Bldgblog is quickly gaining ground on Pruned as my favorite blog out there right now. The latest includes this image:
No, it's not a screenshot from Sim City; it's a low-income housing development in Mexico City. The photo was taken by a helicopter pilot whose got plenty of other wonderful (if not faux-digital) shots at his own site.
This is my second post in a week on aerial photography that looks positively unreal. Who knew it was a genre?
Well, I'm just taking a guess here, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the key feature of these photographs that gives them the 'model' look is the very narrow depth of field. Aerial photographs usually have a completely flat focus plane - i.e. apparently infinite depth of field, but by narrowing the depth of field the same focusing effects occur as when photographing small objects from close up - thus the 'model' look. I think I'm going to try to emulate this in Photoshop and see what comes up.
Posted by: steve boyer | February 03, 2006 at 05:07 PM