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              January 13, 2013
              Chris Lambeth

              Birds Eye View Room Portraits by Menno Aden

              This is a first for this style of indoor photography. Usually you see nice clean HDR shots of rooms or office space for real estate agents. Menno Aden takes a whole different approach on this genre, one many people never really see.

              Using a camera mounted to the middle of the ceiling, Menno captures a view of locations never really seen before. This gives the images a unique perspective on an ordinary living space or storefront. I think this would be a pretty cool way to start getting a better idea for planning room layouts. Definitely a different look that I haven’t seen before.


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              What are your thoughts on these? Think it is something that could catch on?

              via – enpundit.com

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              • Mike_Kelley

                Cool – would like to see his rig for this. Hole in the ceiling? Suction cups? Studio for some of them?

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bram-Berkien/640803000 Bram Berkien

                Really very incredibly totally awesome! Guy took the advice ‘change perspective’ to new heights. No pun intended.

              • http://zsuttonphoto.com/ Zach Sutton Photography

                Great images…

                But, none of them are as cool at this photograph….
                http://i.imgur.com/hhRG5.jpg

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_6GTHNBZ3E6XRTPFRLOROHAPOKE James

                I wouldn’t mind watching a BTS video for this ..

              • SQPhotography

                You ask, we deliver http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=db85xdl5k3Q#!

                PS: Spoof in the article above, he doesn’t use “a camera mounted to the middle of the ceiling”

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=754554855 Edd Carlile

                A monopod, 35-50mm lens and a whole lot of patience and dedication= extremely interesting images.
                Excellent!

              • http://www.facebook.com/mefju Maciej Ostaszewski

                he is not a first one:

                http://raster.art.pl/galeria/artysci/smaga/plan/smaga_plan.htm

                AFAIK, Jan Smaga and Aneta Grzeszykowska used Manfrotto autopole

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1161657585 Ryan Cooper

                Cool concept but I don’t really see this as very artistic photography. He had an interesting and creative idea to do the first one and since then he is just replicating a technical recipe that really doesn’t require any creative vision. He isn’t cleverly lighting these photos, he isn’t doing any creative styling in photoshop. The composition is always exactly the same. He effectively makes zero creative decisions. You could program a robot to make these images and it would end up with virtually the exact same final images as he does in a given room.

                Zach Sutton in one of the earlier comments posted an example of a similar concept done in a way where the photographer makes a very creatively imagined image from the same perspective.

              • http://www.facebook.com/regan.shorter Regan Shorter

                The copy on this is a little redundant… “never really” and “seen before” are repeated a lot :)

                These photos are amazing though! I like that he didn’t just choose “beautiful” spaces; I enjoy seeing the dirtier rooms too. 

              • http://rigandkeel.com/ Tanner Wendell Stewart

                These are so awesome!!! such a different perspective… i love them

              • http://rigandkeel.com/ Tanner Wendell Stewart

                i disagree with you man… these are great

              • Jos B

                This reminds me a bit of birds-eye-view scenes in the graphic novel ‘Born Again’ by artist David Mazzuchelli (from the late 1980s)  as in linked thumbnail below.

              • http://www.facebook.com/johnxmzzhang John Zhang

                I would like to create something like this of my room however the challenge with my room is that the ceilings are slanted at angles, is there a way around that? 

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