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Who dugg this? Made popular Aug 25, 2007

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  • roastedbagel, on 10/10/2007, -2/+48I'll give you an A for effort...but the whole "profit" joke should be short and sweet, that was too much to read.
  • mrfreeziexp, on 10/10/2007, -3/+36I agree. You should be making a profit by at least step 4.
  • JacNet, on 10/10/2007, -5/+37The Pics:
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/106792657_ea756cccb2.jpg
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/252142355_69da455a41.jpg?v=0
    http://farm1.static.flickr.com/38/123719583_3aba9b287b.jpg?v=0
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1077/1162121598_2ed7e2fac0.jpg?v=0
    http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1109/838111923_c9364de1a3.jpg?v=0
  • joeshlub, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23?
  • skyfire1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+23Reply. Use it.
  • EserVerx, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24Very nice. As an amature photographer I am very happy to find new techniques to fool around with :)
  • goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -1/+20My hovercraft is full of eels.
  • viruz, on 10/10/2007, -6/+22here's another cool tilt shift example
    http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=502570307&context=set-72157600215875480&size=o
  • OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16it's sort of the opposite of the special lens they use in movies to film miniature sets and have them appear larger than life. :)

    I love the effect!
  • applebyte, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15photo of reykjavik, iceland... made in photoshop
    http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/9813/miniicelandps3.jpg
  • gsmolders, on 10/10/2007, -2/+12...up on a mountain?
  • goldenratiophi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9You're pretty lame.
  • holygram, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Go back to 4chan.
  • Dominatus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Don't be an idiot.

    These aren't miniatures, they are actual places. What evidence do you have that those are miniatures at all? A TS lens is needed to achieve this effect (or photoshop) because a 50mm lens's DOF increases as distance scales. The effect makes them APPEAR to be miniatures when they actually aren't...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

    Learn a little before you act like an ass.
  • co72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8wrong. you are now blocked for being a know it all wrong person.
  • HA5TY, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9That is....amazing!
    too bad the lens cost so much
  • purple, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7The photoshop is nowhere near as good looking as the actual thing.
  • coldphoenix, on 10/10/2007, -0/+720 dollar lens? hahaha
  • borninda818, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8I swear that ride at Disneyland scared the living ***** out of me. All those little people...staring at me. I felt so exposed, so vulnerable, so scared. I still have nightmares [sucks left thumb while pulling right ear]
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10I hope this neat technique doesn't get beat into the ground like HDR did.
    Who am I kidding, everything gets run into the ground here!
  • prockcore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Yeah, because cameras don't have that thing called an aperture... you couldn't possibly underexpose a photo.
  • JacNet, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7That's the illusion. :S
  • shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+55 points to Gryffindor, I guess.
  • awfulgrace, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Yeah - it took me a really long time to get my head around it, but eventually I figured out that it's because everything is either in or out of focus, there's no depth of field in the center of the images.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5You're an idiot. You're talking about portraits. When you use a 50 mm lens on an object a half a mile away, you don't get background blur.
  • cbartlett, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5http://www.digg.com/design/Creating_fake_Miniature_environments_In_Photoshop_Skill_Level_Easy
  • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Step 1: Teach Diggers the proper way to reference a South Park joke
    Step 2: ???
    Step 3: Profit!
  • scruffles, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5This is a photoshop simulation of tilt shift photography. I can't imagine a Ericson phone with a tilt shift lens.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4why the hell is this getting dugg down? As a photographer, this is the only useful non-"IT'S 'SHOOPED/PHOTOSHOP IS ADULTERATION" comment here...

    I think I might actually buy one of these. I've been wanting a bellows focus camera for a while now, but always have been held back by the price; this actually lets me do most of the Ansel Adams-esque effects I would want without a crazy expensive, heavy, bulky, old bellows cam.

    Thanks spurtnik.
  • maximumsteve1, on 10/10/2007, -3/+7why is this getting dugg down? are they not the real pics? I wouldn't know since the page is already down
  • JohnKappa, on 10/25/2008, -3/+7You can actually acieve this using photoshop with most arial pics...
    http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/
  • ChileanGoD, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5...and I say... ***** this *****! Where's my jet pack!?
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Your comment is a miniature set.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5"They all look like ants."
    "They are ants!"
  • DigitalN, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4You're mother's pretty lame!


    ... I know, too far.
  • GliTCH82, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Ok, now what?
  • DigitalN, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5The more you know.

    *insert shooting star*
  • FaisDoDo, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Learned something today.

    I think shooting animals in the wild would look cool this way. Like a heard of elephant on the Serengeti.
  • inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3that one isn't really *true* tilt-shift photography, however, just a photoshop effect that mimics it.

    true tilt-shift needs a camera lens that can tilt and shift relative to the filmstock (hence the name...)
  • OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The clock says 10:55, remember it's an analog clock, if the hour hand looks like it's pointing at 11, but the minute hand is pointing past 30 minutes, it's still only 10-something.

    The shadows seem to be about right for 10:55. And yes, I'm sure it was underexposed. You're not crazy, it does look like early morning/late afternoon if you go by the light intensity and color. but the shadows are not really very long at all.
  • worthone, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Aperture, shutter speed, filters or ISO/ASA (depending on the type of camera we are talking about) all affect the amount of incoming light. Of course, the picture could have been faked - or it could just be an illusion.
  • MOJIRA, on 05/17/2008, -0/+3You know, this is the only one I've seen that I thought was actually a model.
  • sprutnik, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8For a budget "tilt" lens check out LensBabies... It doesn't create the exact effect of the costly Tilt-Shift lenses but still allow you to use a creative selective focus technique... Takes some practice, but it's alot of fun

    http://www.lensbabies.com/
  • Thumper13, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3It already has. Actually I thought it was before HDR came around. It looks like round 2. Maybe for both.
  • grusandcrux, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3no...
  • viruz, on 10/10/2007, -3/+5nope it's a real street
  • sweetskye82, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Very cool! Dugg especially since it included a link to purchase a cheap lens that does it.
  • Sil369, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Let's hope they use these lens on film cameras.... I wonder how these images would look like as videos
  • Waredgo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Please remember to inverse your selection (or check Reverse on the gradient options) before you apply the lens blur.
    Shamefully omitted in the tutorial mentioned.
  • Phr3aker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1check out the difference between digg and reddit HAHA
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