Co nie gra na tych zdjęciach?

niedziela, 28 lutego 2016 (10:00)

Prace pewnego fotografa wydają się być na pierwszy rzut oka zwykłymi zdjęciami – dopóki do naszego mózgu nie dotrze, że coś na nich nie gra!

Stephen McMennamy tworzy prace, które mogłyby wydawać się zwyczajnie dobrymi fotomontażami prosto z Photoshopa. Okazuje się jednak, że jego „combo photos” powstają wyłącznie poprzez sklejenie ze sobą dwóch zdjęć. Cała tajemnica tkwi w znalezieniu możliwie najbardziej podobnych teł do fotografowanych obiektów, co McMennamy opanował do perfekcji.

Zobaczcie jego wyjątkowe fotografie!

candy + garden sprayer my daughter ended up the hero on this #combophoto. she was repeatedly pelted with rainbow colored candies (rhymes with spittles) and never complained. I captured a few outtakes on video. favorite one over on @combophotofail. #WHPvibrant

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Feb 6, 2016 at 4:40pm PST

human + pencils aforementioned human is Cherry Alayra, an exceptional wardrobe stylist based in LA who was kind enough to pose for this hastily slapped together #combophoto. additional assistance in slapping this together... pencils courtesy of @calebdewart.

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Feb 3, 2016 at 4:46pm PST

daughter holding wire + ski lift I've been holding on to this one since our ski trip last year. winter wasn't much of a winter out west last year. heading out to do more of the same tomorrow. hoping El Niño dumps massive amounts of snow directly under my skis. for some reason I enjoyed the fine detail of how well these wires (and their threading) lined up. it's the little things. aforementioned little thing is up on @combophotofail. prepare to be underwhelmed. #tbt #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jan 28, 2016 at 4:45pm PST

banana + car this one was supposed to be a , but it ended up just being another #combophoto. it's the fruit that keeps on giving. and there's always more banana ideas in the pipeline (and the lemon thing may still happen). see you next week. same time, same place. chances are good it'll be something with fruit, maybe pencils, could be more peppers, perhaps something with skittles or cereal or bread or balloons.

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jan 21, 2016 at 4:48pm PST

golden shower cotton stuffing + gold necklaces. this quickly turned into one of those "long walk for a ham sandwich" situations. I started out trying to photograph a gold shower head, but reflective surfaces are a total pain to shoot. I ended up rigging a little photo booth to eliminate all the reflections, but the whole thing looked kinda illustrated in a weird way. I was ready to bail on it, but a cauliflower cloud by @aravisdolmenna caught my eye, which ultimately helped me land on the cloud idea. there was a lot of prep and planning on the front end, but total spontaneity on the back end. as I started shooting yet another shower head, I threw the cotton cloud in as a "let's see what happens" and I liked what happened. see the failed attempts over on @combophotofail. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jan 14, 2016 at 4:54pm PST

pepper + shoe open to all your good puns or captions... #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jan 7, 2016 at 4:42pm PST

umbrella + candy cane. the weather is absolute crap down south and it seems like it might be that way for a while. hoping this will cheer everyone up. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Dec 23, 2015 at 4:46pm PST

soda bottles + Christmas lights I wanted to mix this one up with different soda bottles, but I decided to go with the uniformity of one bottle type. early test shot over on @combophotofail. not pimping Fanta, but I am pimping a #Christmas #combophoto. my first test run on this idea was a disaster, but @calebdewart got me to straighten up and fly right. thanks for the quality creative direction, sir.

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Dec 17, 2015 at 4:49pm PST

cupcake + toothbrush I got two cupcakes at @publix yesterday. two. I dropped one while walking to my car. I also bought 5 toothbrushes... none of which were dropped. there's an uninteresting outtake over at @combophotofail. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Dec 10, 2015 at 5:05pm PST

my twirling 5 year old + a hibiscus flower. down south for a caribbean thanksgiving, so I thought we could all enjoy a little warm weather #combophoto. #

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Nov 26, 2015 at 4:44pm PST

cherry picker + plastic knife #TBT to last summer when this LA based lineman was kind enough to pose for this TBD photo. the TBD part was the plastic knife. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Nov 19, 2015 at 5:02pm PST

lightbulb + egg R.I.P. to all the eggs lost on this one. I welcome all clever/punny commentary. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Nov 5, 2015 at 5:02pm PST

