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magicbastarder

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/20070531_VINCENT_FEATURE/blocker.html

311

Cool perspective on that utility ,I've seen it used before and it makes photos look like dreams.

Nice link.

Valentia

Interesting link but the poor guy musn't have access to the internet. There are examples all over the place. In fact the style has become a bit of a cliche.

magicbastarder

i *think* i saw the tennis photos ages ago; the video may not be new.

311

The beach and surfing photos looked arial ,the rest looked photoshopped.

Chochese

Vince Laforet is a fantastic photojourno. He's got the kind of rep that lets him tell the NY Times Photo editor he's going to take 'experimental' shots at huge events like the Superbowl or the Olympics.

From the man himself:

"Here is a series that I've been working on covering major sporting events over the past 6 months across the nation. The assignment originally called for aerials - but since 9/11 getting clearance over any major event has proven close to impossible - so I decided to shoot everything with tilt-shift lenses - which gives a very surreal, almost doll-house like effect, to these venues. "

DaireQuinlan

Valentia wrote:

Interesting link but the poor guy musn't have access to the internet. There are examples all over the place. In fact the style has become a bit of a cliche.

Yeah, But I think this guy was one of the first guys to start doing that (tilt shift effect on things like sporting events and what have you). I vaguely remember reading about it a couple of years ago and being pretty impressed by it, I think again it was the shots of the tennis match. I like it that he has an idea behind the technique he's using aswell, short of just 'making a cool image', that it really focuses your attention on whatever it is that the photographer has chosen as the subject, in addition to making the image faintly surreal and unreal and worthy of closer attention. Nowadays of course everyone just fudges it up in photoshop :-)

prox

So much so that people seem to think software can take the place of optics:

_Brian_ wrote:

Cool perspective on that utility

So to speak.