Yea I know it's also called tilt-shifting, but that term made someone grumpy in a discussion I saw about it because it's also the term for a lens that is off the chain expensive.
I also know this has been done, but I'd never heard of it until today when a Disney nut friend told me about it.
I posted this the other day... its not a full on miniaturization effect, but since the barn kinda looked like a toy even before doing the processing, I figured may as well do it.
These are great. I ran across that website today and played around with it a bit but wanted to see if I could pull it off in photoshop just for kicks - and because I paid money for it damnit. ;-)
Apparently if you have photoshop elements 11 there is a guided tutorial in the program. I swear I just upgraded to 10 not that long ago and now there is already a new version, they're killing me with this.
Quite subtle tiltshift or whatever you want to call it in this one...
Done in GIMP using Focus Blur and masking. Focus Blur emulates camera blur better than Gaussian Blur often recommended in tutorials. I think Focus Blur is called Lens Blur in PS. In this case tiltshiftmaker.com would have screwed up the picture and blurred the windshield & roof of the car too, in other words it is not aware what parts of the picture are in the "depth range" you want to keep in focus. So some manual work is needed for best results. @aponi@kynosmom
I've never managed one, I think it's due to getting the right type of shot in the first place. Most of the shots on this thread are taken from an already fairly high view point. I shall keep on trying though.
@miley89 the one I did was from a train station overlooking the street. I walked all over uptown yesterday at lunch looking for a way to get up above the street that would provide a picture of something remotely interesting. There are some walkways between some of the buildings but then I'd have to take the picture through the glass. I think a lot of these I've seen are from balconies or buildings.
I've been wanting to try tilt/shift for a while, and this thread was my motivation. I took this image at f/8, but my intention was to only focus on the waterfall. Using tilt/shift, I was able to make the image appear as if I had shot it at f/1.8:
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Apparently if you have photoshop elements 11 there is a guided tutorial in the program. I swear I just upgraded to 10 not that long ago and now there is already a new version, they're killing me with this.
Quite subtle tiltshift or whatever you want to call it in this one...
Done in GIMP using Focus Blur and masking. Focus Blur emulates camera blur better than Gaussian Blur often recommended in tutorials. I think Focus Blur is called Lens Blur in PS. In this case tiltshiftmaker.com would have screwed up the picture and blurred the windshield & roof of the car too, in other words it is not aware what parts of the picture are in the "depth range" you want to keep in focus. So some manual work is needed for best results.
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