Sam Zhou
CS194-26-aff

Final Project

Vertigo Shot

For this project, my biggest struggle was keeping the object the same size as we moved forward. Between shaky hands and a lack of great reference points for the markers in the viewfinder, it was very difficult to keep the object the same size and position. After a few tries, I did manage to get a few sequences that were not too bad. Ideally I would have gotten more images but even after taking pictures at ~10 positions from start to end, it was tough to get even more than 4 photos which looked decent together. The camera I used is Nikon D90 with a 18mm to 200mm lens.

Here are the two sequences I produced with some of my friends as the object of focus.

Jehan

Scott

Bells and Whistles - Gifs

Here are the gifs I assembled from the sequences. They turned out okay but not amazing. The gif does show the effect much better than the static sequences however.

Fake Miniatures

The process of creating fake miniatures is rather simple. We simply define a horizontal band which we wish to keep in focus and gradually blur the photo more as we move farther from this horizontal band. This makes the photo feel like it is of a small miniature set instead of a large scene. Our brain associates images like this with small scales because if you actually took a photo of a small scene, only part of it could be kept in focus.

The three numbers next to each example are the parameters fed into the program for these photos. The first number is the percentage of the height of the photo which is kept in focus. The second number is the size of each successive blur level band. The last is the size of the gaussian kernal used to blur the image.

Here are some examples using photos found online.