Making The Real World Miniature : XML WIDGEThttp://www.plime.com/You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!en-us87593http://www.plime.com/arts/l/87593/1/<![CDATA[Making The Real World Miniature]]> More details in the comments.]]>85561/4/2009 8:54:09 AM2009-01-04T08:54:09+01:00
404773http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q9<![CDATA[Marli @ 1/4/2009 10:30:16 PM]]>1/4/2009 10:30:16 PM2009-01-04T22:30:16+01:00404706http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q8<![CDATA[mowem @ 1/4/2009 8:01:52 PM]]> I'm tired and this is messing with my head :O]]>1/4/2009 8:01:52 PM2009-01-04T20:01:52+01:00404626http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q7<![CDATA[bcgrote @ 1/4/2009 5:54:12 PM]]> I bet I could do this with my G9.... Lock focus, recompose the shot.... Hmmmm...]]>1/4/2009 5:54:12 PM2009-01-04T17:54:12+01:00404576http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q6<![CDATA[Breex243 @ 1/4/2009 3:21:47 PM]]> The benefit to this is that you can get great shots without the need for a lensbaby, but this method requires you to be really high up in the sky--I kind of like the POV better than the simple forward-facing macro-looking shots. Try this next time you're on a hot air balloon ride.
Pretty much the whole effect is based on the back that 90% of the shots involving miniatures are shot with a macro lens at its widest aperture, hence the shallow DOF. The tilt-shift technique allows one to make the DOF incredibly narrow, so that one can essentially "scale up" a miniature to real life by scaling the DOF down. We're just too used to seeing photos of miniatures taken a large aperture instead of at a tiny aperture with plenty of light/tripod+long shutter speed.]]>1/4/2009 3:21:47 PM2009-01-04T15:21:47+01:00404556http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q5<![CDATA[susiesan @ 1/4/2009 2:21:54 PM]]>1/4/2009 2:21:54 PM2009-01-04T14:21:54+01:00404501http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q4<![CDATA[drogue @ 1/4/2009 11:56:39 AM]]> It is a strange disconnect, though, that causes the impression, and I suppose a learned one, based on having seen macro-photography?]]>1/4/2009 11:56:39 AM2009-01-04T11:56:39+01:00404492http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q3<![CDATA[ozero @ 1/4/2009 11:16:09 AM]]>
]]>1/4/2009 11:16:09 AM2009-01-04T11:16:09+01:00404466http://www.plime.com/l/87593/1/xml_widget.rss#q2<![CDATA[pocksucket @ 1/4/2009 8:54:17 AM]]> One area where this technique is commonly used is in correcting what would otherwise appear irregular in photos of convergent parallel lines (train tracks, a tall building shot vertically, etc).
When applied in more regular circumstances it creates an optical illusion that the photograph is of a miniature, due to the altered depth of field.
(This is, in a vague way, why in movies that have sequences with model boats the water looks just plain wrong)
Tilt-shift can be applied either in camera or digitally, in post production. The post production method is quite easy and rather satisfying. If you want to know how to do it, PM me.