I’m a total scale freak. I can’t get enough of it. It’s the one that we all need more of in life. It comes in all shapes and sizes, shapes, and sizes, shapes and sizes. From the scale of an egg to the scale of the human body, it’s the one we all need more of.
Scale photography is where you take a picture of a scale and then measure it to create a scale image. While this is a great way to get a big image of a scale, it has the downside that the measurements are usually not accurate. Because the scale is usually not a flat surface (for example, a scale on top of a scale), you can’t really get the whole thing to show up to the right scale size on the camera. This is definitely a thing that you should avoid.
The upside to this is that we can then use this scale image to make a scale image of a scale. This is great because you get a very accurate picture of the scale, and the measurement is also a lot easier.
Scale scaling is a whole other topic. But here is the good news. The scale is just a flat representation of the actual scale of the object. And because the camera works on top of a scale, the actual scale of the object is always in the camera. So we have a very accurate representation of the scale. Which means that we can use this image to scale the actual size of the object.
The thing is that a camera on top of a scale is like a scale on a tabletop. So we can scale our photography to any scale we want.
I’ve heard that the flat scale of a scale is a bit of a mystery. One of my favorite tools for getting a sense of this is just holding a stack of scales. When I look at a small stack of scales, each one is the same size. But the top one is a bit bigger than the bottom one. There’s a bit of a mystery to this since, as I said, they’re all the same size.
The scale of a stack of scales can be extremely subtle. And it’s not just a matter of the top one being a bit smaller than the bottom one. I can also tell when a small stack of scales is about the same size as a big stack of scales by the way they wobble in my hands. I’m not talking about the scales here, but just the stack.
Like when they wobble in my hands, when I look at the stack of scales, they also wobble slightly. And here’s where the mystery begins. Because I know when the scale is about the same size as the stack of scales, I can tell when it is a bit smaller than the stack of scales, but I don’t know when it is a bit bigger than the stack of scales.
I’ve been using scale photos to compare the size of two objects. For example, I took two different scale photos of the same stack of scales, one for me to compare, and one for my friend. I then took a photo of the stack of scales in the same position as the scale photos. I put the two photos side by side and measured the distance the stack of scales was from the camera, then I calculated the scale ratio on the scale photo.
Scale photography is a great way to measure the size of the object you are photographing. It also allows you to compare to another object, or even another camera. It’s so easy to use, so quick to do, and it’s so easy to measure. It’s something that should be used more often.