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The internet is full of beautiful and amazing photographs, but do you ever stop and wonder just what went into that perfect shot? I'm not just talking about the photo editing side of the process, although there's certainly plenty of that involved behind the scenes. No, I'm talking about the hard physical work combined with the often super-creative approaches that photographers employ to ensure that their final shot is the very best depiction of their photoshoot ideas.
Take a look at these behind the scenes pictures to see what we mean. Compiled by Bored Panda, they're sure to give the budding photographer some fresh photography ideas while providing the rest of us an enlightening glimpse into the reality of hard work, photo manipulation and Photoshop ideas that hides behind many a perfect picture.
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Miniature Car Models Create Realistic Historical Photos
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Surreal Miniature Photography
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Fox Close Up
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Wedding Photography
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M&m’s In Water Drops
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Photoshoot 25m Under The Sea In A Sunken Shipwreck
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Underwater Dog
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Wedding Photography
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Levitation
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That's How It Looks Like In Real Life
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Mirror Lake
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Rock Climber
Keith Cannataro 9 years ago
Too funny Denay, those were the two words I first said
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Jeff Spradling 9 years ago
Not sure which one is more dedicated, the lava photographer or this guy
Hubay József 9 years ago
THIS is not the same set: the picture on the left was made with an UWA lens from a distance of the climber cca 25 inches. The photographer on the right uses a medium telezoom.
Jake Kempen 9 years ago
That's highly irregular. Normally it's something more like this: Simon-Cart...389c4c.jpg 
Sergio Bicerra 9 years ago
I quit before doing that photo, too dangerous and i'm a little girl :'(
Reinhard Latzke 9 years ago
both nice photos btu the climber is shot with a wide angle lense (or even a gopro)
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Floating
Bambi Bambszi 9 years ago
Well you didn't think that the girl and the chair really flew, did you?
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Food Styling Photography
Tammy Chapman 9 years ago
This one makes me laugh....silly. I love the comment "the bloody food" by ScribbleArtie. lmao I'm American and a Texan at that. We don't use the term bloody, unless it's to describes actual blood. lol
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Wedding Photography
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Underwater Photoshoot
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Baby Photography
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Perfume On A Glassy Surface
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Underwater Photoshoot
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Umbrella
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Close-ups Of Snowflakes
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How Rare White Curtain Auroras Are Made
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Behind The Scenes Of Pit Bull Flower Power Photoshoot
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Capturing The Hummingbirds With 3D Camera
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Macro Photography
Lotus Buccola 9 years ago
I'm always jelly of these guys. I get near a dragonfly or bug and AWAY!!! T_T
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How Landscape Photos Are Really Made
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Surrealistic Photoshoot In The Sea
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Flour Photoshoot
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Romantic Couple Photoshoot
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Volcano Photography
Arti Maharaj 9 years ago
Damn! if I could've created a volcano like that for high school :P How was the volcano made? its very very cool!
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How Mountains Landscape Photos Are Made Of
Lena Hunter 9 years ago
I feel like I would run into so many photographers just buying cotton balls and spray bottles
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Aurora Borealis
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Leonie Spierings 9 years ago
Maybe it's just me but there are very little true 'behind the scenes' photo's and some that just,.. takes a lot of time capturing. Like the Romantic couple, how else would that photo have been taken?
fanfic DREW 9 years ago
I had the same though ... same could be said about the dog trying to catch a ball underwater
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Raylene Hamson 9 years ago
I thought they were very clever, and just shows what can be achieved when thinking outside the box....well done !!
Hillary Bowden 9 years ago
So what do all of you naysayers think movies are? Especially the ones with all of those special effects? I think this photography is fantastic and takes a heckuva lot of creativity!!!
Egle Bitinaite 9 years ago
Well, photography implies realism, and has been used as a tool to document reality, at least before advanced editing was invented. Much more so than fictional films and paintings, which utilize imagination
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Horatiu Curutiu 9 years ago
Thank you Bored Panda (and Lina D.) for mentioning us. Here is a BTS video with the flour photoshoot. Enjoy everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DleW1PY2LI
Piotrek Ziolkowski 9 years ago
Well the title is slightly misleading. It implies deception on a large scale which isn't so. Camera is not a magical, truth seeing device. It's a tool, just like a pen. It shows what the creator wanted us to see. Nothing less, nothing more.
