Today’s Warm Up: A Photo Series Featuring an Oversized Dachsund

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/06/a-photo-series-featuring-an-oversized-dachshund-and-her-owner-adventuring-around-brooklyn/

After viewing the photos contained in the link above, answer the following questions using complete sentences.

How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?

What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?

31 Replies to “Today’s Warm Up: A Photo Series Featuring an Oversized Dachsund”

  1. I think, how he got the dog so big in the photo’s were and how he was able to manipulate them was him trying to “blow up” an object in order to seem like the dog is bigger than it really is.

  2. The photographer makes a tiny dog huge. He makes the dog seem as big as a tall human. He made the dog look huge with photoshop and kept everything else in its normal size. I get the idea to not make everything realistic in my own work and experiment with photoshop.

  3. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big? Makes the dog big by making it a human size.

  4. He makes the dog huge like a mammoth. He probably used photoshop and photoshopped the dog into every photo. I could probably use this in my work by making objects that i love bigger than me because most of the things i love mean so much to me and mean the world to me. Such as basketball. I don’t control the sport it controls me.

  5. He plays with scale and proportion by making the dog huge compared to everything else. He manipulated the images to make the dog look so big by taking a photo of the dog and a photo of him and the location and photoshopping the dog into the photo. The ideas I get that involve doing that are things that relate to me and making them surround me and be huge.

  6. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? by making the dog size super BIG. How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big? by using photo shop and enlarging the original dog picture.

    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this? making things out of proportion from the original photo and creating something interesting.

  7. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion?by making his small dog huge How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?By go into photoshop and enlarging the dog
    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?
    making rocks large and birds and other things that are super small

  8. The photographer used Photoshop to make the dog look bigger than she really is. He probably used a solid background behind the dog with matching light and took the photo then photo shopped her in with the owner.

  9. Mitch Boyer makes his dog look so much bigger than what it really is, he made his dog as big as Clifford because of her massive personality. By using a green screen he was able to take pictures of his dog and make her bigger on the photo and photo shop her in which made her look bigger than what she actually was.

  10. It looks like the photography used Photoshop to make the dog look bigger than what it really is. I think he used a solid background behind the dog and tried to match the light to make it look even within his pictures.

  11. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion?
    he blew them up and make them much bigger.
    How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?
    he manipulated the dog in the photo to make the image much better

  12. The photographer plays with proportion by making the dog much bigger than the human using Photoshop. The photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog look big by using Photoshop, they take a photo of the person then take a closeup photo of the dog, and overlap them cutting out the space around the dog. I think it would be funny to make my pug the same size at my black lab, or the opposite.

  13. The photographer made his tiny dog into an enormous dog. He used Photoshop to make the dog look bigger. He wanted to make this children’s book to reality.

  14. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion?
    He makes the dog huge without making him pixolated
    How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?
    Expounding the size of the dog I think
    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?
    I think it looks cool but i dont like editing pictures like that I guess, I like real things

  15. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? Takes pictures of the small dog and combines the photo with his portrait and photo shops the dog bigger than him to fit the dogs personality. How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?Takes a close up shot of the dog and combines it with a semi distant photo of the photographer to make the dog look bigger.

    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this? Combine pictures of close up flowers and combine them with a subject walking down a path of oversize flowers.

  16. They made the dog look realistic but really big
    they used Photoshop to make him look so big
    i would like to try to do this to some of my pictures cause i like how looks

  17. The photographer makes his tiny dachshund the size of a mammoth. I believe that the photographer used Photoshop to add the dog in every other photo to make the dog look so big.The ideas I get for my own work is to find things that I love or are not as big to make them look more large.

  18. The photographer makes the dog bigger. He used Photoshop to help him make the dog bigger. I can use this in my work by putting more creativity.

  19. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion?
    He blows up the dog bigger than human size to show his bold personality.
    How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?
    he took two separate images and put them together.
    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?
    Maybe play with the sizing to give more emphasis on something

  20. i like how the do pops out and makes the dog look bigger and makes other things look small and the main thing big and i like the picture

  21. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion? How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?

    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?

    I think the proportion was balanced. The dog wasn’t too overwhelming. The photographer used tools to make the dog big like a green screen and had a very good looking background. I get new ideas by thinking outside the box and making my pictures stand out more

  22. How does the photographer in this photo series play with scale and proportion?
    He edited to make the dog look huge.
    How do you think the photographer was able to manipulate the image so that the dog looks so big?
    He used Photoshop to make the dog appear bigger.

    What ideas do you get for your own work after looking at this?
    I could use this as an idea to use Photoshop to create anything like he did with his dog.

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