A couple of years ago I first stumbled over this very special style of taking photographs. It uses some very unique blurring effect to create the illusion of a small-scale model. I don't really know how to explain this properly, you'd rather just look at these sample pictures: More examples: http://tokyoyakei.jp/small/small.html Anyone tried this out yet? I would love to take shots in this miniature style, but couldn't find a tutorial anywhere. Is it just about blurring the top and bottom part of the image or will I have do perform some trick to achieve this effect?
i'm really tired, are the above pictures models? or the real deal? the photos in the link looked real, with the miniature point of view. the pictures in the link looked like the might have a special lens. maybe... maybe not.
Yeah, everything is real. Just look at the grade of detail (i.e. the person on the truck lot, or the gardens - impossible to create as a model. Still it indeed looks like that )! @sabre Thanks, couldn't find that with my search tags!
Love those images. Read another post about it not to long ago http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/ Some great photos at that site.
part of it is the position from which the photographer is taking the picture. he's obviously in a helicopter or using a jet pack. but those pictures really do look trippy.
cool stuff, looks awesome. going to mail them to a friend who collects miniature trains, that will leave him puzzled lol
If you set the aperture to something ridiculous (and w/ the right lense) you can get the blur effect on the outter edges. Most likely something post-production as well for the main blur effect. Really cool though. Reminds me of Mr. Rogers Neighborhood.
The blur is just depth of field. You could use a more complex metering system to achieve this, or fake it in Photoshop. I wouldn't call it tilt shifting. Tilt shift lenses are used to correct perspective, for example if you take a photo of a tall building and want the sides to be parallel, not in a point perspective. You could use a tilt shift lens, but it would be cheaper and you'd probably get more results using photoshop. Adjust the curves to make the colours look more vivid and painted, at the same time adjusting the contrast to give less detail and hence a plasticy look. And yes, the angle from which you take it can help.
