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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
So... this is actual shots of Calgary, just done in a cool way to make it look like a model...?
How?
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I'll use a link, because I'm horrible at explaining things like this.
http://www.squidoo.com/Tilt-Shift
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These amazing tilt shift photos take a city scene or a picture of cars and transform it into what looks like a model.
This is done by the photographer, or afterwards in Photoshop or other photo editing software. The tilt shift image has a small depth of field which makes the foreground and background out of focus. This tricks your eyes into thinking that the image is of a subject that is quite close to your eyes, and so must be small, hence the interpretation that the subjects are actually models.
You can test this for yourself. Hold a finger from your left hand a few inches from you eye, then hold a finger from your right hand half that distance from your eye, and in a position where you can see both fingers.
Now focus on the finger from the left hand. You will notice that this finger is in focus and the other finger is out of focus. You will also see that the background is also out of focus - it helps if you try this with a wall or bookcase quite nearby in the background.
So when your eyes see a picture that looks like this your brain assumes the subject is quite close by, perhaps just a few inches, and so you think that what you are looking at is a model.
Some of the Photoshop techniques enhance the saturation and the sharpness of the images to give them a richer and more focussed appearence which adds to the sense of a model image.
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