Miniature Cities By Ben Thomas
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mini - melbourne - flinders street station/federation square
Ben Thomas is on a mission to shrink cities! The technique Ben uses to get the added Depth of Field in his pictures is tilt-shift photography, that makes aerial photographs of real scenes look like miniature models. This technique is charming, as it applies to creating a ‘model-sized’ scenery that is catching on all over the globe (mostly via flickr, the online photo sharing community). There’s a nice detailed explanation of tilt-shift photography here.
The general idea behind Tilt/Shift photography is that special lenses can be bent from side to side (tilt) and also from from their normal parallel, in-line, plane (shift). The tilt seems to create photos with very specific, and changeable, focal point within the photo while the shift action can be used to correct geometric distortion (converging lines). However, both types of photography yield amazing, and unrealistic, results.
Some [10] more fine examples of Thomas’ tilt-shift technique after the jump.
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January 10th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
why are the pictures blurred?
ruins everything
February 27th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
the photo has to be blurred apart from a certain line of focus, otherwise it would just not work!
April 16th, 2008 at 2:43 am
Scale?
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 am
[…] One, Lori Nix, works with miniatures to imagine a different reality and the other two, Ben Thomas and Olivo Barbieri, take photos with the intent of turning reality into toyland with disarming […]
September 8th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
[…] You can see more of Ben Thomas’s work here. […]