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It's so TINY!

  • Sep. 25th, 2010 at 4:16 PM
pepper: Pepperpot (Camera)
Wow. Just came across this - 'The Sandpit', a day in the life of New York City, in miniature:

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.



I'm still trying to get my head around how he's made it look like it's a tiny model, when in fact it's the real NYC. It's something called 'tilt-shift' - the narrow depth of field emulates the effect you get in macro photography - when you photograph something in macro, you generally get a very small area that's in focus, and the rest is blurry. Something like that. There are special lenses for this stuff, but apparently it's possible to it post-production, too. I must give it a go sometime, because I've never quite got the hang of making landscape photos look interesting. They're always so flat and boring.

Comments

paian: Daniel looking awed, caption 'wow' (wow by me)
[personal profile] paian wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2010 03:42 pm (UTC)
Beautiful and really cool and totally fascinating. Thanks for posting it!
pepper: Pepperpot (Camera)
[personal profile] pepper wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2010 03:54 pm (UTC)
Yerwelcome. :) I was watching it going, "Oh cool, a miniature model of New York... hey, wait a sec... are those people...?"
paian: Daniel Jackson and Elizabeth Weir, caption 'into focus' (focus by moonshayde)
[personal profile] paian wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2010 04:16 pm (UTC)
What struck me most was how the movements of big machines like helicopters and backhoes really look like the behavior of insects, speeded up that way and with the amazing miniature-model effect. I was all 'omg we really are ants.' *g*
pepper: Pepperpot (Default)
[personal profile] pepper wrote:
Sep. 25th, 2010 04:24 pm (UTC)
Oh yeah - particularly the helicopters, I thought, flitting about like mosquitoes. It got me picturing giant alien entities with long lifespans, watching us. :)

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