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February 08, 2010

Awesome Picture Slideshow
— Ace

Some of these have such perfect backgrounds I suspect p-shopping, but in some shots he reveals that how he did it -- basically just a table with the model cars on the model street in foreground, with the real background in background, making it look like real cars before a real background.

Some really cool photography here.

Is it all real single-shot in-camera trickery, or is he faking it with p-shopping or something like that?

Thanks to EdwardR.

Posted by: Ace at 08:51 AM | Comments (54)
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1 i figure like this, see: we each chip in, say, 10 bucks, buys ourselves an island and from there we don robes and spread out to airports where we spread the word for nominal donations. there's big bucks in cults. and we'll all get great tans.

Posted by: gomm at February 08, 2010 08:55 AM (Ibk1S)

2 The night shots have a Dark City vibe.

Posted by: toby928 at February 08, 2010 08:55 AM (PD1tk)

3 When you say "all models" here at AoS, I usually picture something else. What a tease.

Posted by: Waterhouse at February 08, 2010 08:56 AM (ySQoK)

4 Really, what models? It's just a bunch of cars and buildings.

Posted by: Rocks at February 08, 2010 08:57 AM (Q1lie)

5 Man, not the models I was looking for ...

Posted by: Sam at February 08, 2010 08:57 AM (Cxsey)

6 Them's the real thing, models. Just a macro lens with real life backgrounds (trees, etc.) Someone has a lot of time on their hands. Funemployment! Not enough tits, though.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 08, 2010 09:01 AM (AZGON)

7 Even if p-shopped, that was pretty impressive. It it weren't for the crisp perfection of everything in each scene you could easily assume many of them were real.

Posted by: Reactionary at February 08, 2010 09:01 AM (xUM1Q)

8
Wow, that is incredible. For the first few pictures, I actually did not realize that the building in the background were not real. I thought it was some optical illusion trick with little toy cars and real buildings. This guy must have spent a lot of time doing this.

Posted by: dan-O at February 08, 2010 09:01 AM (+9Rf8)

9 The word "models" should not be used unless specifically specified that they are NOT HOT WOMEN.

Flagrant false advertisement.

Posted by: Houdini's Cadaver at February 08, 2010 09:03 AM (nz654)

10 the giveaway for me was the "grass" in front of some of the houses, very model railroady but this guy is awesome!

Posted by: Assman at February 08, 2010 09:04 AM (HfA9V)

11
Cool.

Awesome is a bit strong...

unless you're ten.

Posted by: This is Kissel at February 08, 2010 09:05 AM (z37MR)

12 Pretty cool. Not like the GHEY Audi ad yesterday.

Green Police can suck the barbed cock of Satan!

Posted by: Kemp at February 08, 2010 09:05 AM (2+9Yx)

13
NOW THIS IS AWESOME!

Posted by: This is Kissel at February 08, 2010 09:06 AM (z37MR)

14 James Lileks! Call Your Office!!

.

Posted by: BumperStickerist at February 08, 2010 09:07 AM (ruzrP)

15 Neat pictures. The fact that NONE of them contain hot women is a complete fail though.

Posted by: Hatchet Five at February 08, 2010 09:07 AM (3EqY8)

That's an awful lot of models. That guy must be single. And Funemployed!

And BTW Ace, next time, when you say models, please specify whether they're animal, vegetable, or mineral. Or cheerleaders.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 08, 2010 09:07 AM (i3AsK)

17 "models" indeed. This post wrote a check the content could not cash.

Posted by: lorien1973 at February 08, 2010 09:07 AM (IhQuA)

It would be nice to actually have those cars and not the models.

Reminds me of when I was a kid.

Posted by: Vic at February 08, 2010 09:08 AM (QrA9E)

19 12 Pretty cool. Not like the GHEY Audi ad yesterday.

I thought it was pretty funny jab at the econutts. If you hit the link on Drudge and read the comments it provides an abundance of comedy.

Posted by: Houdini's Cadaver at February 08, 2010 09:08 AM (nz654)

20 Neat. Let's talk about politics some more.

Posted by: CozMark at February 08, 2010 09:09 AM (HK4Kc)

21 James Lileks! Call Your Office!! I think I spotted him in the model diner.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 08, 2010 09:09 AM (AZGON)

22 i figure like this, see: we each chip in, say, 10 bucks, buys ourselves an island and from there we don robes and spread out to airports where we spread the word for nominal donations. there's big bucks in cults. and we'll all get great tans.

I always wanted to start the Cult of the Electric Light Bulb where our chant is ohm.

Posted by: alexthechick at February 08, 2010 09:09 AM (8WZWv)

23 That was like being offered some pussy and ending up adopting a cat.

Posted by: runninrebel at February 08, 2010 09:09 AM (i3PJU)

24 Heh, if Tiger Woods had only invested in these types of models...

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at February 08, 2010 09:10 AM (i3AsK)

25
Anyone in the market for a nice jooish guy?

Ladies, feast your peepers on THIS...

Posted by: This is Kissel at February 08, 2010 09:11 AM (z37MR)

Oh. Model cars. Never mind.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2010 09:13 AM (2qU2d)

27 i love this kind of intense work. everything is perfect. the rain and snow scenes are brilliant. i love these photos. and these antique cars are works of art in their own right. yuck cars toady are so ugly and they all look the same.

Posted by: nyc redneck at February 08, 2010 09:13 AM (EtrGh)

28 toady, LOL

Posted by: nyc redneck at February 08, 2010 09:15 AM (EtrGh)

29 Even if p-shopped, that was pretty impressive. It it weren't for the crisp perfection of everything in each scene you could easily assume many of them were real.

