August 18, 2008
Photo of the Day: August 18, 2008
What an interesting shot of a miniature model of Union Station's exterior. I mean, look at that detail on the rear of the Circulator...wait a minute. Flickr user Jet Back to the Lab just fooled us good. We've featured some tilt-shift photography before, but never a photo taken with a tilt-shift lens (in lieu of a Photoshop alteration). Jet Back borrowed such a lens for the weekend and took a set of amazing pictures around Union Station and inside Rock Creek Park which will have you asking "is that really not a model?" EXIF.
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You can even spot out an ugly bicycle on the bike rack!
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I'm in love with this picture.
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that's pretty damn cool.
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That's pretty wild. Much better than that played out lensbaby crap, 99% of which looks awful.
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Way cool!
Lemme add a tilt-shift lens to my wish-list fof Santa.
(Wait--they're HOW much??)
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i'm expecting king friday and queen sara to round the corner in the make-believe trolley any second now. very mr. rogers.
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Henrietta Pussycat's gonna kick yr lousy ass, me-meow me-meow. Don't be a good neighbor to her or I'm gonna send you a love letter. Straight from my heart, f**ker. You know what a love letter is? It's a bullet. Straight from my gun, fu**er. Once you get a love letter from me, you're fu**ed forever. Understand, F**k? Me-meow, me-meow!
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that is not real. i don't believe it.
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OK, I get that the narrow depth of field combined with looking down from above makes it look model-ish, but what the heck is it about tilt/shift that makes the stuff that is in focus look so darn plasticky and toy-like?
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(Wait--they're HOW much??)
yup, definite sticker shock there.
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Funny, this is how DC always looks to me when it's infected with Repukes...artificial people.
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"what the heck is it about tilt/shift that makes the stuff that is in focus look so darn plasticky and toy-like?"
It's just your mind playing tricks. You're used to seeing plastic and toys in this kind of setting, so now your brain assumes anything in this kind of setting must be plastic and/or toys.