Gallery: There's a Trick Behind These Gorgeous Photos of Alien Worlds

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    Luke Evans creates otherworldly landscapes on his kitchen table.
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    Stitched Panorama

    He crafts the lands out of household objects like flour, charcoal powder and chunks of brick.
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    THE FORGE TABLE

    All of Evans' landscapes are actually tiny. See here.
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    He makes them appear life-size by tweaking the tilt-shift technique.
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    Typically a tilt shift lens will use a shallow depth of field across an image to make it look smaller. That’s how a lot of photographers make enormous skyscrapers and cars appear to be miniaturized. Evans needed to do the opposite.
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    He used a Phase One medium format camera to capture as much of his landscapes in focus as possible, turning his tiny sets into full-scale landscapes.
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