Mark, I really, really like the results. And I agree, the lens camera could never provide the feeling of your images. Its purpose is to come as close as possible to the 'real' thing! Funny that they spend so much efforts transforming the 'real thing' so that it looks like 'something else' that is palatable and that can be easily commercialized...!
I beleive that Chris Peregoy from this list does similar things as you (rephotographing cutouts with a pinhole). But then he blows the images up on transparent lith film and hangs them from the ceiling. This is the stuff he showed at Why Pinhole? in Rochester. Cheers, Guy mark boucher wrote: > hi all, thanks for the positive feedback on the images. > guy, you had it right as far as how they were done. the figures are "normal" > photos that are cut out, placed in miniature environments then > re-photographed with the pinhole. i tried doing the same thing with a lens > camera but the results were awful. flat and uninteresting. the pinhole > camera has the ability to transform what it sees into something mysterious > and unified. > btw- a "diorama" is basically a model, or a miniature environment. > mark >