Alejandra Colunga Rogers 9 years ago
No. 7 it's incorrect. The way the M&M's appear on the drops are by colors, red, yellow, green, blue, etc. but on the "real picture" the M&M's are all mixed up.
Alicia Wyatt 9 years ago
When I do photography like that, I would be checking how it looks first before I go and organize the M&M's
Load More Replies... Naomi Prior 9 years ago
I don't like being lied to, I understand a creative photo like the diving photos, but candy floss for clouds etc just don't ok!!!
Janice Foster 9 years ago
Totally agree! Those photos left me with a bad taste in my mouth...
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Erin Nadeau 9 years ago
I like to see how some of the more recognizable photos were captured. A *ton* of Photoshop had to go into some of these, but the end result is great!
Norah Morris 9 years ago
Some of these aren't that bad like the wedding ones aren't fake they just took a lot of time
Norah Morris 9 years ago
I'm an amateur photographer and I would never do that I like to take real photos
Alicia Wyatt 9 years ago
A lot of these are still "real" photos and others are photos that are combined with photo-manipulation.
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Jaime Pineda Suarez 9 years ago
la sexta es falsa en la foto aparecen los dulces ordenados y en el plato en desorden totalmente falsa
Leonie Spierings 9 years ago
Maybe it's just me but there are very little true 'behind the scenes' photo's and some that just,.. takes a lot of time capturing. Like the Romantic couple, how else would that photo have been taken?
fanfic DREW 9 years ago
I had the same though ... same could be said about the dog trying to catch a ball underwater
Load More Replies... Raylene Hamson 9 years ago
I thought they were very clever, and just shows what can be achieved when thinking outside the box....well done !!
Hillary Bowden 9 years ago
So what do all of you naysayers think movies are? Especially the ones with all of those special effects? I think this photography is fantastic and takes a heckuva lot of creativity!!!
Egle Bitinaite 9 years ago
Well, photography implies realism, and has been used as a tool to document reality, at least before advanced editing was invented. Much more so than fictional films and paintings, which utilize imagination
Load More Replies... Horatiu Curutiu 9 years ago
Thank you Bored Panda (and Lina D.) for mentioning us. Here is a BTS video with the flour photoshoot. Enjoy everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DleW1PY2LI
Piotrek Ziolkowski 9 years ago
Well the title is slightly misleading. It implies deception on a large scale which isn't so. Camera is not a magical, truth seeing device. It's a tool, just like a pen. It shows what the creator wanted us to see. Nothing less, nothing more.
Alejandra Colunga Rogers 9 years ago
No. 7 it's incorrect. The way the M&M's appear on the drops are by colors, red, yellow, green, blue, etc. but on the "real picture" the M&M's are all mixed up.
Alicia Wyatt 9 years ago
When I do photography like that, I would be checking how it looks first before I go and organize the M&M's
Load More Replies... Naomi Prior 9 years ago
I don't like being lied to, I understand a creative photo like the diving photos, but candy floss for clouds etc just don't ok!!!
Janice Foster 9 years ago
Totally agree! Those photos left me with a bad taste in my mouth...
Load More Replies... Erin Nadeau 9 years ago
I like to see how some of the more recognizable photos were captured. A *ton* of Photoshop had to go into some of these, but the end result is great!
Norah Morris 9 years ago
Some of these aren't that bad like the wedding ones aren't fake they just took a lot of time
Norah Morris 9 years ago
I'm an amateur photographer and I would never do that I like to take real photos
Alicia Wyatt 9 years ago
A lot of these are still "real" photos and others are photos that are combined with photo-manipulation.
Load More Replies... Jaime Pineda Suarez 9 years ago
la sexta es falsa en la foto aparecen los dulces ordenados y en el plato en desorden totalmente falsa
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