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Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso by Katsuhiro Ohkuchi

Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso by Katsuhiro Ohkuchi is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ibhaso Legolide le-A' Design Award in Uyilo lokuFota kunye nokuLungisa iiFoto Competition Category.


IgolideUkufota· 2021

Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso

by Katsuhiro Ohkuchi

Client: Katsuhiro Ohkuchi

Ibhaso Legolide le-A' Design Award Winner in Ukufota Category

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The Design

About Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso

I-Miniature Size Landscape luluhlu lwemifanekiso olubonisa imiboniso emincinci yendalo ngokungathi ngamazwe amakhulu. Iingca, iimoss, iintyatyambo nezinye izityalo ezikhula ezinyaweni zabahamba ngeenyawo ziba yindawo yemiboniso. Umntwana omfutshane (idwarf) ongangeintshi enye ubude uhamba kuyo yonke imiboniso, kwaye wonke umbono uyilwe ngokungathi ubonwa ngamehlo aloo dwarf. Le mifanekiso yenziwe ngelensi ye-macro ebanzi, i-focus stacking ukuze kufumaneke ukugxila okunzulu, kunye ne-linear, i-occlusive kunye ne-aerial perspective. Injongo kukukhumbuza ngamazwe acingelweyo obuntwana nokukhuthaza ukukhathalela indalo.

The Recognition

About the Ibhaso Legolide le-A' Design Award

Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso ngumphumeleli weIbhaso Legolide le-A' Design Award, ukuqatshelwa okuhlonitshwayo kakhulu okunikwa imiyilo yeklasi yokuqala, ephawulekayo nentle. Abaphumeleleyo beGolide ziimveliso ezintsha kakhulu, ezinombono ongaphaya nezikhazimlayo ezibonisa ubuchule, ubulumko nobuchule babayili bazo. Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso iyathenjwa ukuba ibe yimveliso edunyiswe kakhulu, ebeka umkhwa nekumgangatho wesikhumbuzo enikela ixabiso elingazange libonwe. Lo myilo uphumeleleyo weIbhaso Legolide le-A' Design Award yiprojekthi emangalisayo nehlonelwayo eluncedo kakhulu kwaye inyusa imida yobugcisa, inzululwazi, uyilo kunye nobuchwephesha. Miniature Size Landscape Uluhlu Lwemifanekiso idala iimvakalelo ezinzulu zonqweno, ivusa umdla, ikhuthaza ukuyila kwaye iyasikhwebela.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Landscape with grasses, mosses, flowers and other plants that looks a small world are spread at our feet.
Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi takes photos to make it look like a big world by using trick of the eye.
1 inch tall dwarf go on a journey around the small world.
A dwarf’s eyes are the imaginary world of their childhood.
Dimensions & Packaging
CAMERA
NIKON D3000 5000 series
Olympus OMD EM1 mark2
Application
Adobe photoshopCC
Tags
nature, photography, landscape, micro, macro, flower, fantasy, miniature, travel, japan
Production Technology
Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi's works that takes recreate photos by small dwarf's eyes incorporate of wide macro lens, deep focus by focus stacking, linear perspective, occlusive perspective, aerial perspective and deja vu effect. Those are important elements that humans perceive size. He came up with this photography technique ten years ago, and he is still studying it.
Design Challenge
Shooting methods have continued to change due to the evolution of hardware and software as a result of shooting for 10 years.
Therefore, he always tried to keep up to date with the latest information.
This research has availability such as shooting videos and shooting in a studio imitating a huge space, and he plan to continue this research in the future.
Research
His works are taken fantastic photos from familiar and common landscape. He takes photos to make a small world look like a big world by using trick of the eye. Then, when they see his works, they raise awareness of environmental issues by knowing of a beautiful familiar place and remember their special childhood of adventuring in a little world.
Inspiration
Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi was trying to find impressive landscapes that anybody have never seen when he was a student.
One day, he remembered the imaginary world of his childhood that a very small dwarf adventure in the park. He thought Landscapes that he was looking for are already exists close people. He thought take photos a world by small dwarf's eyes at the same time.
Then, he have been studying the method for take recreate photos by their eyes.
Project Duration
This work started in 2010 and published on Behance from 2020.
Operation Flow
Please remember the imaginary world of childhood that adults have forgotten. He hopes people become conscious of a beautiful small world are spread at feet, and be more kind to nature even just a little. He is sure that no one will throw trash on the world after seeing his work.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Katsuhiro Ohkuchi , 2010.
Image Credits
Image #1 Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi, Miniature Size Landscape, 2010.
Image #2 Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi, Miniature Size Landscape, 2012.
Image #3 Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi, Miniature Size Landscape, 2017.
Image #4 Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi, Miniature Size Landscape, 2018.
Image #5 Photographer Katsuhiro Ohkuchi, Miniature Size Landscape, 2018.

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