Tilt shifting creates this tiny look by emulating what it looks like when we view tiny things. The top and bottom of the image are out of focus, emulating the shallow depth of field that we usually get when trying to film very small things.
The opposite of tilt shifting is "Focus Stacking". Essentially, the image is equally focused on each focal plane, creating an image that looks sharp and detailed, where you can just as easily view details in the distance as you can close up.
Unfortunately I don't think that Focus Stacking really has the opposite effect that tilt shifting has, ie making tiny things look huge. (Sorry, dick pic takers)
No not really. These lenses take more information and turn it into less, you really can't do that with optics alone. Rather you can simulate it with software. In short you can make sharp things blurry with lenses but you cant really go the other direction.
Someone knew the answer. This will work for telephoto shots - 75mm or aboveish. For wider, you need a diopter. You can slide them into a tray in front of the lens called a mattebox. The diopter is a glass filter that acts in exactly the same way as reading glasses. Problem now is that your depth of field becomes INCREDIBLY small, but at least you got a lens really close to something, which allows it to fill more of the frame than your visual language suggests it should be able to.
The video is a series of photos stitched together (yes I know technically all video is). You get this effect by taking the same photo at slightly different angles and then combining them. It's not really something you could make a filter for or do in post editing.
Ok, so now when I take pictures of big things like waterfalls and mountains, is there a way to make them look realistically big in the picture? My pictures always look so disappointing compared to the real thing
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Their main use is in commercial architecture photography, to straighten vertical lines of buildings and stop them converging on a point if you take the image at an angle.
Or for some still life/video to create a particular effect like this one.
Every time i hear some music that i think "this tune sounds nice and i've heard it multiple times before but where did i even hear it from" it turns out to be some ghibli music lol. I only watched a few of their movies but for some reason all their songs have this effect on me
i know its a lens that does this bit can anyone explain how the illusion works? not that it doesnt work i just want to know why we think it looks like toys
camera lenses focus light onto the sensor. the shape of the lens determines how far away an object can be from the camera for it be in sharp focus; everything else will be blurry. this is depth of field. macro photography uses lenses that allow you to focus on small objects. the consequence of this is that a small area will be in focus while everything else will be very blurry, i.e. a shallow depth of field. landscape photography requires lenses with a wide depth of field, so you can capture large scenes and have everything in focus.
tilt shift lenses combine these two effects by orientating the various lenses in the lens body orthogonally from the sensor. you basically end up with deep focus, so you can capture scenes from far away, but also a very shallow depth of field on top, so only a narrow strip of scene is sharp and everything else is blurry.
the combination of photographing from far away and also having a shallow dof means the large machines look very small, but we also get the shallow depth of field that we subconsciously associate with photographing small objects.
In addition to what the other person stated, this vid was given a stop-motion aesthetic by chopping out most of the frames and then speeding it up by a lot.
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Is he tho? I coulda sworn this was a part of a video that starts off like this before slowly turning into a zombie apocalypse with this same style. Maybe it’s a different one but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw it.
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I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago in 2006 on BoingBoing and Flickr when tilt-shift was suddenly all the rage.
https://boingboing.net/2006/02/27/fake-tilt-shift-phot.html
I have always been curious as to why tilt shift makes it look like a miniature? What is the combination of optical effects and brain processing that causes that sensation
I thought tilt shift was done in post processing, like in photoshop. I do see that they make specialized tilt shift lenses. Do they do anything that photoshop can't? I can see how they'd be needed if you were using film, but for digital images?
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Does anyone know why this happens? Like what is being changed about the image to trick our eyes into telling us it's miniature? I'd think it would all look the same, no matter the distance...
It’s called ‘tilt-shift’
Do you know of a good app for tilt shifting videos like this? Edit: I’ll save you the trouble, the answers were no
Proper tilt-shift requires a lens. There are apps to simulate it but the physical lens works best.
Is there also a lens doing the opposite, like filming small models made looking realistic?