PVC pipe + chocolate milk & straw I feel bad for my oldest daughter on this one. she was originally booked for this photo gig, but the little sister (working as a stand-in) beat her out with those pigtails. no big deal though, everyone was generously compensated with candy corn. note: big sister is still cute as a button, but everyone knows, when it's a hair showdown, pigtails win. # #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Oct 29, 2015 at 4:49pm PDT

wheat + braid keeping it simple this week. not much to say about this one other than, when I see wheat, I see a braid. thanks to @calebdewart for helping me produce the necessary materials to pull this one together. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Oct 22, 2015 at 4:51pm PDT

yellow paint + yellow squash more experimentation with "synthetic meets organic." technical note: I used a toothpick to suspend the squash slices. and there's a not-all-that-interesting outtake on @combophotofail. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Oct 8, 2015 at 4:48pm PDT

wood posts + fry container I'm definitely not endorsing any particular golden arch based fast food chain here, but I am endorsing the notion of giant, log sized, French fries. fry propping outtake over on @combophotofail. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Oct 1, 2015 at 4:51pm PDT

donuts + wheelbarrow I stacked some donuts this weekend to see what my previously very square world looks like now that it can be a little more vertical. that said, I'm digging all the new views from the latest @instagram update. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Aug 30, 2015 at 5:23pm PDT

totally blown away by the fact that I was interviewed by @klustout on @CNN earlier this week. pretty floored by it all. I can't thank you guys enough for all the support. video link added in my profile. piece of string + rope swing school starts back up next week. so here I am just trying to hang on to that last little bit of summer. one of the things I love most about photography is its ability to make time stand still. my daughter was 9 when I took this. she'll be 10 before we know it, but in this photo... being 9, the trip to the lake, this summer... will forever remain frozen in a single shot. #combophoto

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Aug 6, 2015 at 4:31pm PDT

winter + summer though it isn't officially summer yet, it's officially hot as hell in Atlanta. so here's a little #tbt to the cooler months. thank you @erriemarie and @gnarguin for helping me get this shot during my last visit to @whistlerblacomb. and a big thanks to my youngest for her exceptional hand modeling skills. more #combophoto's here. #ComboPhotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jun 18, 2015 at 5:30pm PDT

Swiss Army knife + some tools head over to @combophotofail to check out my rigging before I knew what I actually wanted to do here. a few more #combophoto's here. #ComboPhotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Jun 4, 2015 at 5:30pm PDT

UPDATE: as most of you saw when this was originally posted, I put it to a vote between two different plane tails. the results are posted over at @combophotofail. thanks again to all that participated. seagull + airplane the seagull was taken on the Santa Monica pier and the airplane (I think it's a MD90 or MD88) was taken at the Hertz rental car return lot at LAX. both locations have pretty great vantage points if you're looking to capture the undercarriage of flying animals or machines. more #combophoto's here. #vscocam #seagull #airplane #MD90 #MD88 #avgeek #layout #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on May 7, 2015 at 5:31pm PDT

drink umbrella + beach umbrella. I'll lay off umbrellas after this. a big thank you to @asdzxc1986 and @jfigman for helping me out on this one. when I ran into these two they'd just rolled in to LA after a 15 hour plane ride from the Ukraine. (and during our brief conversation about @instagram Dmitriy and I quickly discovered we both follow @twheat. Ukraine/Atlanta/LA... I dig that.) more #combophoto's here. #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Apr 30, 2015 at 5:29pm PDT

loops of fruit + 9 year old and a shovel #funwithfruit... loops part 2 (3's on the way). #WHPcolorplay #combophoto #layout #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Apr 12, 2015 at 6:08pm PDT

meatball + forklift spaghetti and meatball from a pizza place down the street (vintage pizza). forklift is from "the lot" in Hollywood California (on the other side of the country from my street). thanks to "the lot" transportation captain, Robert, for modeling and forklifting. additional #combophoto's here. #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Apr 2, 2015 at 5:04pm PDT

excavator + ice cream scoop construction equipment colliding with desert equipment... again. more #combophoto's here. #excavator #chocolate #icecream #scoop #vscocam #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Mar 13, 2015 at 5:00pm PDT

corn + banana or "cornana" (name stolen from @imamysedaris) just going freestyle with @monsantoco's genetic code. more #combophoto's here. #corn #banana #fruit #vegetables #monsanto #vscocam #combophotos

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Mar 2, 2015 at 5:06pm PST

cauliflower + poodle. while working in San Francisco last week, I managed to capture this #combophoto on the fly. pretty spontaneous stuff and it went down a little something like this: spotted a herd of standard poodles (3=herd)... asked for a photo while my subject took a tennis balls break (she, and her walker, said yes, but I made a crucial mistake and forgot to get names)... quickly took to the pavement and made a beeline to the nearest market (@mollie_stones)... secured some quality cauliflower... dismantled cauliflower... shot a bunch of cauliflower test subjects... found a match... (take a breath) and here's where I netted out. I actually got sweaty making this one. hills, people. thanks San Francisco mystery poodle and sorry cauliflower. # almost forgot... shot on the #iPhone (#iPhone6)

A photo posted by stephen mcmennamy (@smcmennamy) on Sep 24, 2015 at 4:45pm PDT