Posted by: Reactionary at February 08, 2010 01:01 PM (xUM1Q)

I was thinking, " everything looks too clean" when I suddenly realized what Ace meant by the word models.

Posted by: Bill R. at February 08, 2010 09:15 AM (EhlQq)

30 #19

I don't think it was meant as comedy. I read that guys blog, and he's a piece of shit with his tea-bagging references. Obviously, he's trying to make light of something, 90% of his friends think should be happening. Audi is German, this shit is already happening in Europe. Remember the story about the shop owner in England arrested because he didn't put anything in his recycle bin? Turns out he had no recyclables, since he reused all his shit, BUT he still got a ticket and had to go to court.

NC has outlawed throwing away plastic bottles! You can not throw them away, they HAVE to be recycled. Next, the garbage man will be calling the cops because I have a hundred empty plastic bottles of Valu rite in the trash can.

Posted by: Kemp at February 08, 2010 09:17 AM (2+9Yx)

31 12 Pretty cool. Not like the GHEY Audi ad yesterday.
Green Police can suck the barbed cock of Satan!
Posted by: Kemp at February 08, 2010 01:05 PM (2+9Yx)

That ad was just a takeoff done on another skit:

http://tinyurl.com/6enpk5

The "Green Team" with Will Ferrell, John C Reilly, and some other dude. And I tend to agree with you that I didn't find it that funny. It might be a bit funnier if it weren't so close to being true.

Posted by: dan-O at February 08, 2010 09:18 AM (+9Rf8)

The thing that really gives it away is the cars are too clean and therre isn't enough trash in the streets.

Real America has trashy streets.

Posted by: Vic at February 08, 2010 09:19 AM (QrA9E)

33 25
Anyone in the market for a nice jooish guy?

Ladies, feast your peepers on THIS...

Is this post Ghey shit day at Ace's?

I am not saying those joosh are ghey, but they look like they might hold one in their mouth till it got soft.

Posted by: Kemp at February 08, 2010 09:20 AM (2+9Yx)

34 Perhaps the model builder could have used these.

The same company used to manufacture a set of nude artist models and a painter, seated at an easel. I'm not kidding.

Model railroaders are perverts. NTTIAWWT.

Posted by: George Orwell at February 08, 2010 09:21 AM (AZGON)

35 13
NOW THIS IS AWESOME!
Posted by: This is Kissel

That was indeed worthy of a link!

Posted by: George Orwell at February 08, 2010 09:22 AM (AZGON)

36 Those really are amazing.

Posted by: Dan at February 08, 2010 09:22 AM (KZraB)

37 #31

My post at #33 goes for your video too. GHEY!

Posted by: Kemp at February 08, 2010 09:24 AM (2+9Yx)

38 Real America in the 50's wasn't trashy.. or, at least in my memory it wasn't!

But since I grew up on the south side of Chicago, I know it musta been really trashy. Memory filters that out somehow, I think.

Cool cars! and great staging.

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at February 08, 2010 09:24 AM (f9c2L)

39
Those really are amazing.

^
that's something you usually hear about a pair of boobs

Posted by: This is Kissel at February 08, 2010 09:24 AM (z37MR)

I see your models, and raise you an invisible man. (The last one is excellent.) Hat tip linkiest--formerly Conservative Grapevine.

Posted by: andycanuck at February 08, 2010 09:25 AM (2qU2d)

That was neat. He shouldn't have revealed the secret. Better to have let people wonder.

He could do some really great monster cat shots.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 08, 2010 09:26 AM (4skSX)

42 BTW, some of the pictures appear tweaked. "Appear" being the operative word.

Posted by: rdbrewer at February 08, 2010 09:27 AM (4skSX)

43 @40
It's astonishing, what funemployment can accomplish! We are the ones we have been painting for!

Posted by: George Orwell at February 08, 2010 09:35 AM (AZGON)

44 I loved the pics. And now I really want a big Buick w/ Delta Fins.

Posted by: di butler, qualified for Aussie porn at February 08, 2010 09:44 AM (S3xX1)

45 I love the Furies and the Impalas too.

Posted by: DrSteve at February 08, 2010 09:57 AM (Yv5Ti)

46 Looks like excellent in camera work. People have only been working on this for like 120 years, it shouldn't be surprising that it's that good.

Posted by: Ronsonic at February 08, 2010 10:16 AM (XiQgY)

47 Absolutely intriguing. Easy to identify the cars, having grown up with and around them. Not to mention that ANY one of those oldies has more honest charm than any of today's transportation modules.

I say that regretfully, having spent 40 years being the friendly person who's repaired your car RIGHT the first time. So I can claim some expertise on cars.

Posted by: irongrampa at February 08, 2010 10:17 AM (ud5dN)

48 Someone has been reading Theo Spark blog.. He had this last week. Cool cars.

Posted by: wildwood at February 08, 2010 11:22 AM (VSWPU)

49 eh, sent that to Maet days ago.

Posted by: Rewrite! at February 08, 2010 11:29 AM (d7Px0)

50 Long before the digital tweaking of photos, you could make some pretty impressive pictures combining scale models with actual people and buildings, using forced perspective and mirrors, as far back as the 1920s. Check out some of the silent movies of F.W. Murnau and Fritz Lang.

Posted by: Peter at February 08, 2010 11:32 AM (/Dz3n)

51 Forced perspective is how Peter Jackson tricked people into thinking hobbits have small cocks.

Posted by: frodo at February 08, 2010 12:06 PM (kheDT)

52 One of the slides shows him sitting at a desk in front of a diorama...looks like he's using foam panels to remove the background, which implies P-shopping.

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