Miniature photography behind the scenes

Vatsal Kataria, a talented miniature photographer from India, loves creative or conceptual photo shoots and brings his ideas into reality with miniature photography, no expensive props and dioramas, he uses plaster of parts to create mountains or rocks, mixture of plaster and black paint to make roads, polystyrene sheets, homemade foliage, baking powder for snow and some paints, and renders them by using Photoshop. In general, Vatsal Kataria takes 3-15 days to complete a project. “It’s just a myth that you cannot do great photography without great and expensive props and utilities.” Vatsal Kataria states. “It’s endless what you can do with it and do it the way you want to… Creativity comes from observations.”