Posted on 04/28/2009 2:07:43 PM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
Keith Loutit tilt-shift photography and filming to create amazing pictures and movies, that make real people and objects appear as miniatures. So even though it looks like claymation, or tiny little models, it is real footage, of real people and things. Amazing. In this video Keith got to film a rescue training session with the Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service.
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obama and his handlers have 200 million of these on order and require they be used when looking at the budget.
Very cool! I’ve seen this done with photography, but this is the first video I’ve seen.
Fairly simple. The key is the increased speed and missing frames as well as the near distance looking out of focus.
A remarkable illusion.
You could probably do this with a clear filter smeared with vaseline or sprayed with hair spray.
You are right about the very-high-shutter speed... The shutter has to fast enough to “freeze” that rotor blade on the helicopter, for instance.
The smear on the lens would be a bad move... you just need a narrow depth-of-field, which you can do by using a telephoto lens with a large aperture... Well, the large aperture is most necessary for a narrow-depth-of-field, but the telephoto lens exaggerates the depth-of-field narrowness.
Depth-of-field refers to how much “depth” can be in-focus at one time. The ultimate depth-of-field is in the pinhole-camera, which has an aperture so small (a pinhole) that it doesn’t even require a lens.
Shrinkage. Significant shrinkage.
ping for later
It’s not depth of field but appears to be created using a camera with shifts and tilts and he simply tilts until a section is out of focus.
Great technique.
“It’s not depth of field but appears to be created using a camera with shifts and tilts and he simply tilts until a section is out of focus.
Great technique.”
OK... I think I get it... he tilts the lens relative to the plane of “film” to throw the edges out-of-focus?
It’s cool, that’s for sure.
Thanks.
More likely that he tilts or swings the film plane, an old technique from view cameras that is usually used to to extend the depth of field, but in this case he uses it to throw parts of the picture out of focus.
This guy is quite clever.
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