CS194-26 Final Project: Fake Miniatures and Vertigo Shot

cs194-26-afc, Kaiwen Zhou

  1. Project 1: Fake Miniatures
  2. Project 2: Vertigo Shot

Project 1: Fake Miniatures

In this project, I created "fake miniatures" by simulating tilt shift, an effect by selective focus cameras. First, we select a point that determines the horizonal focus line for our function. We keep the original image within a specified width near our focus line, and use a Gaussian stack to fill in successively farther pieces of our image, with further parts of our image being more blurry than closer parts. I had a small width interval before I would switch from layer to layer of my Gaussian stack. I also increased my saturation by 60% to increase the miniature effect.

Results

New York

SF

I took the following photos and then performed the same process on them.

Apartment

Campanile

Project 2: Vertigo Shot

In this project, we duplicated a famous in-camera effect called the dolly zoom. This is also known as the Vertigo shot, made famous by a scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Essentially, you take a series of images while moving your camera closer to an object. You zoom out more the closer you are while keeping the relative size of the object stable, creating a cool visual effect.

Results

shoe
shiba