Friday, July 31, 2009

Experimenting with Tilt Shift

So I've been experimenting with a photography technique called miniature faking. Found this great article on it the other day and thought "what the hey, lets try it!"

The technique is fairly simple, whereby you select a portion of your photo to remain sharp, and blur the rest. By amping up the colors a little you can get the feel of the objects in frame looking smaller than they really are. It helps to have an image with perspective that is high off the ground, which helps to give the illusion that you're looking down on a miniature modeled world.

Here are a few of mine:

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4 comments:

Blake Johnson said...

THAT IS SO COOL! it looks so realistically fake..or something.

Brandy said...

the snow one didn't look as impressive as the rest (the tire tracks I think did it) but that is one of the coolest "Cheats" I've seen a while!

Unknown said...

Brandy- I thought the very same thing. I was thinking about altering the angle of blur a bit. Same goes for the parking garage pic.

It's really quite incredible how easy a fix it is. (and how easily your eye can be fooled)

Unknown said...

OH and thanks Raider! =p

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