{"id":361,"date":"2019-06-28T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T05:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2023-12-30T23:17:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T23:17:27","slug":"and-if-it-makes-me-grow-larger-i-can-reach-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/and-if-it-makes-me-grow-larger-i-can-reach-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"And if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had always dreamed of building a miniature city of sorts. I read a book once about how to build a miniature house in a bottle. I fantasized and planned that one day I would find the perfect house to shrink down to size and keep in a bottle. I would probably stare at it all day, imagining myself shrinking like Alice after drinking from the mysterious bottle, living in that little house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day, I realized that I could do the next best thing with a tilt-shift lens. I had been playing with my Rokinon Tilt-Shift Lens for a few years now. I use it mostly to take better photos of buildings and do reflection shots from windows without seeing my reflection. I knew you could use it to take &#8220;miniature effect&#8221; photos and I wanted to figure out how and try it for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trick works best from a high place. The Space Needle had finally reopened after a major renovation although there were still some sections closed off and being worked on. I stepped out onto the glass-encased viewing platform and snapped away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0319-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0319-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0319-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0319-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>I think that&#8217;s I-5 down there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It took some trial and error before I figured out the perfect combination of narrow depth of field and tilting the lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0329-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0329-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0329-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0329-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Tiny buildings and tiny cranes!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was so much fun. I could see it was turning out well from the camera&#8217;s screen but I knew I would see it better on a bigger screen when I got home to get the images on my computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I spent a few more minutes up in the view deck then sat down at the snack bar for some lunch. It was a lovely time spent people-watching. I did one final walk and took a few more shots then headed back down to catch the monorail back to downtown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0338-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0338-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0338-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0338-1-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>Sometimes, being at the bottom gives you a new perspective on things.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also managed to catch this gem of a shot before I headed home for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0361-1-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0361-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0361-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/2019Mar15_0361-1-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><figcaption>3 icons in one shot!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This last one actually got turned into a piece of Photoshop art that now graces my office and reminds me of all the pretty places out there that I can&#8217;t wait to see, snap, and share with everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In which I climbed up a tower and looked down with a magic lens and became a giant among miniatures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,65,76],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-photography","tag-seattle","tag-tilt-shift-lens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecheshiretrail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}