The Diorama Thread

[Kuma5]

Great to hear
If she wants fancy photos from her local area, just let me know.
Do you know which side of Kagoshima?
Satsuma or Õsumi?

Any of that region are great to see so I'm pleased to see what you have. The family is located in the Kokubushikine, Kirishima side a few steps from the bay. I enjoyed shooting from the Shiroyama Hotel when coming into the city.

How was the earthquake for your area? Family there was evacuated from their homes and were allowed to come back in today.

 

[Skygod44]

Any of that region are great to see so I'm pleased to see what you have. The family is located in the Kokubushikine, Kirishima side a few steps from the bay. I enjoyed shooting from the Shiroyama Hotel when coming into the city.

How was the earthquake for your area? Family there was evacuated from their homes and were allowed to come back in today.

I was in Kokubu 国分市広瀬町 when I first moved to Japan. Not far from 敷根 at all before the mass conglomeration of villages-into-cities started.
Loved the area, but Kagoshima City had more opportunities for me, long-term.

And it's so cool hearing someone in FoP talk about Shiroyama Hotel
We had our wedding reception there

But regarding the earthquake. No effect here at all, thankfully.
The news was full of it, of course.
But despite the sad losses, we're all so relieved that the tsunami didn't hit like the one in 2011.

Cheers for now, and of course, most of my photos are from the Kagoshima area

Say a 宜しくお願いします to your wife

 

[Kuma5]

This was fun! I'm not usually a high vantage level shooter so finding one to play with was challenging. This is from a park in Kirishima during the cherry blossom season with the 5D-C.
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[Skygod44]

This was fun! I'm not usually a high vantage level shooter so finding one to play with was challenging. This is from a park in Kirishima during the cherry blossom season with the 5D-C.
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[Kuma5]

IDK how to fix that post, no edit icon available
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[Skygod44]

IDK how to fix that post, no edit icon available
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Looks like Shiroyama Park, overlooking Kyocera to me, but those roller-slides are everywhere.

 

[Mark Vuleta]

I've got one from a long time ago. This is with a TS24 & my old 30D

 

[Mark Vuleta]

This was the silly stuff that was going on...

 

[Mark Vuleta]

Mostly by this guy... taking chimping to great heights....

 

[Skygod44]

This was the silly stuff that was going on...

I jump off mountains under one of my paragliders...
...but these guys are crazy (imho )

 

[Skygod44]

I've a shot today, using in-camera diorama software of the same temple that's earlier in the thread.
That one was made using the GIMP editor.
Which looks more like a model?

 

[Kuma5]

The ones dated 5 and 6'th look good. The train on Dec 6'th #20 the DOF suits that one really well to my perceptions. I find that one pleasing in that diorama sense. Your GIMP edit would be my pick between the temples.

 

[Skygod44]

The ones dated 5 and 6'th look good. The train on Dec 6'th #20 the DOF suits that one really well to my perceptions. I find that one pleasing in that diorama sense. Your GIMP edit would be my pick between the temples.

I think also, the GIMP edit was more tightly framed.
That works better:- this shot above, includes too many "models"

 

[Skygod44]

Not a diorama shot, but I thought I'd go to the temple in the previous diorama image, just to show you it, close up

 

[PinholeR5]

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.

Another approach is to use a tilt-shift adapter. For example, here is an image captured on the R5 using the Fotodiox TLT ROKR EF to RF Tilt / Shift Adapter and a Laowa Zero-D 12mm f/2.8 EF mount lens. This was at f/2.8.

 

[Cap'n Fishy]

TS 45...

 

[Skygod44]

TS 45...

That's a n good one, Colin.
Though to get the "look", I've found that less cars is better.

Recently, I've taken a few shots for the thread, but when I look properly my thought is, "A model-maker wouldn't do this..."
And shot gets the delete treatment.

It's another aspect I've found interesting, since restarting stills photography

 

[Skygod44]

Definitely not a model...
...and not somewhere I'd like to be.

 

[Skygod44]

Who put all those toy buses there?

 

[Skygod44]

Toy ship?


Hmm....
Water is very tricky to get the right look for a diorama shot.