The "FAKE" Tilt Shift Photo Challenge!
I have been checking out this technique for some time and decided it would make for a really fun challenge. Below you will find a brief description of what Tilt Shift photography is.
Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.
Altering the focus of the photography in Photoshop (or similar program) simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is.
In addition to focus manipulation, the tilt-shift photography effect is improved by increasing color saturation and contrast, to simulate the bright paint often found on scale models.
Most faked tilt-shift photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. The technique is particularly effective on buildings, cars, trains and people.
Now that we got that out of the way...
HERE IS A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TILT SHIFT PICS!
Go through your hard drive and find a few pics that you think would look really nifty when edited this way. You can also get out and shoot a "fresh" pic.
When you are happy with what you have created, post them in this thread.
Quick, simple and fun!
Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model.
Altering the focus of the photography in Photoshop (or similar program) simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is.
In addition to focus manipulation, the tilt-shift photography effect is improved by increasing color saturation and contrast, to simulate the bright paint often found on scale models.
Most faked tilt-shift photographs are taken from a high angle to further simulate the effect of looking down on a miniature. The technique is particularly effective on buildings, cars, trains and people.
Now that we got that out of the way...
HERE IS A TUTORIAL ON HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN TILT SHIFT PICS!
Go through your hard drive and find a few pics that you think would look really nifty when edited this way. You can also get out and shoot a "fresh" pic.
When you are happy with what you have created, post them in this thread.
Quick, simple and fun!
Tags: miniature, models, photography, shift, tilt
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Permalink Reply by Erin on -
Sweet, sounds fun. This is one of those things I have wanted to try out for a long time but have never gotten around to it. I'll have to see if I have anything fake t/s worthy.
If you haven't seen it, this guy made a cool time lapse tilt shift video that I thought looked pretty cool. He used real t/s lenses so it's not the fake method, but cool none the less.
Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on -
Here are my first attempts at this, not that great, I will have to get out and shoot for this method.
Captain's Quarters
Key West
Tybee Island
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Permalink Reply by Erin on
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Pretty cool Ryan. I think I'm going to have to go out and shoot for this as well...this has made me realize that I shoot absolutely nothing from above
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on
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Yeah, if anything I always try to get as low as I can.
This is a really cool technique. Really easy to pull off in Photoshop as well.
Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Permalink Reply by Shane E. on -
My helicopter has a flat tire right now, but once its fixed I'm gonna get right on this.
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Permalink Reply by Ryan Armbrust on
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HA HA, thanks Smart-Ass!
You can take these type of shots from the roof top of a building, a pedestrian bridge etc...
GET ON IT!
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Permalink Reply by Christina Gnadinger on -
sounds like fun and you know i've always wanted to try this! i'll have to root through my photos over the weekend to see if i have anything that will work or if i need to make a field trip.
BTW .. those are some pretty nice shots you've done already .. :D
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Permalink Reply by David Becker on -
The "FAKE" "FAKE" Tilt Shift Photo Challenge!
O this is fun!
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Permalink Reply by Lizzie Morrison on -
I tried this a couple of weeks ago after seeing it on JPg.. heres the couple that i tried.
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Permalink Reply by David Becker on
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The "FAKE" "FAKE" Tilt Shift Photo Challenge!
O this is fun!
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Permalink Reply by Robert Glasnovic on -
Sweet a! Count me in. I've done a few of these before:
Lift at Red River Gorge
Jefferson Community College
I'll do some new ones for this challenge.
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Permalink Reply by David Becker on
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Sorry for the wasted bandwidth - here is the photo
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