Comments on: Birds Eye View Room Portraits by Menno Aden

By: John Zhang

John Zhang — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:14:00 +0000

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?

By: Jos B

Jos B — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:45:00 +0000

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.

By: Tanner Wendell Stewart

Tanner Wendell Stewart — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:38:00 +0000

i disagree with you man… these are great

By: Tanner Wendell Stewart

Tanner Wendell Stewart — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:37:00 +0000

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

By: Regan Shorter

Regan Shorter — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:28:00 +0000

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.

By: Ryan Cooper

Ryan Cooper — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 00:18:00 +0000

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.

By: Maciej Ostaszewski

Maciej Ostaszewski — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 07:30:00 +0000

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

By: Edd Carlile

Edd Carlile — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 02:13:00 +0000

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

By: SQPhotography

SQPhotography — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:15:00 +0000

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”

By: James

James — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:39:00 +0000

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