check out my "coaster models"!

[ncf]

Goliath @ SFMM

Balder @ Liseberg

Xcelerator @ Knott's Berry Farm

 

These photo might look just like models, but they are actually real photos! You just blur the top and the bottom of any photo, and it will jook just like a model :shock:

[Token Yankee Guy]

Wow, you fooled me. The Balder picture makes it look like it's actually a model.

[DenDen]

the only one that fooled me was Balder, (and it really did!) the other 2 aren't as good. That's what gave it away.

[crispy]

 

haha funny

 

Balder REALLy looks like a model

[Nrthwnd]

Very good. Had me fooled. Things to do with your photos, huh? Could be interesting to see how other real coaster pix look, being altered that way, huh?

[DragonKhan]

If you want to do an even better job, try to get rid of details.

Also, get rid of the background and try to place the "model" on a tabletop in your room or something.

You could also perfect your blurring, since it should be blurry at distant objects that are out of focus. They are at the top of the picture pretty often, but not always...

[J man]

The Xcelerator supports look like cardboard tubes. You had me fooled.

[coasterguy618]

You totally fooled me! Balder looks so fake!

[rollermonkey]

Balder's obviously the best of the three; the car on the freeway looks like a plastic car from an old train set.

 

Goliath's one fault is the rail of Colossus in the foreground. If it were a model, you'd only need to move the camera up an inch or less (depending on the scale) to get a more convincing shot.

 

Xcelerator's clue is the focus gradient is too drastic. The cardboard tube effect is awesome, but my eyes were grabbed first by the way the blur just stops as your eye travels down the top hat.

 

Very impressive, nonetheless. How did you come across the idea?

 

Chris B

[jarmor]

Oh yeah ...so you wanna fool us w/ your "models" well I gotta model for ya **unzips pants** its called the "tower of terror!"

8)

[ncf]

Very impressive, nonetheless. How did you come across the idea?

 

Chris B

 

I saw it in an art gallery

[benzo41190]

Well Excelerator looks real because of its angle. Balder looks like a real model because of its angle, it isnt so detailed. Goliath looks like a mix between a real photo and No Limits. Nice job though, try to use photos that are zoomed out, like Balder.

[zburns999]

Hey, you should've taken my advice and not use the Xcelerator one ncf Oh well, I still think that they are awesome.

[Imhotep]

...The cardboard tube effect is awesome...

 

Actually, thats no effect. the supports are really like that... which in turn adds to the belief it could be a model. Its crazy how easily our brains can be decieved.

 

I did think the pic of Balder was really a model.. But what I was really thinking when I saw that pic was "Nice MaxAir model!!"

[smallish]

Haha fooled me!

 

I did some stuff in photoshop to make it look more like a model. What do you think?

[SFMM rocks my socks]

Balder fooled me big time but the others didnt.

[CoasterEricHP]

Thats really cool! It's a good effect. I think if you took out some of the flat rides and added trees over them or something it'd be more believeable. I stared at Goliath for a little in utter amazement.. then I noticed that it had that railing in the front.

 

Eric