Critical Mass Ride Budapest

By on June 28, 2012 in cycling, video

City Of Joy from daniel fiantok on Vimeo.

This is a fascinating video because:

  • It’s great to see so many people on bicycles
  • Why does this look like some kind of toy model, with little lego figures cycling around?

A note on critical mass bike rides

Critical mass bike rides seem a thing of the past. Though this seems quite a well-behaved critical mass bike ride, stopping at traffic lights e.t.c. (Critical mass bike rides)

 


2 Responses to Critical Mass Ride Budapest

  1. Tim June 28, 2012 at 8:57 pm #

    My understanding is that there are various ways to achieve the effect which doesn’t so much alter the perspective as artificially blur the foreground and background, giving the impression of a very shallow depth of field, as you would get with a close-up of miniatures.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature_faking

    At its most basic you just blur the top and bottom of the photo/video, but even that can be surprisingly effective depending on the scene.

    (apologies for pedantry :) I’m sure Alex is aware of this, but I wanted to provide more detail for anyone interested).

    Nice video btw.

    It would be nice if critical mass was so popular here!

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  2. Alex June 28, 2012 at 2:52 pm #

    The lego toys effect is a tilt/shift lens that alters perspective – very fashionable at the mo.

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