Model World by Olivo Barbieri
July 01, 2006 by Vurdlak
Just look at the pictures below. Now admit, what was the first thing that came to your mind? I believe that the answer was something like "no way these images are for real, they must be some sort of scaled models". I'm sorry to inform you that you were wrong. Actualy it's the other way arround. It's hard to convince people that Olivo Barbieri’s aerial photographs are for real. They look uncannily like hyperdetailed models, with absent imperfections of reality. Streets are strangely clean, trees look plastic, and odd distortions of scale create the opposite effect of what we expect from aerial photography: a complete overview, like military surveillance.
Olivio began the "Site Specific project" in Rome, before moving on to Amman, Jordan; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and Shanghai, China. He achieves the distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens; a method that allows to choose what he really liked in focus.
Olivio began the "Site Specific project" in Rome, before moving on to Amman, Jordan; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; and Shanghai, China. He achieves the distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens; a method that allows to choose what he really liked in focus.
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Few months ago I've seen photos taken like these in a magazine. They were taken by Miklos Gaal. I found some of them on the web. I think you might like them too.
here they are:
http://taik.homeip.net/artists/popups/portfolio.lasso?ID=K00006
These photos look like models to me mainly because of the depth-of-field effect. When taking closeups of models, small objects, etc. depth-of field-is often compromised. When taking pictures from great distances depth-of-field is not usually an issue. Because we are used to seeing closeups that often have areas that are out of focus—and panoramas that are usually entirely in focus—these images contradict our experience and our brains try to make sense of the paradox.
I have a happy mai-mai.
norway
cool...!
These are really great, they're images you can study for hours and every time you look at it you will discover something new! That's what a good picture (or painting) is all about, for me at least... Ps: Are they for sale?
I like my dad's socks...they smell like sheep..:)
WoW
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amaizing;p
I built a model country before which actually had tiny buildings, pylons, electric power lines, motorways, houses, trees, cars, people, etc. I made a li'l volcano and waited a minuite.... and.... BAM! Every bodies' tiny vauxhalls were completely melted! If you don't belive me, I'll try and take a picture and send it to show you the piles of melted plastic and metal!
This is amazing...I live in Vegas so its great to see!
IT IS REAL ?
This is so plastic U liar!!!!!!!!!!!
YES! SANTA MONICA AND DISNEY HALL.
Rock on Los Angeles. :-D
Is that guy related to the musician?
nice
I made some of these myself.
Not near as good as this guy though.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/justin_elbert/sets/72157594314827587/
wow those are good the 5th one is of the seattle E.M.P. for those people that didnt know that ok well thats all bye
The photos are blurry.
The effect can be reproduced in Photoshop using a Quick Mask and Gaussian Blur.
Example
Where was that first photo taken? At first glance I thought it was the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Where's the sixth one supposed to be in the world?
After I read the paragrph, I see that some of them are real, but I still have a hard time beliveing that others are.
this is done extremely poorly i do not believe they're models at all i cant believe the awful editing on this im extremely disappointed