" Diorama Effect "
Today Here I present you with a brand new style of Photography called as Diorama effect or more commonly called as Miniature Photography or Miniature Faking.
As Wikipedia defines this method :-
" Miniature faking, also known as diorama effect or diorama illusion, is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is made to look like a photograph of a miniature scale model. Blurring parts of the photo simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered in close-up photography, making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is; the blurring can be done either optically when the photograph is taken, or by digital post processing. Many diorama effect photographs are taken from a high angle to simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. Tilt–shift photography is also associated with miniature faking."
I will not explain you about the theory part.
Let's see how you can create amazing photos using such a simple technique.
To create such amazing effect, we have to limit our view to some part of the photo while blurring the other part.As on large life size bodies our eyes can focus on every detail while for the small sized bodies they only focus on some particular area blurring the rest .
Taking a photo for example :-
Here it is a photo of a city including cars , buildings etc.
Using this diorama effect I can convert this original photo into something like this.
Here you can see how these buildings and the whole picture is now appearing as if it is some kind of toy set.
What I've done is , I have put two line of blurring and kept the central area clean while blur gradually increasing in strength towards the sides.
Here is another example of these:-
You can also see the color saturation is increased , doing this convinces our mind as if the picture is of a very small thing.
You can experiment with different color settings and see if you can make it more rich.
This effect is not applicable everywhere so see if this works for your project or not.
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