miniature railway by shannejw

miniature railway

This is for the Get Pushed challenge (more here http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/20934/get-pushed-81-monday-feb-3-to-sunday-feb-9) which is from Sally Ings @salza who has asked me to:

For your challenge, how about taking a shot of something you see on a regular basis either from an unusual angle or using a camera setting you seldom (or not previously) use.

I have probably taken most things from most angles so I played around with camera settings for this one, and the miniature setting for a take on Whitechapel Station from the IDEA Store. There are some iconic City of London buildings in the background - the Gherkin and the Nat West Tower.
(I wouldn't normally do this by camera settings, but by post-processing, so hadn't used this setting beforehand.)

Thank you for looking and for your wonderful comments. You're all superstars.

Originally posted in Extras on 7 February 2014
@salza - I tried a couple of things for the challenge and quite liked this effect
February 8th, 2014  
Cool!
February 8th, 2014  
cool! :)
February 9th, 2014  
Fun shot.
February 9th, 2014  
Excellent example of tilt-shift. Well done.
February 9th, 2014  
This is so cool! Great effect and perfect choice of scene to test out this setting on the camera. It's also a setting I've not really ever played with in-camera.
February 9th, 2014  
Ye olde tilt shift done to perfection
February 9th, 2014  
@cljs @webfoot - this isn't me processing - it's an in-camera setting - personally I prefer doing them myself, but I was challenged for the Get Pushed.
February 9th, 2014  
I must learn how to do a tilt shift!
February 9th, 2014  
@altadc I learned how to tilt shift from @asrai - he has some lovely ones in his stream http://365project.org/asrai/365/2011-07-29 and http://365project.org/asrai/365/2011-08-14 where he explains how to do it. I did some in my first project on here, but there are a few attempts on my Flickr stream back at that time.
February 9th, 2014  
Sue
When I see shots like this and hear about how they were done I realize how steep my photography learning curve gets. I didn't even know there was such a setting on a camera. But creative shots like this sure make me want to learn and do more. I am very appreciative of your commentary of how/why you take the photos you do. It's very instructional.
February 9th, 2014  
So much to learn, so little time - thanks for tempting me to add another item to the long list of things I would like to master!
February 9th, 2014  
excellent :)
February 10th, 2014  
looks like a toy town!
February 10th, 2014  
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