It’s a Small World After All…

January 27, 2006 | General, Photography | By: Mark VandeWettering

Check out these cool landscape photos by Olivo Barbieri. He takes photos of landscapes, and then modifies them to make them look as if they were pictures of tiny models. They give a very curious case of perspective.

Addendum: Juan read more carefully than I, and explains that these are shot with a tilt-shift lens. I’m even more impressed.

Addendum2: You can get some more examples of this tilt-shift wizardry on this Japanese website.

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Comments

Comment from Juan Buhler
Time 1/27/2006 at 7:36 pm

Actually, he uses a tilt-shift lens, and not postprocessing, to get the shallow focus effect.

Comment from Theo Honohan
Time 1/27/2006 at 10:11 pm

Fantastic! great pictures. sounds like it is just a question of keeping the film surface vertical and moving the lens around, so true verticals in the image remain parallel. I’m not sure quite why this makes the scene look so small. Maybe the very small depth of field also helps by making it look like it has been taken with a macro lens.