Shrinking Singapore

On October 29, 2008 · 5 Comments · In Toys

The econ­omy is shrink­ing, so what bet­ter time than now to muck around and shrink every­thing else with some spe­cial photo effects.

I recently learned about some­thing called ’tilt-shifting’, which is a pho­to­graphic tech­nique I haven’t been able to wrap my brain around, but which allows you to ‘fake’ miniturizations.

Pho­tog­ra­pher Keith Loutit man­ages to do a won­der­ful inter­pre­ta­tion of Sydney.

And what I did after look­ing at Loutit’s work was sift through my iPhoto and Flickr col­lec­tions and pick out a cou­ple of pho­tos that would lend them­selves well to ’tilt-shifting’ via Pho­to­shop, and fol­lowed the tips I found online on how to fake tilt-shift lens using Pho­to­shop.

Before:

Good Morning Singapore
Marina Bay

Bras Basah
Bras Basah

After:

Scale model of Fullerton area

Shrinking Bras Basah

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  • lin­coln

    Looks good to me.

  • Silvr

    A “tilt-shift” is a spe­cial kind of pho­to­graphic lens, used mainly for archi­tec­tural pic­tures. tak­ing a bird’s-eye view pic­ture with a tilt shift lens allows you to pro­duce pic­tures like that, with­out the need for Pho­to­shop at all.

    there’s an entire flickr group ded­i­cated to pho­to­shop sim­u­la­tions of the tilt shift effect: http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/p…

    and oblig­a­tory shame­less plug (my pic):http://www.flickr.com/photos/silvr/105952905/

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Hey thanks for that. I’ve joined the pool and sub­mit­ted these two pics.

  • http://www.miyagi.sg Mr Miyagi

    Hey thanks for that. I’ve joined the pool and sub­mit­ted these two pics.

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