The Diorama Thread

[Skygod44]

I should be ashamed of myself, but it's such a cute effect.

Go on...
...knock yourselves out, and post your dioramas here, without fear of ridicule.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

A diorama? Digitally?
Seeing this it reminded me of an old thread on POTN and I looked it up. Is this what you mean, Simon?

 

[Infrared Guy]

A diorama? Digitally?

I think Lensbaby made a lens that would create that effect.

 

[Capn Jack]

I think Lensbaby made a lens that would create that effect.

I think it is called "tilt-shift"

 

[gjl711]

The optical way to create this is with a tilt shift. For those of us that can't afford a t T/S lens, there is a Photoshop technique as well. There is a third way a massively weird DIY way of unmounting the lens and hand holding it doing the tilt and shift manually. I've played with the Photoshop way and the weird DIY way, but don't have a T/S lens. It doesn't work well with landscaped I think.
f-IMG_2277-TS by photog711, on Flickr

 

[gjl711]

Of course, there is the real old school method, a real diorama.
f-IMG_2304 by photog711, on Flickr

 

[gjl711]

Or a more life size one. Does a diorama have to be small?
f-IMG_2375 by photog711, on Flickr

 

[Capn Jack]

The optical way to create this is with a tilt shift. For those of us that can't afford a t T/S lens, there is a Photoshop technique as well. There is a third way a massively weird DIY way of unmounting the lens and hand holding it doing the tilt and shift manually. I've played with the Photoshop way and the weird DIY way, but don't have a T/S lens. It doesn't work well with landscaped I think.
f-IMG_2277-TS by photog711, on Flickr

That image almost works. The effect is ruined because the tops of the trees near the bridge is out of focus, while they should be in the focal plane. I think if you could mask the trees so you could blur the mountain, it would work better. The effect using the Photoshop technique is better if one is looking down on the subject, but there are often foreground objects overlapping the subject, like a large boulder I see, which should be blurred but aren't. That's a very good effort! I agree with you that many images don't work well with the photoshop technique.

 

[Skygod44]

A diorama? Digitally?
Seeing this it reminded me of an old thread on POTN and I looked it up. Is this what you mean, Simon?

There are four methods of creating this effect, that I can recall.
One is to use a massively expensive tilt-shift.
The second is cheating with an app.
The third, is using multiple layers in editing software such as GIMP, and selectively feathering with a Guassian blur certain sections of the image.
And the other option is to attach the relatively cheap lens-baby between a lens and the camera body.

Any which way you do it, the result always makes me smile.

 

[Skygod44]

The optical way to create this is with a tilt shift. For those of us that can't afford a t T/S lens, there is a Photoshop technique as well. There is a third way a massively weird DIY way of unmounting the lens and hand holding it doing the tilt and shift manually. I've played with the Photoshop way and the weird DIY way, but don't have a T/S lens. It doesn't work well with landscaped I think.
f-IMG_2277-TS by photog711, on Flickr

Looking down is the trick.
Little or no sky really helps the effect.

 

[Skygod44]

And then I didn't include the screengrab...

Links still working:

Faking Tilt-Shift - a Tutorial for Realistic Miniaturised Photos : martybugs photography blog

Faking Tilt-Shift - a Tutorial for Realistic Miniaturised Photos : martybugs.net photography blog

martybugs.net

Gimp tutorial: https://www.bartbusschots.ie/s/2008/04/16/my-tilt-shift-instructions-for-gimp/

Apps for iPhone and iPad, search in the App Store for "Tilt Shift Camera".

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Oh dear...
Been at the Christmas drinkies already?

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Oh dear...
Been at the Christmas drinkies already?

It shows, doesn't it?!

 

[Infrared Guy]

Of course, there is the real old school method, a real diorama.
f-IMG_2304 by photog711, on Flickr

That looks like it was a lot of work.

 

[Infrared Guy]

Here is a small scene I made 5 years ago. Reliving my youth in a way. The beach is Malt O Meal. The water is Jello.

 

[Skygod44]

Another one from me.
Northern Kagoshima City - my home for the last 20 years

 

[Skygod44]

And another. This time, a Buddhist temple in the city.

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

The view from the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, taken with a borrowed TS-E45 mm...

 

[gjl711]

The view from the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh, taken with a borrowed TS-E45 mm...

Yea, you can't beat the real thing. Photoshop does OK but still pales when compared to true optics.

 

[Skygod44]

Another one.
Japanese paddy fields, with a local train trundling through.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

And another. This time, a Buddhist temple in the city.View attachment 5447

This is a really good one!