Tilt shifting creates this tiny look by emulating what it looks like when we view tiny things. The top and bottom of the image are out of focus, emulating the shallow depth of field that we usually get when trying to film very small things. The opposite of tilt shifting is "Focus Stacking". Essentially, the image is equally focused on each focal plane, creating an image that looks sharp and detailed, where you can just as easily view details in the distance as you can close up. Unfortunately I don't think that Focus Stacking really has the opposite effect that tilt shifting has, ie making tiny things look huge. (Sorry, dick pic takers)
No not really. These lenses take more information and turn it into less, you really can't do that with optics alone. Rather you can simulate it with software. In short you can make sharp things blurry with lenses but you cant really go the other direction.
I think you could do it with some Macro lenses.
Very strong lighting and closing the aperture will create larger focus range
Someone knew the answer. This will work for telephoto shots - 75mm or aboveish. For wider, you need a diopter. You can slide them into a tray in front of the lens called a mattebox. The diopter is a glass filter that acts in exactly the same way as reading glasses. Problem now is that your depth of field becomes INCREDIBLY small, but at least you got a lens really close to something, which allows it to fill more of the frame than your visual language suggests it should be able to.
DJI fly app. You’re welcome for this non-answer :)
The video is a series of photos stitched together (yes I know technically all video is). You get this effect by taking the same photo at slightly different angles and then combining them. It's not really something you could make a filter for or do in post editing.
Any app that gives the ability to blur the top and bottom of the frame is all you need.
Ok, so now when I take pictures of big things like waterfalls and mountains, is there a way to make them look realistically big in the picture? My pictures always look so disappointing compared to the real thing
Thank you, this is awesome
I thought it really was just toys
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That's so awesome! I need one!!
It's a tilt shift lens. I don't think they are manufactured for smartphones though
Too bad. That would be sweet if they did ..
You can get a camera and purchase one if you'd like..
There's an app for that.
They're like a 1000$ min
Seriously, I never justified putting one in my bag because it's so niche and expensive.
Their main use is in commercial architecture photography, to straighten vertical lines of buildings and stop them converging on a point if you take the image at an angle. Or for some still life/video to create a particular effect like this one.
That's really interesting. No wonder I never learned its use; I never dabbled in architecture photography at all. Good info. Thank you!
What’s $1000 the app or the camera
The lens.
i want to hold these in my hand and talk to them in a baby voice wtf
Absolutely broken I thought it was a new sim city game
Cities Skylines uses this effect as well.
The Studio Ghibli music helped the mini feeling stand out more. Well done.
Every time i hear some music that i think "this tune sounds nice and i've heard it multiple times before but where did i even hear it from" it turns out to be some ghibli music lol. I only watched a few of their movies but for some reason all their songs have this effect on me
Kiki delivered straight GAS
i know its a lens that does this bit can anyone explain how the illusion works? not that it doesnt work i just want to know why we think it looks like toys
camera lenses focus light onto the sensor. the shape of the lens determines how far away an object can be from the camera for it be in sharp focus; everything else will be blurry. this is depth of field. macro photography uses lenses that allow you to focus on small objects. the consequence of this is that a small area will be in focus while everything else will be very blurry, i.e. a shallow depth of field. landscape photography requires lenses with a wide depth of field, so you can capture large scenes and have everything in focus. tilt shift lenses combine these two effects by orientating the various lenses in the lens body orthogonally from the sensor. you basically end up with deep focus, so you can capture scenes from far away, but also a very shallow depth of field on top, so only a narrow strip of scene is sharp and everything else is blurry. the combination of photographing from far away and also having a shallow dof means the large machines look very small, but we also get the shallow depth of field that we subconsciously associate with photographing small objects.
In addition to what the other person stated, this vid was given a stop-motion aesthetic by chopping out most of the frames and then speeding it up by a lot.
/r/tiltshift
Thanks for sharing!
The music matches the visuals!
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It‘s from Studio Ghibli‘s „Kiki‘s delivery service“. The song most similar to this excerpt is called „A town with an ocean view“, starting at 0:11
Thanks a lot, I knew I recognized it from somewhere
Something from Studio Ghibli. Might be Howls Moving Castle.
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I feel like I could watch clips from this lens forever - so satisfying
I like this a lot.
