What on earth is a fakescape? It’s an image that looks like a landscape scene, but it’s not really a landscape at all… it’s all fake! We created our fakescape in the comfort of our own home using some black paper, an LED light and some flour. Ours happened to be self-raising flour, but it makes no difference at all what type of flour you use. And you don’t have to stick to just flour –be experimental with the ingredients you build your fakescape out of. Icing sugar could be just as effective or mashed potato could also work well (let it cool first if you are sculpting with your hands).
For the photography part of the project, you’ll need a tripod and a lens with a mid-range focal length. A 24-70mm or a 50mm is about the ideal length: you don’t want to be so wide that it’s tricky to compose your scene but, equally, a telephoto lens will get too close. We used a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 DG HSM Art on our Nikon D850 for this project.
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