Waiting for Godzilla

Even though I know they are real I still have a tough time believing it with some of those pictures. Particularly the one of the desert outside of Las Vegas. The scale seems way off, but it certainly isn't. If I didn't know they were real I might be happier just appreciating them for incredibly done scale miniatures

Yeah. They've been "filtered" according to the article. I wanted to try this out myself, so I found a nice aerial photo online and brought it into Photoshop. The trick is to mess a bit with the perspective by making things not get so small into the distance so quickly, and then blurring the immediate foreground and background.

That's no Photoshop job. That was all done in-camera with a special perspective-correcting lens. Usually they're pretty expensive, but it might be possible with something like a Lensbaby (http://www.lensbabies.com/pages/lensbaby2.php) or a PC Lens in a Cap (http://www.loreo.com/pages/products/loreo_pccap.html). Maybe.

If I still shot a lot of 35mm, I'd really like one of those Lens in a Cap things.

So I got curious. :D These pictures are too wide for the forum, so click to see 'em full-size. Trivia: you can see directly into my room in this picture!

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Very, very, very sloppy. But cool anyway. Perspective was corrected with the Crop tool. Then I made a very sloppy depth map in an alpha channel and applied the Lens Blur filter (sloppily). I'm amused.

In the same way, take a look at:

http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c22183