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- skelly
They really do look fake. Is it really just the selective focus that make it seem like a model? Weird.
- Antonelli0
Yeah, thats what I was thinking, the focus.
- spongebob0
For a moment I thought this was another nsfw boobie thread.
- skelly0
it still can be :)
- JazX0
gotta' be her lenses. she's tweaking something bigtime
- digitalswarm0
That's all in post. She may as well have taken them from Getty Images.
- Mal0
- skelly0
I've seen selective focus shots before. It's just really strange how much they look like little models. I'm just trying to figure out what it is exactly that makes it look like that. It seems hard to believe selective focus alone can make it look that much like a model but I guess it can.
- Mal0
A friend brought me a nice arty farty book from Tokyo with doulbe page photos Barbieri's stuff in it and it really does look like amazing minatures, it's a great trick for sure.
- tikal2k0
this is easy stuff, but incredibly expensive to replicate. i challenge anyone to do this with a corbis stock image and photoshop. basically to do this effect you need two things:
1. a view camera to take an isometric photo (thats eBoy style for all you braniacs)
2. a helicopter to take you to the right height and angle
the adjustable movements of the view camera is key to the entire thing. otherwise you get perspective lines, like with normal cameras.
- tikal2k0
come to think of it, he already explained everything in the article. and yes, the shifted plane of focus contributes to the effect. that's what you can do with view cameras. transform > perspective is basically the same effect in photoshop but you still don't have the overhead angle.
- index0000
Yes is that one of those old-style plate cameras with adjustable belows so the plate can be tilted in relation to the plane of the lens to remove perspective>
- Leigh0
http://www.dennisonbertram.com/h…
he uses a tilt- shift lense.
- Leigh0
lol
- HumanMale0
You kidding?! Maybe one looks slightly real... the others, no chance.
- the-saint0
I don't know what's real any more. I want to see a big hand come into shot and pick the little building up.
- stem0
It's the opposite of the classic trick to try and disguise a model superimposed on the real topography. Blur a bit to hide the fact that the detail of the model isn't sufficiently fine. And do something to disguise the out of scale shadows.
So when you do it in reverse and make the light look really flat and the shadows really sharp you make reality look virtual?
with the right phot to start with, a bit of contrast work and a bit of blurring.
- stem0
In photoshop:
Use a feather edged ellipse marquee, invert selection and gaussian blur. Then a sharpen edges over the entire image to make the unblured bit just a little too crisp.
And then monkey about with brightness/contrast and colour balance 'til it looks wrong!
- digilee0
assuming that these ARE models, why would you spend all that time and effort building the models just to say they are real photos?