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Sunday, April 08, 2007

Model Cities

Don't these look like model cities? Amazingly, they're actually real. Italian photographer Olivo Barbieri shoots from helicopters, but to create the plastic-y look, he uses a tilt-shift lens, which allows him to control exactly what's in focus. "Like in a written page, we don’t read [it as an] image but one line at a time," Barbieri says here. We loved his work so much that we featured it in the first issue of baby Bene.

10 comments:

  1. This technique is very clever, and takes advantage of what we expect from the tight depths-of-field when photographing actual models in closeup. The lens-tilt seems to put a strip across the frame as the zone in focus, although the optics must still be challenging.
    Have you seen photos taken of reflections in polished surfaces/beaten metal, and the wonderful distortion effects these provide (vs. the reality)?

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  2. oh cool! no i haven't seen those kinds of photos, but they sound really cool. i love photos that challenge our perceptions of reality.

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  3. I love your blog. It is interesting from many perspectives.

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  4. love the model, and love this city!!!

    Lorex lw2702
    ge simon xt

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  5. scary to see such a beautiful picture out there. I wish I could stay in there for the rest of my days.

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  6. scary to see such a beautiful picture out there.

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