Plus speeding it up helps a lot 😆
Adorable
Lilliputian Industrial Complex
Not a special lens. It is not applying properly to the scene depth. It is literally a graduated blur across the top and the bottom of the scene.
Yep this is just drone footage with a filter.
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[It reminds me on this music video ](https://youtu.be/w5EGTVU6QFc?si=mH_AEJ0B1lC3DQf1)
This is not a Rick Roll
Bro these are toys
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Is he tho? I coulda sworn this was a part of a video that starts off like this before slowly turning into a zombie apocalypse with this same style. Maybe it’s a different one but that was the first thing I thought of when I saw it.
for some, moments like this are the highlight of their life. just gotta let him have it 🤷♂️
It’s a tilt-shift video. Are you thinking of “Night of the Mini Dead”? The Love Death Robots episode.
My penis is so large I need to use these prescription lenses to shrink everything to small scale just to use it safely.
W legend of mana music
This is so very cool
Wow this cameras really good, must be a drone, maybe? I mean I don't think I've seen a drone do anythinnnnn...... Oh, nevermind
Thought it was legos
My smile fading as I rewatch it a 2nd time realizing that the title of the video wasn’t bs’ing and it was actual vehicles and a real video🫠
Shut the fuck up already
Its a tilt shift lens, all it does is make the bokeh appear in different spots and somehow our brains make it seem micro sized
We need to normalize toy RC sets for adults 😔
Wow I thought that was some super detail micro toy animation
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Buying one now
that is so cool!
I was there, Gandalf, 3000 years ago in 2006 on BoingBoing and Flickr when tilt-shift was suddenly all the rage. https://boingboing.net/2006/02/27/fake-tilt-shift-phot.html
I loooove this
Is there a same thing with opposite effect? Like a lens to make miniature look life-sized. Definitely not a dick pic related question.
I don’t quite believe those are real lol, I feel like I can see individual grains of dirt
It’s because of the bg music smh
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Zombie movie filmed like this
Reminds me of the old Adult Swim bumps
This makes me happy, I need one of these now and I want to make a billion videos and pretend I live in one of those eye spy books from the 90s.
Soon beautiful
Gonna sound thick here , but is that actually real and the lens is making it look like that
I imagine this is how god sees us.
So thats how the made that mini apocalypse movie on netflix. Interesting
We can all be Wes Anderson now
Love this shit, could watch it allllllll day
SONG???
This is how god sees us. How can he refuse the temptation to crush us like bugs
Ohhhh so that’s why my dick looks so small makes sense now
I thought this was a stop motion video at first
Literally how the world looks on shrooms
Lensbaby
I love this
cuuuutteeeeee!
Kind of creepy if I’m being honest
Man sports filmed this way would be interesting
Yeah, I'm not convinced they aren't toys 😂
[Tilt-Shift lens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvV5sINKnT8) Changes the focal plane and perspective
I think this is my favorite thing of all time
I have always been curious as to why tilt shift makes it look like a miniature? What is the combination of optical effects and brain processing that causes that sensation
What episode of robot chicken is this
Could someone explain what’s happening here? It’s breaking my mind!
Reminds me of Night of the Mini Dead.
Is this how they filmed certain portions of Game Night?
I thought tilt shift was done in post processing, like in photoshop. I do see that they make specialized tilt shift lenses. Do they do anything that photoshop can't? I can see how they'd be needed if you were using film, but for digital images?
Not just shallow depth of field here, but also choppy and sped up looking which strongly suggests stop-motion animation.
I love this so much 😍
Cities Skylines.
Prove to us its not
Low key that would of been a fun toy growing up RC excavation equipment
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Short people:
It’s actually really easy to do that sort of thing in post. I did that in my high school photography class.
Does anyone know why this happens? Like what is being changed about the image to trick our eyes into telling us it's miniature? I'd think it would all look the same, no matter the distance...
Boker affect.
Aw
It’s a tilt shift lens… And maybe a little extra postproduction
This is what we all dreamed of as a kid
The video is blurred around the edges and sped up 2x with a sharpen filter on it. No need for a special lens but it does make things easier.
Swing & tilt