miniature effect pictures? How does that work?

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I love those types of picture but they also give me a bit of “uncanny valley” vibes. How do they trick the eye? How come a bus can look like a toy when it appears the scale and nothing else is altered? I understand it is something to do with tilting it and changing the saturation or something but I still don’t get it: still a mystery to me.

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The most common effect you are talking about is [tilt-shift photography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography), and it works by creating a ‘manufactured’ depth-of-field effect. It just so happens that the effect has similar blur vs sharp appearances as macro photography of miniatures, combined with a warping of ‘vanishing points’ that are normally used to help us keep comparative perspective in mind. These two things (and probably others) are big drivers of the [miniature faking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking) effect.

For further reading, that second wiki article will probably help you out.

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