Good Examples of Miniature Filter Photos?

[RC45]

You also need a fast shutter speed to freeze the wheels. Afterall, a diorama would not have cars with spinning wheels.

This is exactly the look/feel of a 1/24th diorama I saw years ago. Was made by a Tamiya import agent - full of mid 80's Japanese cars of coure - may even have been Tsukuba they modeled who knows. Great picture.

Yes, the best way to take these shots is to be as far away as possible. Sometimes a little help with the wide angle also works.
This is one I've managed last week at the hairpin at Tsukuba:

 

[G.T.Ace]

 

[elkayem]

HAha the Miata's look so cute in miniature photos.

 

[tomo 427 S/C]

My pics :B

 

[G.T.Ace]

 

[Icarus25]

Eiger is the perfect place to use the Miniature filter.

 

[Abraxas]

Too bad I couldn't go higher with camera

 

[G.T.Ace]

Eiger is the perfect place to use the Miniature filter.

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Nice one! And yes, Eiger is great (not only for tilt-shift). :)

 

[23Kev]

I think this is my first photomode post here. I love using the minature filter, saves me from buying a real tilt shift lens!

Is it Cape Ring.

I'll post up more as I take them...

 

[mert255]

My Mclaren MP4-12C (GT5) by Mertx, on Flickr

 

[birdyy]

 

[sebbLz]

I'm not too fond on the tilt-shift on GT5, i feel it has too much blur in my scenarios. Thats just my opinion though

 

[RC45]

You need the distance to the "model' to get the proper impression of a pinhole lense photo.

 

[sebbLz]

Yeah, i just wished i could go further out
Do these tickle your tastebuds? Oh, and thank you for the tips

 

[Stigsblkcousin]

Yeah, i just wished i could go further out
Do these tickle your tastebuds? Oh, and thank you for the tips

The Gallardo really has a model car look to it. I like it!👍

 

[sebbLz]

Thank you! Its such a beatiful car - I love it to bits

 

[stig's helmet]

my attempt

 

[MidianGTX]

The first 7 photos on this page don't look miniature at all, no wonder you don't like it sebbLz, you're doing it aaaaall wrong.

 

[Terronium-12]

Two of my own that I grabbed from my gallery.​

 

[ragnar666]

this is about the only decent one i've come up with and its not really that good lol

havn't really played around with the filter that much yet though tbh.

 

[RedSuinit]

I have a really good one that I will post later.

 

[strada]

Some good examples of this effect in this thread and a lot of very poor ones.

The reasoning is simple. In normal photography, if you are taking a picture of a landscape or something from a large distance, everything in the photo is generally far away and thus all in focus when setting your lense to infinity focal length. When photographing something small (diorama/model), you get it to look the same but your camera is at a much smaller focal length and thus with a large aperture only a small portion in front of and behind the subject remain in focus. The rest of the fore/background are blurry.

Our brains know this from experience even without knowing the exact mechanics of why. Hence the filter.

This trick for our brain is simulated with a double blur filter BUT it has limitations. For it to work properly, the shot should be a from far away, zoomed out to capture a lot of fore and background with the subject somewhere in the middle 'focused' zone. This will convey the illusion.

All these pictures of cars close up with half their bumpers out of focus and half in focus and then background out of focus do not accomplish the intended purpose.

ex.
This is excellent:

This is not so much:

 

[BryCivicSi]

 

[RC45]

^ You need a very fast shutter speed to freeze the wheels - a model in a static display will have stationary wheels.

This is essentially the mood you are trying to portray - miniature moments frozen in time.

 

[BryCivicSi]

^ You need a very fast shutter speed to freeze the wheels - a model in a static display will have stationary wheels.

This is essentially the mood you are trying to portray - miniature moments frozen in time.

Ah, I figured the thread was for pics that used the filter, not solely ones that created the miniature effect.

 

[OwensRacing]

Loving the miniatures!

 

[Stigsblkcousin]

How about these..



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[ryan_custard13]

 

[TSLRich]

I had to do one....

 

[raz_10]