The Vertigo Shot is a camera technique done by moving the camera further from the object while zooming in (or vice versa) so that the object will stay the same size. In doing so, the background and its details becomes bigger or smaller (depending on which way you do it). One minor difficulty I encountered was making sure the object aligns itself from one shot to another. The camera I used was a Canon eos Rebel t3i.
In this part of the project, we will attempt to replicate Tilt Shift technique in photography. Usually this can easily be done on a photo editing software like Photoshop but here we will do it by code. We first define a focus line on the image by selecting two points. Then we set the depth of field based on our focus line and increasingly blur the image around the focus plane. To do that, I created a mask depending on where my focus line is. We then make the image a bit more saturated to make it look more toy-like. Here are some photos I took while in Japan as examples.
Original Image; No selective focusing/blurring
Comparison between a photo taken from a camera with selective focus through tweaking with Depth of field and Apeture settings with tilt shift done by code
