Illusion Photography- Idea 3

Over the last few days, I've been thinking of some ideas for the illusional photography which will be incorporated to the homepage. Whether the neon style, or newly added "vintage" style, I feel the photography will form a nice basis towards the design of our pages.

I've researched some fantastic photographers who have used this type of style with their work, some work is shown below.

I found this image simply by typing "illusional" photography into Google. I like the way the artist has used a specific style in the sketched image, to portray the history of the image. Perhaps this could be done very similarly with the vintage style, by printing out a Photoshopped image with dreamy, cloudy effects, and holding it up in front of a Nottingham scene. I like this idea, as Nottingham based institutions tend to go for the "modern, bright and vivid" look the days.

 Here's another example in a more suitable style.

Another way of doing this would be to go for a more comical approach. After consulting a few of my wittier friends over a drink they came up with the idea of making the character in the photographs larger than the world. This could perhaps be considered for literal meaning and portray the aim of Nottingham media academy. Some ideas we came up with were to have a person leaning against a large building, but from a distance so that they appear to dwarf the structure. We also thought about including other people, for example a hand in the foreground of the image, with people standing upon the hand in the background. Some sketches of the ideas can be seen below....

And some comical Illusional photography I found...

Another way I have thought about photographs for the site, is to include a panoramic view of Nottingham, from a high point, perhaps the castle. By creating a large panoramic view over the city skyline, it could perhaps be an alternate way of creating a map of the cities media buildings, in a innovative and fresh manner. Heres a panaramic view of London which I took from Will Pearson photography.