jeffbebe 1560 Report post Posted October 21, 2013 Love this... http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/these-are-not-real-cars-just-a-mind-bending-optical-illusion#ZfbpGCX9oScH1Cki.01 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qube 3570 Report post Posted October 21, 2013 Awesome! Haha actually so awesome, dude even invented a fictional 1950s town! Lol Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
5amchris 45 Report post Posted October 21, 2013 Wow that looks pretty sweet! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2132 Report post Posted October 21, 2013 i certainly dont claim to know much about photography, but if the focus is on the little cars at the front, shouldnt the background be real blury and viseversa? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qube 3570 Report post Posted October 21, 2013 (edited) You can get background and foreground into focus by playing with depth of field and or using a specific camera lens. The blurriness you're referring to is called bokeh if u wana google it and have a read Edited October 21, 2013 by QUBE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CSET 583 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 You can get background and foreground into focus by playing with depth of field and or using a specific camera lens. The blurriness you're referring to is called bokeh if u wana google it and have a read It's quite depressing how little I know about photography. Awesome shots! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1560 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 Yep, as Kyu says, there are a number of factors that affect the depth of field. If you shoot close to the subject and/or use a narrow aperture lens you'll make the depth of field shallower so that only the subject and objects close to it appear in focus. A wide aperture lens is great for shooting cars to give that sense of depth but for shooting miniatures like this, where you want them to appear part of the real and full scale background behind, it would be better to shoot from further away using a narrow aperture to create a large depth of field so everything appears in focus. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_ethrty-Andy_ 2132 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 Yep, as Kyu says, there are a number of factors that affect the depth of field. If you shoot close to the subject and/or use a narrow aperture lens you'll make the depth of field shallower so that only the subject and objects close to it appear in focus. A wide aperture lens is great for shooting cars to give that sense of depth but for shooting miniatures like this, where you want them to appear part of the real and full scale background behind, it would be better to shoot from further away using a narrow aperture to create a large depth of field so everything appears in focus. ok so for someone that doesnt know anything about photography, basically you are saying the distance between the camera lens and the foreground objects is much greater than the distance from the foreground objects to the background? and then crop photo to suit? rather than having the camera right up close to the object which is what it looks like in the end result, is this right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1560 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 ok so for someone that doesnt know anything about photography, basically you are saying the distance between the camera lens and the foreground objects is much greater than the distance from the foreground objects to the background? and then crop photo to suit? rather than having the camera right up close to the object which is what it looks like in the end result, is this right? Kind of. The distance focal length (distance from camera to objects) in those pics wouldn't have been greater than the distance of the objects to the background. It would just have been far enough (coupled with a narrow aperture lens) to keep the objects in the foreground and the background all in focus. If you had the camera tight up to the objects the background is likely to have appeared out of focus and it also is likely to have 'miniaturised' the objects. Making them look small. This pic gives you an idea of what it would look like shooting close up to the subject (it was actually done in post production but gives you an idea of what I mean), because the depth of field is so shallow that the car isn't even all in focus it makes it appear almost 'toylike', so imagine how that would like if it was actually miniature to start with. And without... It normalises the appearance, which is really important if shooting miniatures: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil-540i 166 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 What bout if front & rear of your car is blurred?? Lets try that - see if it loses a bit of shine ae......I'm hopefull........just for comparative purposes sorta thing......... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_Matt_ 42 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 (edited) he would have used both the position of the camera and the zoom length to create the correct perspective and then use the aperture to simulate the depth he wanted. Don't know if i ever posted this before, it's a similar idea... Edited October 22, 2013 by _Matt_ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phil-540i 166 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 That's koooooool Matt...............nice!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeffbebe 1560 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 Great pic! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Michael. 2313 Report post Posted October 22, 2013 Wow, impressive stuff, like old school forced perspective movie making techniques. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
