Fantastic city scapes

[cy88]

Deceptive aerial photos by Olivio Barbieri. Love the "miniature" effect he manages....








www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=1760

[simpo two]

Interesting how we see a shallow DOF and it makes think they're close-ups of models!

Lensbaby maybe?

[tog]

the website said:

He achieves the distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens.

I've got one of his books - great stuff.

[imperialism2024]

So how do we know they are real?

[chris.mapey]

That's got to be Photoshop'd surely.

DoF is one thing, but how can you get a band of focus at least 100m across, then have that much blur on the background.

IMHO, that's why they look model like, it's due to the fake DoF

Chris

[UKBob]

chris.mapey said:

That's got to be Photoshop'd surely.

Certainly looks like it doesnt it

[D_Mike]

Rome is such a beautiful city - I like the photos too!

[RobDickinson]

Its either photoshoped or something like a lensbaby.

Look at(especialy) the first one, the out of focus blur is circular around the center, a true lense would be liniar and gradiented away from the point of focus right?

[tog]

RobDickinson said:

Its either photoshoped or something like a lensbaby. Look at(especialy) the first one, the out of focus blur is circular around the center, a true lense would be liniar and gradiented away from the point of focus right?

There is no Photoshop work here. As the photographer says in the link in the first post, it is a tilt-shift lens. You can control the depth of field, in terms of both actual depth and the direction of the plane of focus, very accurately with these. Think of it as a lensbaby with precise, repeatable control and excellent quality glass.

Look at the bottom picture here, but think of it as the other way around - instead of using the forwards tilt to obtain extreme depth of field, you could clearly tilt it backwards to obtain very shallow depth of field.

His exhibition is coming to London soon too:

The Guardian website said:

Olivo Barbieri's Site Specific exhibition opens at the Bloomberg Space, 50 Finsbury Square, London EC2A, on April 7

[FourWheelDrift]

If you want to know how to do this in Photoshop have a look here - http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutoria

[s2kredmist]

I would have thought that even with a tiltshift lens, the distance from subject would have had more dof than this. I would have thought also that due to the amount of light the lens must have been stopped down a bit which gives even more dof.
Just looks too false to me, in fact it looks like Google Earth when you move the plane.

[FourWheelDrift]

Not if you look at the link I have provided just above your reply to see how it's done.

[wolves_wanderer]

FourWheelDrift said:

Not if you look at the link I have provided just above your reply to see how it's done.

Here are some I did on my own pics with the above technique. What do you all think?

[FourWheelDrift]

I like them

[simpo two]

Spot on!

[cy88]

Excellent!

A touch more contrast (in fact, I just ran them through the MS Photo Editor "auto balance" feature when viewing these) and they pretty much replicate Barbieri's shots.

So, do we think Barbieri used PS???

>> Edited by cy88 on Monday 6th March 15:13

[simpo two]

Ta-da



>> Edited by simpo two on Monday 6th March 21:32

[rhubarb]

Simpo Two, Wivenhoe, in fact Old Wivenhoe Quay - amazing, when did you take that picture, I live there, well just around the corner in the dry dock - if you've been there recently you'll know it's very dry as it's sprung a leak.

wolves_wanderer - excellent pictures, really capture the technique, I especially like wembley stadium.

>> Edited by rhubarb on Monday 6th March 22:23

[FunkyNige]

simpo two said:

Ta-da >> Edited by simpo two on Monday 6th March 21:32

Doesn't work as well as the others IMHO, I think this effect looks better with smaller buildings and more stuff in the frame.

[simpo two]

FunkyNige said:

Doesn't work as well as the others IMHO, I think this effect looks better with smaller buildings and more stuff in the frame.

Yep, I agree. It definitely looks best on aerial shots - this is a nice bay I made with sawdust and foam rubber painted green:

rhubarb said:

Simpo Two, Wivenhoe, in fact Old Wivenhoe Quay - amazing, when did you take that picture, I live there...

BING! Double Word Score!

Yesterday! I noticed the 'dry dock' and thought it had been drained so little kids couldn't fall in and drown. Have to say a nice piece of grass would look nicer, no?

>> Edited by simpo two on Monday 6th March 23:06