Can Someone Explain This Picture To Me!?

City-Exile

This is one of the most bizarre pictures I've ever seen.
It's as though I'm looking at a board game!
Can anyone explain to me, how this effect is created?

Cheers,
P.

melekalikimaka

vasaline on the lens??

Fajitas!

A tilt-shift lens.

Google it, there's loads written on them. Certainally one on my shopping list.

Eirebear

Wierd....its obviousl taken high and wide...but there seems to be far too much detail in the grass, and little or no shadow pertaining to the players even though they themselves look like they are floodlit....
I dont know
Looks like subbutteo

latchiko

It could also be a tilt shift lens effect, where a gaussian blur is applied to the whole image then a black-to-whit-to-black gradiant is applied to the mask..

fluffybunnyhead

Might it be a clever depth of field trick? Though it looks very small, it'd be hard to get that kind of detail!

latchiko

Tutorial here.

bovril

looks like subbuteo without the stands!

City-Exile

Sorry, I knew it was a tilt shift lens before I posted & should have noted that in the original post. I just need to read up on how it works.
I'm fascinated by the Subbuteo effect.

Sebzy

it's just a shallow DOF macro
have a look at that guys flickr it has many examples but with different subjects.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lrmeulman

viking

latchiko wrote:

Tutorial here.

Linky no worky for me...

EDIT: Working now..

Fajitas!

Aye, it's a fake tilt shift image. Done with photoshoppery via Lens Blur.

m_stan

Just buy one of these lads and you're sorted. No photoshopping needed !

Alternatively take some inspiration from here and get reading some tutorials

Peteee

The lens blur at the back and front (Done in PS) fools your brain into thinking you are looking at miniatures, which are often photographed in this way.

Roen

They're just wee folk.

leinsterman

For lots more really cool examples of this technique check out -

The Bitter Girls -

http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/

or

http://www.bittergirls.jp/en/

Got to try this myself some time!!!

evilhomer

Fajitas! wrote:

A tilt-shift lens.

Google it, there's loads written on them. Certainally one on my shopping list.

Hope your bank balance is very healthy. They are awfully pricey.

Hugh_C

City-Exile wrote:

Can anyone explain to me, how this effect is created?

selective blurring using GIMP or pshop - I've tried a few here

PeakOutput

is there any practical reason that you would want to do this or just artistic ones?(if you understand what i mean)

leinsterman

PeakOutput wrote:

is there any practical reason that you would want to do this or just artistic ones?(if you understand what i mean)

Well by creating a narrow dept of field at such a distance has the effect of fooling you into thinking you are looking at a model ...

but the Tilt shift lens itself is intented to correct perspective errors (converging lines) when shooting things like buildings by shifting the focal plane of the lens and film (or CCD if you use digital) ... better explained using diagrams methinks -

http://photo.net/equipment/canon/tilt-shift

positron

latchiko wrote:

Tutorial here.

Thats page is exactly what I thought when I saw the original picture! Spot on!

City-Exile

hughchal wrote:

I've tried a few here

I like what you've done there.

Thanks for all the links & info, guys.

P.

Cabaal

I think its a niniture football pitch, not the real thing

5uspect

Here is one of my fake tilt shift efforts. It probably need more work tho.

edited for spelling

City-Exile

Cabaal wrote:

I think its a niniture football pitch, not the real thing

I was at the game, we lost 0-4.
It was very real!

5uspect wrote:

Here is one of my fake tile shift efforts. It probably need more work tho.

Excellent stuff!
It's a fascinating concept.

PeakOutput

leinsterman wrote:

Well by creating a narrow dept of field at such a distance has the effect of fooling you into thinking you are looking at a model ...

but the Tilt shift lens itself is intented to correct perspective errors (converging lines) when shooting things like buildings by shifting the focal plane of the lens and film (or CCD if you use digital) ... better explained using diagrams methinks -

http://photo.net/equipment/canon/tilt-shift

thanks makes sense to me now

City-Exile

I'm like a kid with a new toy.
Here's my very first attempt.

Fajitas!

You're ever so slightly off, the people who's feet are in focus should be wholey in focus - imagine it's a wide line of focus going straight up you can move around in the image... if you get me!

City-Exile

Yeah, it was my absolute, very first attempt.
I've been playing around with it some more.
Looking for better pictures to use.

Fajitas!

Ah I'm not being overly critical, just trying to help!

City-Exile

Another attempt...



I seriously need to do some work today!

Hugh_C

5uspect wrote:

Here is one of my fake tilt shift efforts. It probably need more work tho.

edited for spelling

that's great 5uspect, where is it?

5uspect

hughchal wrote:

that's great 5uspect, where is it?

Porto in Portugal. There's some more normal shots in my Zooomr (link in sig).

leinsterman

Looks like a fun technique ... anyone want to post it in the Digital Darkroom ?

Al ??

prox

You can get those effects with a view camera as well as a tilt shift lens, with slightly less chance of vignetting.