William Choe Frank
CS194-26 Final Project: Vertigo and Fake Miniatures

Vertigo

Overview

For this project, I reproduced the famous in-camera effect: the dolly zoom, also known as the "Vertigo shot". You can achieve the effect by using a camera with a zoom lense. First zoom in on a subject while standing a fair distance away. Then take your first shot. Then take steps forward and zoom-out such that the subject remains the "same size" reletive to the previous photo you took. Repeat for a total of 4 times to see the effect.

Results

Some Rocks


A Dustpan

Bells & Whistles: Animated gifs

Fake Miniatures / Tilt Shift

Overview

For this project, I simulated the effect of a selective focus camera. What this means is that a user selects a focus point which will be used to create the fake depth of field for the output image. Then a blurring (Gaussian) filter is applied to the rest of the photo, getting increasingly more blurry the farther away from the depth of field we get.

The blurring was implemented using a Gaussian stack.

Results

City


Spec Image


Forest


Photo I took of my coffee


Photo I took of a lense

Bells and Whistles

The photos I took (the last 2) of the coffee and lense were with a high quality lense. It doesn't look like much happened because the camera itself does a good job of isolating the subject so the blurring is very noticatble.