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I don’t know about you but I always wished the world was as cute and controllable as it appeared to be in Thomas the Tank Engine or Thunderbirds or those pictures on the Scalextric boxes (that I could never afford to buy).
Was that just me? It was? Oh OK. Well, anyhow, it’s that kind of nostalgia that really grabs me about the Tilt Shift Miniatures you can see over at the Flickr blog. The idea also comes from a conversation I had with Dr Robert O’Shea in the Psychology Department of the University of Otago. One of his many strands of research is concerned with visual cues (one of which is blurring) that lead the brain to the conclusion of focal depth. I thought I’d have a go at it and here are the results. This is a photo taken by Samantha (I was at the wheel) when we lived in New Zealand. We’re driving back from a brief stay in the snow in Central Otago on the South Island. I’ve doctored the pic up using blur and colour adjustments in Photoshop to, hopefully, give it that table top appearance. You can check out further experiments along these lines in the illustration gallery (I didn’t know where else to put them really). All are from our years in NZ and it certainly helps that NZ locations look too ideal to be real in the first place!
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