The 'sand' is simply one of my favorite shirts, made from a chamois effect material, turned inside out..books of diferent thickness placed underneath to add hills etc.ZForce Loon wrote: is that just loose sand piled up. i like that look.
the first Ground Assult picture is great as well
what type of camera do you use.
I just use a fairly basic 'point 'n' click' Canon camera..if you take a look @ these on my Flickr photo-stream that'll give you the model number..but, basically, I just point the thing & press the button letting the camera work all the technical stuff out

I'm not so happy with this one:

..another experiment using a simple back projection effect.