Tilt-Shift photography is basically the use of of camera movements on small and medium size cameras. In many cases, it refers to tilting the lens relative to the image plane and using a large aperture to achieve a very shallow depth of field. The result is a blurring of parts of the image for de-emphasis purposes and the possible effect of reducing huge objects to miniature models.
Sounds complex, but here are some very nice examples that should explain everything.
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Awesome…
If we all lived in the world from the Mr.Rogers Intro. . .
such a beautiful picture, amazing
I’m a daily visitor, and love the site. But forgive me, i must disagree with you. This effect is done post-production, usually with Photoshop. If you Google tilt-shift tutorial, you’ll find loads of site that will show you how to do this in just a few minutes. But for it to look really good, the picture has to have a certain perspective. Usually from overhead (at least slightly), lots of small points of interest, and something near the center to focus on.
That’s actually a Photoshop effect, called “miniature effect”:
http://photojojo.com/content/post-processing/miniature-model-effect-photoshop/
Hi, thanks for the brilliant tutorial. The tutorial helped me improving my skills pretty much. It’s at all times excellent to get some formidable inspiration and I hope to read more of such posts here the next time because nobody will ever stop learning new stuff. Props
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