Descalz World

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A printed street scene: palms and tall cypress along a grey paved drive, a blue-violet sports car in the middle of the frame, a low timber-clad house to the right with an open garage bay, and two more cars at the edges.
A road running straight away from the camera between rows of palms, an orange four-wheel drive coming down it.
A palm sharp in the foreground with a dark sports car on the road behind it and printed houses soft in the distance.
A dark car blurred across the foreground, a printed house standing behind it between two large trees.
A white two-storey printed house with its timber garage door closed and a blue supercar parked alongside, conifers behind.
A two-storey printed house with a steep dark standing-seam metal roof over vertical board siding, tall windows in the gable end, ringed by conifers and round-headed trees.
Four cars nose to tail coming down a printed road between rows of trees, a lime green Lamborghini leading with blue, yellow and dark cars behind it, and a white house with its garage bay open at the end of the street.

Three camera heights

Where you put the lens

Nothing changes a 1:64 photo more than how low the camera sits. Same piece, same light, three heights.

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A printed single-storey house from high above: the dark shingled hip roof open to the lens, two garage bays with cars inside below it, a palm alongside, and the grey road tile curving right across the frame with its far edge still in shot.

High angle · reads as a layout

From well above the roof you see how the pieces join and how much space a run takes. It is the honest shot and the least atmospheric one.

The same house from shelf height, turned so front and side are both in view: the hip roof foreshortened, two open bays with a red car and a silver car inside, a palm beside them, and the road tile running out of the bottom of the frame.

Three quarter · reads as an object

The everyday angle. You see the front and one side at once, so the depth of a house and the matte surface both show up without any staging.

The same house again with the camera down near the deck: the two open bays face the lens almost square on with the cars clearly visible inside, the roof reduced to a thin band, and the palm standing right up the frame.

Eye level · reads as a place

Camera down near the deck, roughly level with a windscreen. This is the one that stops looking like a photo of a model. It is also the hardest to light.

Four more subjects

The rest of the collection

The three above are one piece at three camera heights. Here is the rest of the collection, any camera height.

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A low cream-walled printed house with a flat overhanging roof, photographed square into its open garage bay: a green car and a silver car parked inside, a round-headed tree and a conifer alongside, grey road surface in the foreground.

Into the bay · two cars, doors open

A tan two-storey printed house with a flat roof and solar panels on its lower deck, framed between two palms, with a second printed building and a line of trees standing further down the same street.

The street · several pieces joined

A white printed house with a dark hip roof on a corner plot: two open garage bays with cars inside, a tall palm rising past the roofline, white-framed windows along the right-hand wing, and a road tile curving past the front.

Detail · close, one subject

A two-storey timber-clad printed house with a steep gable end, a single window set high in the gable and a wide black garage door below, flanked by two tall narrow cypresses.

Gable end · one house, two trees

Four of the collection · send a photograph and it goes up here too

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The pieces

What's in the pictures

Collection 02

Diorama City

Roads, dealerships, shops and emergency services, all of them on the 160 mm square.

StreetsView
Collection 01

Diorama Display

Houses, open at the front, so what you park inside is still visible from the shelf.

HousesView
Collection 03

Diorama Accessories

Trees, furniture, dividers and more. Watch your scene come to life.

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