“A Room Filled with an Obnoxious Amount of Money”
For this photograph titled A Room Filled with an Obnoxious Amount of Money, I simply withdrew $871 from the bank and then used the multiplicity photography effect to fill the room up with cash.
This process roughly took 7-10 hours: roughly 4 hours taking the actual pictures of the money with my DSLR on a tripod; as you can see, I've put the money inside of picture frames, taped it walls, folded it around window blinds, mounted it in piles, and stuffed it in drawers and glass jars. Post-processing the 170 individual frames in Adobe Photoshop CS5 took roughly 5 hours. This is a 2 shot vertical panorama (Everything shot in JPEG) with some HDR toning applied at the very end with the Topaz Photoshop plug-in.
This looks like an obnoxious amount of money, but it was really only $871, as you can see below.
In order to make the heaping "piles" of money seen on the tables, I simply took a small pillow and covered it with the $871, making sure no part of the pillow was visible, then moved the money to the next spot, and repeated 170 times:
If you take this $871 and then multiply it 170 times, this room would be filled with $148,070 USD. If you add the amount of money perceived inside the glass jars and underneath the heaping piles, this room could easily add up to a million US dollars or more.
Pretty cool! I'm rich with American currency, and it only took me 9 hours!
The multiplicity photography effect is explained in the video tutorial linked above. Plus, if you want an entire structured library of unique photography techniques, consider purchasing my instructional how-to e-book and online video course Trick Photography and Special Effects, which explains the camera techniques used to create creative images just like these ones.
Here is another image that is a little more casual titled "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites" (Skrillex reference) that was taken in the same room:
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January 31st, 2012 - 00:13
WOW great job !LOVE IT just photoshop me in.
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January 31st, 2012 - 00:44
very interesting and inspiring! thx, great work
January 31st, 2012 - 05:33
Very nice, Evan
January 31st, 2012 - 06:16
WOW. Amazing job! Definitely a time consuming image, but I think it was definitely worth all of the effort.
January 31st, 2012 - 06:28
Cool! This should be how much you’ve made from your book! I’ve enjoyed every page of it!!!
January 31st, 2012 - 06:56
Nice work Evan, put some time and money to this shot, and it “paid off”.
January 31st, 2012 - 09:04
U rock dude !!!
January 31st, 2012 - 21:34
Your blog is really nice!
February 13th, 2012 - 05:18
Wonderful job Evan! Thank you for your book also!
March 6th, 2012 - 10:33
wow !
March 13th, 2012 - 04:38
Thanks a lot for all your “extreme” tutorials, have tried last weekend this one here by myself and this is my result:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rene_p/6830803486/
March 17th, 2012 - 11:16
Crazy cool! You should do “abundance” posters!
May 12th, 2012 - 09:04
Great shot Looks like your book sales are doing well. Congrtulations. I think you deserve it. :0)
July 16th, 2012 - 00:42
I am marrying you!
October 30th, 2012 - 15:08
This is genius stuff. And the concept can be used for so many more kinds of pictures. And you even share the secrets for free. Good karma.
Jerry
December 23rd, 2012 - 11:00
Ever since I was younger I had the dream of starting and running my own business. It took me 25 years to figure out where I wanted to start and I would literally beat myself up everyday for not knowing what I was going to do for a living. I have been working in a restaurant for the last 4 years and everyday I look at the people that have been there for 10 years serving people, making the same money and then blowing it at the bars. Some with dreams, some with out dreams but which ever way you look at it, neither side is pursuing that dream.
January 30th, 2013 - 03:04
Hi Evan! Just wanted to tell you that someone has stoled your image :/ http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=423661004353168&set=a.256678141051456.82811.121700401215898&type=1&theater
February 9th, 2013 - 14:33
I was inspired to have a go….
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennysarmy/8459246492
April 11th, 2013 - 22:02
Great work. Sad to see your photo used without attribution at http://www.honisoit.com/2013/03/raytheon-missile-sales-funding-ussc/. Hilarious thing is that the author is writing about an ethical issue. Clearly has no ethics of his own!
April 25th, 2013 - 03:06
Hey love lots of your work…
I have in idea that may have saved you loads of time on this one… Take $148,070 USD out of your account and do it all in one photo!!! Lateral thinking often saves time…
I have looked through most of your site, and can see the progression from the early ones to the latest. as many say, very inspiring… keep up the good work…
Barry aka Uncle Wiggy
May 18th, 2013 - 19:26
I like the valuable information you provide in
your articles. I will bookmark your blog and check again here regularly.
I’m quite sure I will learn plenty of new stuff right here! Good luck for the next!