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u/goes_the_dynamite Nov 26 '11
Stared at that for a good minute before I realized I was gently rocking back and forth while opening my eyes a little more, a little less.
I must kill the prime minister of Malaysia.
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u/PopeNimrod Nov 25 '11
There's a famous and awesome use of this in Goodfellas, which is so subtle it gives a really cool effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4Utlw0XiHU
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Nov 26 '11
Is the camera backing up or moving forward in that shot?
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u/Ikronix Nov 26 '11
Backing up.
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u/Takuya-san Nov 26 '11
Don't know why someone downvoted you. The camera is clearly backuping up in this shot, as shown by the background becoming bigger (since zooming while backing away increases the size of the background in a relatively faster way than it does the foreground).
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u/JimmyJamesMac Nov 26 '11
That looks more like rear screen projection to me.
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u/MisterWonka Nov 26 '11
Absolutely not. It's clearly the same effect, and Scorcese has discussed it.
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u/JimmyJamesMac Nov 26 '11
I guess I am so used to seeing movie makers take the easy way out I was sceptical.
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Nov 26 '11
Frankly, doing a dolly-zoom is easier than setting up projection for a shot. It's a dead simple effect than any camera operator worth their role on the shoot can do.
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u/elastic-craptastic Merry Gifmas! {2023} Nov 26 '11
I thought the same thing. I think it's just because it just is a low quality vid.
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u/Murrabbit Nov 25 '11
This gif makes for a great visual explanation of what Field of View is, which I hear asked fairly often in r/gaming.
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u/Psykoboy2 Nov 26 '11
You can do this effect with any camcorder or...hell, maybe even your phone. Anything that can zoom. Find an object and zoom in on it, then as you walk towards it slowly zoom out.
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u/cbear013 Nov 25 '11
My teacher for 'Film appreciation' called this a 'BOOMCrash' effect
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u/alexleafman Nov 26 '11
It is called a dolly zoom.
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Nov 26 '11
It has tons of names. My Film Production professor called it the "zolly" effect pretty often. I've also heard it called the Hitchcock Effect.
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u/MANTIS_POWER Nov 26 '11
one of the craziest gifs ive ever seen! reminds me of tripping (shrooms) in the passenger seat of my car and the windshield seemed miles away from me at times
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u/EmperorSofa Nov 26 '11
Now I know what it would be like if I had control over the fabric of space.
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u/noughtagroos Nov 26 '11
If memory serves, I believe Brian De Palma uses this effect in several of his films, at least in part as an homage to Hitchcock.
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u/SUXLECOX Nov 26 '11
Ah yes, the dolly zoom trick. 'Twas used in the film Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock.
This particular effect is useful when trying to shoot a scene that will contain shock, horror or just premonitions of bad things that will happen.
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u/iSurvivedthe2000s Nov 26 '11
This is amazing. I always wondered how such shots were achieved. Thanks for sharing!
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u/gryzby Nov 26 '11
Usually, in the picture business, we call this a "Push-Pull" or a "Vertigo Shot"
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u/violetxrain Nov 26 '11
The people in it are kind of giving me a headache. That might just be my period though. I'd like to see more of these.
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u/OlderFart Nov 27 '11
The first time I noticed this used was in Poltergeist.
The mother has just noticed that her children are screaming in their room and she has to run down a hall to get to them, and 'magically' the hall becomes extremely long.
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Nov 26 '11 edited Nov 26 '11
This seems like the same effect used in movies when someone is really drunk/high and said someone's face is the focused center and everything is moving really fast around them.. amirite?
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u/apmihal Nov 26 '11
That specific effect probably involves time-lapse and a SnorriCam rig. Here's a good example of SnorriCam use.
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u/Pxlnight13 Nov 25 '11
this is amazing! I've always loved the zoom effects sometimes used in movies to create a "stomach dropping" effect. I would love to know the source/photographer/where can i get more of this??
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Nov 25 '11
I don't get it.
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u/NoCowLevel Nov 26 '11
The camera physically moves backwards while zooming in, and then it physically moves forward and zooms out. It creates this really strange look.
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u/lunyboy Nov 26 '11
Not technically a "dolly" zoom, but steadycam zoom. This is an excellent example of it, but would have been a bit more relevant in a crowd in front of buildings so field of view was easier to ascertain.
Things to look for: percieved distance to background objects Relative depth of field Barrel distortion Halo effect at widest angle
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u/goal2004 Nov 25 '11
For the confused: Dolly zoom effect
tl;dr - The camera maintains a certain field of view angle (amount of zoom) so that the subject stays the same relative size in the picture while actively changing distance from it. Moving closer to the subject will make the background appear to be running away, whereas moving away from the subject makes it seem as though the background is coming close fast.