Fifteen-year-old photographer Zev Hoover creates incredibly imaginative miniature scenes that evoke a sense of magic in the viewer.
Hoover, who first became interested in photography at age eight, photographs the backgrounds at their normal-size; then he shrinks his subjects down to pint-size. For continuity purposes, Hoover always tries to shoot at the same location; when this isn't feasible, he attempts to correlate the lighting and shadows as best he can. Finally, he digitally blends aspects from many different photographs to create a final image that offers the viewer a taste of the surreal.
Hoover enjoys composing these miniature scenes because, as he says, you see a "totally different world when you are thinking from the point of view of something smaller than you."
Magical Miniature Photography
Zev Hoover Looks at Things From an Alternate Point of View
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