After reading Ailsa's post about the photographer who used printed backgrounds to make his pictures look better
As far as backgrounds go, a nature photographer I know has an interesting technique. For example, he might want to photograph poppies in a field of corn, but knows that the various out-of-focus poppies in the background will be a distraction. He finds a section of the field without any poppies, throws it completely out of focus, photographs it, then prints it up quite big, mounts the image on card and uses it as a portable background in the field. He has dozens of these things and has worked out how to use them extremely convincingly - you would never, ever know they weren't the real thing. Sounds naff, but it really works! (Of course, he's probably shooting digital now, in which case I doubt he needs to worry about it any more!)
I was tempted to ask a question: has any of you ever resorted to elaborate tricks to make "trick" photos?
And I'm not talking about using Photoshop, that would be much too simple!
I'm talking about everything from elaborate darkroom manipulations to using posters, props and such in order to make things look like what they're not.
To start things off, I decided to bring you a picture of my last trip to Australia.
