# Our Great Indoors

In this lesson, you will learn how to create super cool and fun miniature world photographs using just what you have lying around your home. Firstly, you will learn how to set up a great indoor miniature scene. Then you will take some photographs. Finally, editing the photographs into a finished fabulous miniature scene!

This lesson is in three parts:

Part 1 - What is #ourgreatindoors

Part 2 - Set up your miniature scene and take your photographs

Part 3 - Edit the photographs

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Below are some examples of the #ourgreatindoors photographic images you could create following these tutorials.

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Part 1 What is #ourgreatindoors

Most of us have the odd tiny toy in the shape of an animal or person. My little boy has lots of little Lego men. Well imagine if you created a fantastical world for them to live in using the odd scrumpled up piece of paper as rocks, fabric as grass and bowls of water as lakes!

The #ourgreatindoors was created at the beginning of the Coronavirus lock down by a travel photographer called Erin Sullivan, a.k.a. Erin Outdoors, who decided to stay creative indoors. Since she couldn’t travel, she instead started recreating stunning natural scenery using the things she found around the house.

Have a read of this article and look through these images to inspire you.
Save your favourite image to your device and briefly describe what the photographer used to create the miniature scene. You could discuss this with your parent/carer if you want to you.
Before you move on to the next part, have a look at this website which demonstrates how miniature photography is being used commercially.

Part 2 - Set up your miniature scene and take your photographs

Watch this YouTube video.
Set up your miniature scene. Be creative. If you don't have small toy people, then use small toy animals or toy cars instead. Literally anything will do once you place it in the right setting.
Don't forget about the lighting. You could create something very dramatic if you experimented with shining a torch or a lamp on your little miniature scene.
Make sure the little person is in focus. Take shots from different angles. Take at least 10 photographs.

Part 3 - Edit the photographs

You can now edit your chosen photographs to make them perfect. You may need to crop your photograph. Or you may want to add little speech bubbles and text to your photograph. Or there may be something in the photograph that you want to remove.

Here are some tutorials that could help you:

Option 1: Use you phone to make simple edits such as cropping the photograph and changing the brightness (easy).

Option 2: Use the Smart Healing Brush on Photopea to remove any unwanted objects in your photograph (easy and very cool!)

Option 3: Use the Clone Tool on Photopea to remove objects (a little more tricky)

Option 1: Use your phone to make simple edits:

Option 2: Use the Smart Healing Brush on Photopea to remove objects (very cool!):

Option 3: Use the Clone Tool on Photopea to remove objects:

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