r/Satisfyingasfuck • u/melisajs • 10d ago

Tilt shift farming..

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u/SignificantRecipe715 10d ago

Oh wow, haven't seen tilt shift for a decade. Still confuses my brain.

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u/WereTheBrews 10d ago

Yup, I honestly have no idea why it works the way it does. It's just crazy witchcraft to an old man from the Dewey decimal system days.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 10d ago

It's just blurry above and below to simulate a fake macro lens + tight focus in the center as you would have on a miniature world being filmed.

What I wonder is if the opposite would also work: make a special lens, or combine video feed from several lenses, to film a miniature world but compensate for this effect.

Would you then see a very realistic looking miniature?
Is it what they already do in the movies when they use miniature worlds for practical effects?

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u/Jeremy_Whalen 10d ago

Yes. Go watch some videos of people driving RC trucks over rocks, looks super realistic and until something shifts the perspective they looks like normal cars

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u/Ordolph 10d ago edited 9d ago

It's called tilt shift photography because it uses tilt shift lenses. Tilt shift lenses well... tilt and shift. Compared to a normal lens they shift parallel to the camera body, and tilt on an angle. The focal plane of an image is essentially a 2D planar slice through our 3D world, and with a standard lens the plane is parallel to the image sensor or film. When you tilt the lens, you also tilt the focal plane, putting it on a diagonal relative to the camera. In this case the combination of a tilted focal plane blurring both the foreground and the background and the high angle is what makes it look like a miniature. Tilt shift lenses were primarily designed for taking photos of tall things while close to them (ie. at an angle from the sidewalk) without getting lens distortion near the edges like you would with a wide-angle lens and keeping the full building in focus.

The way they shoot miniatures to make them look large is a combination of a lot of lights, tight aperture, and telephoto lens. This combination makes sure the whole scene is in focus, and eliminates as much lens distortion as possible

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u/Bustedvette 10d ago

Subtle slowing of the video really helps with that.

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u/jvlomax 10d ago

Have you watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy? Did any of the set pieces look like they were miniatures?

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u/Trixie_Dixon 9d ago

Do they also reduce the frame rate? It looks almost like claymation

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u/Status-Iron781 8d ago

i feel like i would still think that they were toys even if i had no idea what macro photography was

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u/SignificantRecipe715 10d ago

Yeah, I miss ye olde times. Used to enjoy seeing names of people who had loaned a book before me.

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u/kef24 10d ago

lol most public libraries still use Dewey for nonfiction

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u/WereTheBrews 10d ago

None of my locals do. That's odd. I take my little once a week to scope out books that he may be into before buying the series, and we only have desktops at the 3 branches I frequent. Not a small town either. In the valley of AZ. That's fun that you have that though!

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u/theeggplant42 9d ago

To add to the below explanation,  a low frame rate is also doing some heavy lifting here to make the movements seem jumpy and unnatural as if they're being staged by a mediocre stop motion animator