I mentioned Slinkachu.  His was the first work I had seen using the tiny OO/HO gauge people and I loved it.

His Little People project began in 2006.  It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which he places, and leaves, on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project.  He says 'The street-based side of my work plays with the notion of surprise and I aim to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. The scenes I set up, more evident through the photography, and the titles I give these scenes aim to reflect the loneliness and melancholy of living in a big city, almost being lost and overwhelmed. But underneath this, there is always some humour. I want people to be able to empathise with the tiny people in my works'.

The High Life

 

Spilt Milk

These two are of a creation called 'Accident'.  In all of his Little People work Slinkachu shows a close shot as well as a shot or two showing the 'bigger picture' (pun intended!).  I particularly like this piece.

 

Supermarket Sweep!

Finally got my supermarket shot today.  I have wanted an empty car park to take a long shot with the supermarket in the background, but in the end the shot I think that I'll use is the closer one.
It was going to mean a Sunday morning shoot, before 9am, to avoid cars and the chance of being run over.  However, Easter Sunday saw them closed all day, meaning no early start (hurrah) and the chance to get the pictures.
As I already said, I am leaning towards the closer shot, but any thoughts/suggestions would be most welcome.

The last photo is to give you an idea of the size of these models, they are tiny, and very light.  The artist and his easel had to be super-glued down as they kept blowing over!

more little people photos

Two more shots today, really happy with these!

More little people, and an experiment

 Here are a couple of the little people pictures for my book, I am tackling the more tricky ones later this week.

In my wanderings I found a little miniature English-French dictionary, amusingly enough it is also called Lilliput dictionary.  I have played around with some of my little people and created the images below.  I am pondering putting them into the book also and would appreciate any feedback.