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- phatvolvo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+27Hah. I thought it said "how to make toys look like huge structures"
I was like "What? This guy sucks, they still look like toys. " - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Woah, lol. Looks like blurring is key.
- taotehue, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9No you don't, did you read it? It was about the use of the lens.
"Barbieri uses a tilt-frame camera to shift the plane of focus so that it is out of alignment with the film." - aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6not much of a tutorial. just tips.
btw; lighting is also very important. - gingerchris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Tutorial:
http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/ - Promantarius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Now all they need is a viable method to reverse that - make toys look like huge structures. I know a few video games and movies that could benefit from the reversal - Saruman's Tower in LOTR looks tiny still, "massive" ships in video games tend to look pretty small too :(
- diggeddugg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6And:
http://flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/
for this effect without a special lens. Instructions on how-to here:
http://flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/discuss/72057594073514981/?search=gimp
http://flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/discuss/72057594072639669/?search=photoshop - EtherGnat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For more info on faking the effect there was a Digg story a couple of months ago: http://www.digg.com/design/Make_Photos_look_like_Miniture_Model_Sets
- nitsuj, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5It's all fake.
These pictures are taken with a truly gigantic camera. - fucayama, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It's so easy too!
Now, where did I put that tilt-frame camera......
..and my helicopter - Juano11, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Couldn't I just take pictures of toys????
- bouche, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I've learned how to do that from numerous posts that were on the Digg here. It's a cool effect for sure. I'm always amazed at the different ways people pull it off. I took one of my Cuba shots and gave it that model effect. Very cool!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bouche/134894635/ - chadtatro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i just posted a GUIDE on how to make a cheap-ass lens to do these tilt-shifting photo's
UPDATE: Build lens to make large objects miniature from frontpage story
http://digg.com/technology/UPDATE:_Build_lens_to_make_large_objects_miniature_from_frontpage_story - mikae1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift1-2miniatures/
- artman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4No, you don't need CS2 specifically. Open an image in Photoshop, select an area where this effect will work and use feathering. Then use the Maximum filter and then the Blur filters.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1time for me to get my TS-E 24mm f/3.5L
- davdav, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Those tokyo photos are terribly blurred. It doesn't achieve the effect very well.
- EBFoxbat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Looks like stills from Tora! Tora! Tora! or something. That's neat.
- harlowsmonkeys, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Those don't show the toy effect. They are very interesting, though.
- edward301, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The article claims to be a "How to" yet gives a one line nondescript explanation of how to actually achieve the effect "a tilt-frame camera to shift the plane of focus so that it is out of alignment with the film".
- gtdfaniam, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7seen this style on the homepage a bunch of times, e.g.,
http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/03/07/10-tiny-tokyo-photos/ - andoru, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1another one in rome can be seen here:
http://zenithsphere.my-expressions.com/archives/2704_1440075808/136423 - toddhenkel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Wonder if this technique could be applied to movies...
- bossm4n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Thanks for looking that up and posting the link. Saved me about 30 minutes of searching. That was a much better story with a nice step-by-step guide on how to do it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Interesting optical illusion. The fact that the blur is so sudden around the middle (horizontally) of the image and upward makes it seem like it really is up close. Fun stuff.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Here's a hint: don't leave humans in to scale. Geez. Not that impressed.
- tobsterius, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1for those who are wondering, tilt shift lenes aren't cheap. A hight quality tilt shift lens from Nikon or Canon usually runs $1,000+. Nice to see that you can fake it using photoshop. Gonna have to try that.
- Wolfboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1If you want to dabble, try it with Lensbabies lenses ($96 to $150)
http://www.lensbabies.com/ - JustAGamer, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's really cool a big wast of time as well but also cool.
- grungyhamster, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Hah, we all know that's impossible.
The beastie boys were referring to her when they said:
"Her name is Lucy, but her friends call her loose." - kendals, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Cool! Now I can pretend I'm a giant!
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1yay, a break from the everyday homepage routine. Digg.
- b.m.a.n, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1those are amazing looking, i was like WTF? lol
- the_snitch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2i remember seeing a while back on digg a link of mexico city pics that looked similar to this "toy effect". They were better IMO
edit: here they are
http://digg.com/links/Helicopter_shots_of_Mexico_City_neighborhoods_--_stunning_and_unreal_ - kodeiko, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Very impressive.
- jguy584, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2@Promantarius
CG is what will fix all that - rondo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0That looks awesome. I'm off to play with photoshop.
Andrew
http://www.hostingdiary.com - iEclipse, on 10/12/2007, -23/+1easy to do, Yet very neat. Need Adobe Photoshop CS2 to do it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/-tatum-/
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