In this project, we were responsible for producing a dolly zoom effect with a optical zoom camera. This means that we start far back on the max zoom, and gradually get closer and closer while zooming out. We make sure to keep the target/foreground of the photo at a constant size while zooming out/moving closer, so it seems like the background is changing while the target remains the same. Here are three results:

In the trash picture, we can see the wall next to the trash can receding out as the zoom becomes closer to the trash can.
In the lamp picture, we can see the pillars next to it receding out as we zoom in on the lamp.

In the eshleman hall letters, we can again see the pillars receding out.

Next, I did fake miniatures: In this project, we were responsible for creating a tilt shift effect with regular photos. The idea is that if we blur the area outside a focus region while keeping the focus region unchanged, it seems like the photo was from extremely up close, effectively making the image seem like everything in it is extremely small. Here are four results along with their original image side by side:

In this landscape of SF, we can see the blur on the picture makes the buildings in SF look really small.

blurring the region outside of the cable car makes it look like a camera was focused on a really small cable car.


This is a picture I took of my hometown, DC: blurring everything except for the people make them look really small.

This is a picture I took of an exhibit of large glossy rocks at the Asian Art Museum: blurring the two rocks at the top makes the middle one look much smaller. They were around 6 feet wide in reality.

This was a failure case: the background of the sushi (the wood table) was too constant, so blurring it had barely no effect on the perception of the sushi.