TILT-SHIFT

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Spoiler!

Not taken with a tilt-shift lens but this is my first attempt to imitate miniature faking. The fucking lens cost about $1200-$2000+ so I'll stick with PS for now. This one was taken in DC, summer of 2009.

[/Pi]

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.

[Skyve]

Really nice.

[Shomari]

Looks good!
..maybe a little sharpen or high pass on the center area.

[Skyve]

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.

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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 =)

Spoiler!

Pain in the ass to read but it's worth it. That is if you really want to get the concept behind real tilt-shift photography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheimpflug_principle

OR...fuck it and just use digital post-processing.
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[Doron]

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...

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LOL Doron

[poehalcho]

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

[Doron]

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.

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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.