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Fuelrock | Thu, 2006-01-26 18:08

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

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Korteenea | Sat, 2006-01-28 19:06

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.

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phatcactus | Sun, 2006-01-29 17:24

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.

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phatcactus | Sun, 2006-01-29 18:05

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!

becomes

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.

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ozskry | Tue, 2006-01-31 12:28

In the same way, take a look at:

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

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