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by Keith Loutit

3 years ago

Hi, I will continue to post here, but my new work has a home at keithloutit.com with updates at:

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Music: "Mi Plato de Barro" by Chicha Libre - Barbes Records.

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Hosam
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Byron Valencia
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Daniel Zhang
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Justin C. Polk
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Joey Carr 3 years ago

It's so funny that model makers spend all that effort on making models look real, then CGI replaces them and all-of-a-sudden it's cool to make reality look like a model :)

Very cool. Must have taken FOREVER to render all that lens blur!
gonzalo chong 3 years ago

I think the images are actually taken from real world with only a tilt-shift lens and a 35mm adapter. There´s no CGI in this clip. (sorry for my crapy english!::)
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

joey. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Keith
ArtG3 3 years ago

Keith - What type of camera was used on these shots? It looks remarkable!
Timelapser 3 years ago

I like it :) too
AdamPellinDeeve 3 years ago

These are so much fun to watch!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Adam.
Andrea Allen 3 years ago

It's so hard for me to not think it's miniatures. I'm really liking these!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Andrea. I'm glad you liked it!
Chrizzle 3 years ago

Wow, haha. I love it.
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Cloverfield Monster.
Phil Hoyt 3 years ago

this really different i liked it.
Frederic Vercammen 3 years ago

I love our Micro Machine life ;-)
Great Stuff
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

me too frederic! thanks for the comment.
Speldosa 3 years ago

Great!
Alice Bevan–McGregor 3 years ago

D'y'know, I think I'd be able to reproduce this using a D90 and a Lensbaby, or even my D200 intervalometer and Lensbaby. :/ Looks wickedly awesome, though! I love tilt-shift miniatures!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Alice - Be sure to post if you do.
Richard Huntington 3 years ago

Wow, cool! I like it!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Richard :)
Retner 3 years ago

awesome!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Retner!
Filter Five Productions 3 years ago

I have seen this type of effect before and I love it! Is this done with only a tilt-shift lens and a 35mm adapter? What lens and what video camera did you use, it looks fantastic!
Wynner3 3 years ago

That was so cool, nice blur effect.
Asiertxu 3 years ago

I like it alot!
It reminded me of a maquette, I guess what made me feel that feeling, is the fact that is quite blurred at both background and foreground, very like when you use a macro lensess on a camera to shoot small things like an Antz...:D...

VERY INTERESTING Keith!!

Thanks for share!!

Asier.
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Asier.
cesar 3 years ago

i was confused for a couple of secs... haha
really enjoyed.

really nice effect and the point of view is helping aswell
Afonso Santos 3 years ago

The wash down from the propellers is so real !
Hak en Haai 3 years ago

sigh backwards...
Brett Moulton 3 years ago

off the chain!!!!.......LOVE IT!!!!
NeverOffside 3 years ago

That was FANTASTIC! :) How many people have thought this is a model?
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi Rob,
Hopefully a lot! :)
ZUPPORT 3 years ago

how u create this look ?
WOW!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi Zupport - its a combination of selective focus, light direction and speed of playback. Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Paul Tarlevs 3 years ago

Are these toys or the real thing? What camera did you use?
rob.meredith 3 years ago

That really is quite amazing
Cavvie Bartjanello 3 years ago

like it? LOVE IT! :)
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Rob, Paul, Cavvie - Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Miro Kantarsky 3 years ago

Excellent idea and execution.
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Miro!
Annie 3 years ago

WOW!
I've never seen Circular Quay Quit like that before!!!!
Love it :)))))
Tsayonara Yifu 3 years ago

I feel like an idiot asking this, but, you took photos of real boats and made them look like miniatures, right?
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

that's right tsayonara.
bombproof 3 years ago

wow!

is that tilt shift lense you were using?

cool cool cool!
Katie Kroeper 3 years ago

how on earth did you do this? it's awesome!
Marley 3 years ago

I'm from Sydney and that was just Fantastic work, how much would all the models cost you ?????
Sansom Media 3 years ago

what the!... i'm laughing, confused and elated. this has earned like of the week! likeoftheweek.blogspot.com/
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

thanks Todd!
Rich Danby 3 years ago

Fantastic. I'm hoping to get a TS lens soon and one of the reasons was to do some timelapses. Nice to see someone has beaten me to it and produced something that looks great.
Dan Huston 3 years ago

Like it??

LOVE it!!

I want to play with the toys! HA!
Erik Hölperl 3 years ago

Its so unbelivable to watch
first seconds you think, "ahhh nice rendering" until you recognize its real. After you got it you cant stop laughing how cute this hole little big world looks. love the speedboats speeding through the screen. <3
Sean 3 years ago

Wonderful! If I hadn't actually been to Sydney, I would question if it was a model or the real thing. Fantastic work!
Matthew Carrozo 3 years ago

brilliant!

kudos to the tilt shift master!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Matthew!
Adam Gerritsma 3 years ago

I grinned through the whole clip =) The music really adds to it.
Trev 3 years ago

Thats really great!
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Trev.
tj hanton 3 years ago

This is amazing ... looks like stop-motion photography. Excellent work!
Clintus McGintus 3 years ago

Another great one. Amazing lens work.
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Thanks Clintus!, TJ
mothnode 3 years ago

Amazing. At first I really thought that these are toys and I was wondering "how the hell did you make the waves look so realistic?". Haha. Really great piece!
Rabenvogel 3 years ago

That is exactly what i was thinking ;)
jesús olmo 3 years ago

brilliant
Jake Read 3 years ago

tilt shift photography / videography is always so cool.

this one is definitely some of the best i've seen
Rodolfo Castrezana / OMEdICast 3 years ago

Fucking great!

