Fake Model Photography

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By Bre Pettis
Posted 2006/09/01 @ 5:02 pm
Category Art & Design

It doesn’t take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they’re looking at a railway set rather than the real world. – Link

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7 Responses to Fake Model Photography

onebitpixel on September 1st, 2006 at 2:17 pm said:

Great write up on this technique – tilt/shift photography.

And of course there is a flickr pool too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tiltshift/

Had success doing this sort of treatment to images using Flash 8 – using the filter applications and gradiant masks in multiple layers. Then dynamically changing them to add some zoom effects…

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RedEyedMonstar on September 1st, 2006 at 3:28 pm said:

im sorry, but is it only me that thinks the first picture looks better that the edited one? that one that they use for the post looks awful.

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Oracle1729 on September 2nd, 2006 at 2:00 am said:

I agree, RedEye. The end result looks like a normal picture with all but a band in the middle smudged.

I think the effect he’s going for is a very narrow depth of field, but he fails at that, it looks blurred, not out of focus.

Even if it did look like a narrow DoF, I don’t see why that should make it look like model.

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sputnik3 on September 2nd, 2006 at 9:37 am said:

I had a lot of fun doing this a few months back.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62463008@N00/

As you see, it can be used for good OR evil.

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sputnik3 on September 2nd, 2006 at 9:39 am said:

I had a lot of fun doing this a few months back:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/62463008@N00/

As you can see, it can be used for good OR evil.

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nlocco on October 1st, 2006 at 7:30 pm said:

That is what I thought at first too. I found the link here, where you can also see the vacation photos.

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JeffDM on January 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am said:

Not only is it obviously not the same thing, I really don’t like this kind of effect.

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