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I love tilt-shift videos. The first time I saw one and not know what tilt-shift was, I really thought they were miniatures, until I saw a shit-ton of detail on the video that it could not possibly be miniatures.

Really nice.

I understand that you use a picture and tilt another then blend it in but I don't see how that gives the picture that awesome "miniature/fake" feel to it.

A real tilt-shift picture requires a specific kind of lens that has moving (tilting/shifting) parts. That means that the camera, or more specifically, the image plane (film/sensor) remains in the same place while the lens moves. This effect causes the rest of the image to become blurred while a specific area is kept sharp - this is also known as selective focus.

At least this is what I understand. I never tried using a tilt/shift lens myself so I only have the theory, not the experience.

As for why, that's a trick your brain plays. It also helps to make the colors slightly more saturated to enhance that "plastic texture" in the picture. This one had saturation up to around 75%.

@Shomari:
Yeah...using the facebook link didn't really help either. So I changed it to the one in my dA account. I'll keep your suggestion in mind next time I do pseudo tilt-shift photos. Thanks =)

and here I was keeping on hitting shift to tilt the image and see something awesome...

10 minutes of my life wasted before I noticed the spoiler...

LOL Doron

Ahh I feel like I'm looking at Terminal in mw2 D:
(that's not negative)

But maybe more of the safety rail should have been 'tilt shifted'. right now the border of where it's shifted is a bit...'heavy on the eye'? it seems unnatural to look at it.

it looks pretty awesome though, like real life video game bloom effects

Okay, in all seriousness now,

Judging by the posted vid, I think you went a bit overboard with the blurring, making it look well, weird.

Hmm... there's definitely room for improvement. Then again, this was a first-shot thing - took me literally less than 2 minutes to do it. I just wanted to try and see if it works. When I find the time, I might retouch it again since I still have the original photo intact.

Honestly, I really don't like this result but since I'm on a tight schedule (and I'm too lazy to go back and redo it properly), I just left it as it is.