I'd put the embed video on my blog.
Pascal 3 years ago

Man!!! this is amazing! I love the music you chose!
Sebastianchp 3 years ago

Muy muy bueno!
Marko 3 years ago

this is great! love it! u have a lot of patience and will to make something like this :D
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi Marko. Yes this takes some time to pull together and its great to see people enjoying them. Thanks, Keith.
paco 3 years ago

This is totally amazing.
Nick Douglas 3 years ago

Fantastic stuff, of course, and I hope to see more. Where do you shoot these from to get such high angles? Are you on nearby buildings zooming in?
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi Nick,

Sydney has a great landscape for this kind of photography. Plenty of hills and clifflines surrounding beautiful harbors. Cheers, Keith.
RNG35 3 years ago

Which adapter are you using?
mbgriffi 3 years ago

Very nice! Tilt shift heaven. Did you shoot in timelapse or in realtime and then timelapsify it? Additionally what do you use to edit with?
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi mbgriffi - Yes timelapse and archive high quality stills. I edit using FC Pro, Color and occasionally motion. Thanks for asking. Keith.
Shelley Noble 3 years ago

HOW!!? A tilt shift attached to video camera? who what where which?! Aaaah.
Chris Smith 3 years ago

This is delightful. Thanks for taking my mind off of everything that isn't these days. I want a bathtub like that.
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Chris - That's a great compliment thanks.
Dan Patmore 3 years ago

Wow, thanks for your work on this Sydney series. My home town and makes me smile to see it in this wonderfully playful toytown style.
Adam Reid 3 years ago

hey man love this series of sydney stuff
LEE 3 years ago

very fun! very interesting..

This is amazing movie...

What type of camera taken movie?
David Gidali 3 years ago

Are you sure no post DOF on those shots? I could swear the blur is based on 2D screen space and not real world distance from camera.
(Looking at those high poles "loosing focus" as they enter the blurred area in the background).
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi David, Lenses only. I have converted MF lenses to tilt & mounted them on a DSLR. The reason the poles are also out of focus is that the plane of focus created by the tilt shift lens has been flattened to cut through the scene. At closer subject distances you could control this better.
David Gidali 3 years ago

I see, thanks for the info. It sure looks awesome - I could definitely find use to it in some of my future film projects :)
FS Dreamscapes 3 years ago

It reminds me of Thomas the Tank Engine for some reason, great filmography!!!
Danielle Dawn 3 years ago

one of the most interesting little vids ive seen in the longest time. i love it. you have an amazing eye :]
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

thanks danielle!
Ioannis "Yanni" Batsios 3 years ago

Wow, these are great. I need to get a lensbabie.
Aimee Giese 3 years ago

These are all fabulous!
Joel 3 years ago

Wow, I just love these videos!
josecrem 3 years ago

Great shots. Congratulations for your imagination.
Charlie Ellis 3 years ago

brilliantly creative!
Chris 3 years ago

Very, very clever, and beautiful.

I am interested in the psychology. As far as I can see, there's no real reason for me to "feel" as if these are miniatures (they are not of course), but I do. Strongly.

Is this simply because previous conditioning has lead me to associate a very short depth of field and no water or wind movement with models? Or is it something else?
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hi Chris - Yes that a big part of it. I go into a bit of detail in this interview:

submarinechannel.com/articles/item/188

Cheers,

Keith.
Olivier Balaguer 3 years ago

I've become an instant fan! Love your work. I'd love to see panning action.
Dave T 3 years ago

Hiya,
I rocked up and introduced myself to you on Sat when you were down at Tamerama beach.

This vid is my current fav but really looking forward to checking out what you do with the Sculpture walk.

Have a good one and wear lots of sun screen :-)

DAve
Keith Loutit 3 years ago

Hey Dave... yeah its plenty hot out today. - Good to meet you on the track. Keith.
Rose McAleese 3 years ago

i think is beyond its time, well done.

as a young film maker i look up to your vision.

:)
Ian Savage 3 years ago

C------RAZY!

love it!
James M. 3 years ago

nothing short of brilliant.
I hope to see more! :]
Matt Watson 3 years ago

Very nice stuff Keith. I first came across this technique in Wholphin #4 with a film called site specific_Las Vegas 05 by Olivo Barbieri. Worth checking out.

blog.spout.com/2007/10/30/olivo-barbieris-site-specific/

Great Work...keep it coming!