Wow. Australian photographer Keith Loutit has apparently found a shooting technique that makes parts of Sydney look like they were built in miniature.
My mind is officially blown... I love it, and I have no idea how he's done it. Look for this to turn up in a commercial or music video soon... it's too cool not to be a Big Deal. Check out the Mardi Gras clip in particular.
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Have you really not seen tilt/shift photography before? “tilt/shift” – that’s your search term – now off to flickr with you.
Doing it mechanically is expensive and tricky but the best way to explain what’s going on. Basically, you shoot with a special lens assembly that is tilted with respect to the object and has a very shallow depth of field.
Rather than having a plane *parallel* to the film/sensor which is in focus, you take that plane and end up with it hitting the film at an angle. For some reason this looks like using a macro lens on an actually small object.
• Take a picture from above (like you were in an isometric 3d game) of a distant scene with many objects
• Create a layer on which you put a symmetrical gradient (black center, white top and bottom, or the opposite, forget which)
• Use that layer as a mask to apply a blur (so that it blurs more on the top and bottom and not at all along the center)
• Fidget and adjust until it looks right.
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