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Post by RylstonLight » Wed Feb 26, 2014 10:28 pm

We often wax lyrical over model photographs that are taken in such away that they look just like the real thing.

But how about examples of the opposite: reality that somehow looks like a model?

This is a 1:1 scale garden arch in Bressingham Gardens; but doesn't just look like a very good garden line with the rails just out of sight?



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Post by Peter Butler » Wed Feb 26, 2014 11:04 pm

The gardens are beautiful but the steam museum is just amazing!
Well worth a visit.

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Post by laalratty » Thu Feb 27, 2014 8:27 pm

I saw this effect on a group on Facebook, the actual photo was of the engine shed at the Threlkeld Quarry Railway, but it looked like a model. Can't explain it personally, photography can both an art and a science, and extremely complex.
"What the hell is that?"
"It's a model icebreaker sir."
"It's a bit big isn't it?"
"It's a full scale model sir....."

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Post by Dr. Bond of the DVLR » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:04 pm

I believe it is called tilt shift photography, I've got no idea how it is done
A good one of the swanage railway:
https://secure.flickr.com/photos/jontlaw/3563017394/
or one of the snowdon mountain railway looking as if you could just pick it up!
http://www.joehribar.com/wordpress/file ... iftex1.jpg
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Post by kandnwlr » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:21 am

Blimey. Tilt shift. Who´d have guessed. Wonder if it´s easier than trying to get a model look like the real thing .... ;)

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Post by jay1976 » Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:53 pm

I did a few like that on cars but after doing it a few times its pretty easy effect to do and a few dslr cameras have a setting that will do this for you..
I used to live near bressingham many years ago(A village called hinderclay which is a few miles from there) A big reason for me getting into narrow gauge railway was the nursery line and the garden line they have in place of the princess line..

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