Video: Small streets of a big city. Miniatures by Ben Thomas
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If you climb the highest tower and look down, then everything will seem so small, as if toy … And in unusual panoramic photographs Ben Thomas big cities, with all their streets, cars and people, really seem like toys. But the photo artist did not build small, amusing cities - he just used sleight of hand, ingenuity and a special lens.
Photos in "toy style" - not a gimmick for experienced photo manipulators. Tilt-Shift effect creates an optical illusion of a miniature image, turning even the largest cities into a small toy reality. To apply this effect, you can either take very expensive and complicated camera with curved lenses, or resort to the magic wand of Photoshop. Despite the fact that the British photographer Ben Thomas, according to him, owns a "black belt in Photoshop", he still preferred the first, expensive method and camera format 45 - a hardcore amateur photographer's dream that looks something like this:
And all because I was chasing super quality. And, admittedly, not in vain: the Internet is full of photos in the Tilt-Shift style, but work Ben Thomas stand out for their perfection against the general background. Or maybe it's all about the right topic - m the scarlet streets of the big city, flooded with the rays of the sun, awaken some special nostalgic feelings.
One way or another, the images of megalopolises made by Ben Thomas impressed many people, and the artist even made a special site dedicated to these photos - https://www.cityshrinker.com/. Going there, you can see magnificent panoramic pictures of toy Paris, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur and some other megacities. Photo world of Ben Thomas is quite worthy to be included in the collection of the best works on the urban theme, opening the image of a modern city - from cut cards Karen O'Leary before night city lights Christian Stoll.
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