Hyper-Photos

Right before we left Poland to come back to the US I was in Empik and read an article in some photo journal about hyper photos.  I'd never heard of them and really, I've still never seen the term anywhere else.  They are brilliant and I want you to be in on the "secret".

A French photographer, Jean Rauzier, is the mastermind behind these amazing artistic structures.  Why structures?  Because when displayed, his photos take up whole walls.  They are perfectly composed (and exposed) mega panoramas, seamlessly composited over an enormous amount of time in Photoshop.  Think taking up to 1,000 zoomed-in images of a landscape during a 2-3 hour period and then putting those all together digitally in a way that is completely unnoticeable!  Unreal!

To add to the drama, Rauzier has developed a Salvador Dali-esque style...adding various "artificial" elements to his scenes.  Check out his photo entitled "On Time" to see what I mean.  The whole beach is nothing but small, perfectly in-focus alarm clocks.  

The phenomanal thing about these images is that they are completely in focus, razor sharp, over the entire image.  What seems like it would be too distant and obviously out-of-focus is actually just as sharp as the foreground.  Just click around in some of his images and you'll see.

If you haven't gone there already, you'll soon see that the site is in French.  But, in developing their language they were kind enough to keep many words so similar that you need not be a French scholar to navigate photographic website.  Just click "entrer" and later "galerie" and you'll be all set for utter amazement!