Sequence of Question Mark Block photos
I created a vertigo shot effect by take a sequence of photos on the same subject, keeping the subject at relatively the same location in each photo. For each subsequent photo, I would move further away from the subject while increasing the zoom on my camera. Some shots may seem a little off, since I found it a bit difficult to keep the subject aligned in each photo. Also, despite my efforts, I may have not stayed in a straight line while moving back as I took the shots, and I also had some space/movement limitations. All photos were taken with a Sony Alpha 850 camera, with a Tamron AF 70-200mm lens. Photos were taken at my apartment in Berkeley.
Sequence of Question Mark Block photos
Question Mark Block gif
Sequence of DittoPuff photos
DittoPuff gif
To mimic the effect of tilt shift to create the illusion of fake minatures on a photo, we first specify a focus line. After selecting a point in the area of an image where we would like to place our focus, we use the point to specfiy a horizontal or vertical focus line. Then we can define the depth of field by specifying a window around the line, or the amount of pixels around the line we want to keep in our focus, creating a focus rectangle. Then, as we get further from our region of focus, we increasingly blur the image. This can be done by creating a guassian stack of some levels, and using pixels from the images in deeper levels in the stack in our minature image as we get further from the focus. At the end, we adjust the color by increasing the saturation to increase the effect of our minature illusion. For the following images, the original is on the left, and the fake minature is on the right.
Buildings (self-taken)
Library Area (self-taken)
