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3/30/08 at 9:51am
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For those of you who really appreciate photograhy, I introduce to you..."Fake model photography". I stumbled upon this site yesterday and this technique really fascinates me. I'd love to try this out once I get more into photography and get a real camera.

Yes, all of these photos are of real, full-size structures. The photographer is named Olivo Barbieriand and he uses a a special “tilt shift lens” from a helicopter to create the illusion that the structures and scenery are little, detailed models. He obviously also uses Photoshop blur methods and changes the colors to make it look more as if it's built from polystyrene and lichen.

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3/30/08 at 10:15am
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wow that is so neat

thanks for sharing
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3/30/08 at 10:47am
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CRAZE!!!!!!!!
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3/30/08 at 10:48am
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The first time I saw these I would've bet my life on them being models. They look so fake.
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3/30/08 at 1:45pm
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i'm using a lens right now that does this. it's fun.





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3/30/08 at 2:18pm
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Originally Posted by Afro1989 View Post
The first time I saw these I would've bet my life on them being models. They look so fake.
It's a total headtrip. I first saw this guy's work in a short-film format, and I was convinced they were models. He did a fly-over of Vegas that is amazing.

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3/30/08 at 2:43pm
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I actually have made several of these. You can take any regular picture and achieve the same effect in photoshop. It is very simple to replicate actually. Such a simple trick can make a great effect.

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3/30/08 at 2:46pm
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^ Tutorial please.
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3/30/08 at 2:59pm
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Well, the idea can simply be explained as blurring everything except for the focus area. If you look at all of the above pictures, the outer extremities are blurry in comparison to the focus point.

When I do them, I create a duplicate image over the actual image, and then do a guassian blurr on the bottom, original picture. Then on the second layer, create a layer mask and use a large, soft brush to leave only your focus area left on that layer. (My favorite way to do them)

You can also use quickmask if you're familiar. But really, as with literally anything in photoshop, there are several ways you can achieve the effect. I just use the above mentioned one because its very customizable, thanks to the layer mask.

Heres a good tutorial for the tilt shift effect using quick mask for the main blurring process.

But you could probably just search for tilt shift tutorials in google and find a million of em. The effect is very popular.

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3/30/08 at 3:03pm
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Thanks so much eclipse. I'm learning slowly.
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3/30/08 at 3:07pm
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Hey, I'm in photoshop half of my life >.<
If you got questions, pm me
Id love to help!

jawnz

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3/30/08 at 3:40pm
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what program do u use for photoshop?
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3/30/08 at 4:02pm
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what program do u use for photoshop?
lol
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3/30/08 at 4:25pm
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Haha, I think he meant what version. CS3

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3/30/08 at 6:56pm
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