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I've seen this before... it's uncanny. And the shots are all taken with fisheye lenses and at angles because that's how he designs the images - to be seen as you're walking up to them. If you were to look down on them, they'd be elongated.
I can't comprehend how he does this.
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Well, regular sidewalk chalk doesn't have any colors darker than "misty blue" or something like that.
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quote:A lens with an extremely wide angle of view (as much as 180°) and considerable barrel distortion (straight lines at the edges of a scene appear-pear to curve around the center of the image).
It's basically the effect you would get by looking through a fishbowl, the effect you see here.
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Th same way the make writing on the roads. In a bike lane, there is a picture of a bike only it is very distorted. But for a passing car, it looks like a normal bike. Well except that it is in all white and has a stick figure on it.
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Reading through the site kat linked to, I came across the following:
quote:Q: What kind of chalks are you using?
A: My “chalks” are actually handmade pastels which are stronger and more permanent than commercial products. When I first started street painting I used commercial chalks and pastels. I soon found the chalks to be too dusty and constantly blowing away on the street. The pastels were more permanent, but very costly as I would use a couple hundred sticks per picture. It didn't take long before I began experimenting and making my own pastels with pure pigments and binder.
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