Going Small
Posted
June 18, 2008 
Comments(3)
Comments(3)
Here’s an interesting hobby: taking real photos and making them look like they’re photos of a model. I first saw this when a coworker sent me a link to the daily dose of imagery. It was a photo of a parking lot, but I couldn’t tell whether it was real, or whether it was a model.
But apparently this picture is not alone. In fact, there are entire Flickr groups devoted to this. And it’s really rather amazing — the insanely shallow depth of field plays horrible tricks on your brain and can actually convince you that you’re looking at something miniature.
One of my favorites so far.
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I was looking at this photo, etc., last night.
The “real ones” are done with a tilt-shift lens (which you’ll surely recall is a bit of an obsession with me), but many people who can’t afford a $1,000 prime lens that isn’t even fast (or AF!) imitate the shallow DoF with Photoshop. Here’s another (I think this guy does it with a real T/S lens.)
Mildly off-topic, but I added a lot of new favorites on Flickr. I think that when I get my own place, I’m going to see if some of these photographers will allow me (possibly for a reasonable fee) to print and frame their works.
Oh, you can rent a T/S lens. (Something about an XTi with a T/S lens on the front amuses me… Not sure whether it’s visualizing the size, or realizing that the lens would cost twice as much as the camera, and that it’s not a cheap camera!)
Thanks for the comment on my “miniature chicago” photo…
Cheers
TBR