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Miniature diorama

A handmade model scene with tiny props.

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Miniature diorama photograph: a tiny handmade model scene with crisp, fine detail in scale props, flocked grass, foam trees and painted surfaces. Often built inside a box, case or other container and shown on a tabletop. Warm practical lights inside the model, soft daylight around it, and shallow depth of field that makes the scale read as small.

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What is a tilt-shift miniature AI generator?

It makes scenes look like scale models: tilt-shift photos of towns and ports, dioramas on a base and model-railway layouts. You set the height of the camera, the band of focus and the colors, and the model shrinks the world. On Nano Banana 2.1 an image costs 10 credits. You can start for free.

What makes the look

Height, a focus band, color and a base

Tilt-shift fakes the shallow focus of a close-up on a small model. A diorama goes further and builds the model.

  1. Height

    The camera sits high and looks down at an angle, as from a rooftop or a hill. Straight-on views stay full size.

  2. Focus band

    A thin band of sharp focus across the middle, with strong blur above and below. The blur is what sells the scale.

  1. Color

    Bright sun and boosted saturation, so cars, boats and roofs read as painted toys.

  2. Base

    For a diorama: a wooden base or a slice of earth, cut-away walls, felt trees, static grass and figures as small dots.

Category
Photography and 3D
Best subjects
Towns, harbors, offices, rail layouts, ports
Credits
10 per image on Nano Banana 2.1
Resolution
1K, 2K or 4K
References
Up to 14 images

Your photo, in miniature

Attach a photo of yourself and ask for miniature.

A phone selfie of a grinning older man with short grey hair and a grey beard in a navy t-shirt, against a white wall
A grinning older man with grey hair and a grey beard in a navy t-shirt as a glossy hand-painted miniature figure, in a blurred model living room

How to make a miniature image

  1. Put the camera up high

    Say where the camera is: a rooftop, a hillside or a crane. Looking down at an angle is what makes a street read as a model.

  2. Ask for a thin band of focus

    Ask for sharp focus on one band across the middle and strong blur at the top and bottom. Without the blur, it stays a normal photo.

  3. Pick a photo or a diorama

    For tilt-shift, keep the place real and boost the color. For a diorama, name the base, the cut-away walls and the studio light.

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