Final Project: Fake Miniatures & Vertigo

by Nicholas Cai

Fake Miniatures

To create fake miniatures, I have the user click in 2 points on the same horizontal plane that they want to keep in focus. Then I gradually blur out more and more of the photo from those 2 points.

Fake Miniatures

New York

Mini New York

Paris

Mini Paris

Fake Miniatures

New York

Mini New York

Beef

Mini Beef

Big Sur

Mini Big Sur

Vertigo

To get the vertigo effect, I basically had to move my camera out and zooming in, and trying to keep the subject of my photo the same size in every single shot. I accomplished this by using my iPhone X, which has a 2x optical zoom. I turned on the grid mode of my camera and made sure that the subjects were always the same size in each shot by using the gridlines.

There was one big problem of trying to keep things the same size. It was really hard keeping the camera level and zooming in only a little bit each time.

Vertigo Effect

Mug

Churro