Features Podcasts Family Video Comics Music Tech Science Books Film & TV Games ✚

Jill

Web Zen: photo zen

Xeni Jardin at 6:43 pm Fri, Nov 30, 2007

— FEATURED —

Book Review

The Man Who Laughs: grotesque Victor Hugo potboiler was the basis for The Joker

Feature

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

Book Review

The Twelve-Fingered Boy - mesmerizing YA horror novel

— FOLLOW US —

Boing Boing is on Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to our RSS feed or daily email.

 

— POLICIES —

Except where indicated, Boing Boing is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution

 

— FONTS —

Tweet
Kindle

- todd hido
- sara hobbs
- mused
- artcoup
- city shrinker
- cowscapes
- a plat venture
- postcard polaroid
- flickrvision
- deleted images

previously on web zen:
- photo zen 2006 pt. 2
- photo zen 2006 pt. 1

Web Zen Home and Archives, Store (Thanks Frank!)

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

MORE:  Art and Design

More at Boing Boing

Eurovision 2013: An American in London

The technology that links taxonomy and Star Trek

  • Lars Pohlmann

    The effect has been copied a bit too much in the past (by me as well).
    If you want to find something original, search for “Myklos Gaal”. He’s been doing this before it was hip, and he’s not using photoshop, but a large-format-camera and a real tilt-shift lens.

    Go to his exhibitions, his prints are *very* large.

  • Lars Pohlmann

    Sorry, it’s “Miklos Gaal”, not “Myklos Gaal”.

  • Evil Jim

    The secret? Just make everything blurry.

  • porn for creative souls

    here is a guide on how to achieve that effect (making things look like small miniature models)

    http://scophy.com/2007/10/16/photo-tuesdays-how-to-create-a-fake-miniature-environment/

    and an artist that exhibits similar photos

    http://scophy.com/2007/10/09/photo-tuesdays-little-people/

  • LukeDaDuke

    Here is another one to create fake minature models:
    http://www.photographyjam.com/articles/52/the-tilt-shift-miniature-fake-technique-in-photoshop-cs-a-simple-how-to

    You can find several groups on Flickr too:
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/
    http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift1-2miniatures/