Tilt-shift effect.

scoop · 16 Mar 2006 at 20:41

Thought Id post this for a bit of fun and for C+C. Been playing about with using PS to mimic the effect you can get with tilt-shift lenses. Can't help think it gives a rather surreal Hornby-Railways effect to things.......

Apparently, theres a whole group devoted to this kinda stuff. Some great examples to be found, along with tutorials, at:

Linky

Comments welcome, and looking forward to seeing some other efforts.

Mohain · 16 Mar 2006 at 20:44

Haha, that really cool

rpstewart · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:05

Freaky!

There should be a wee bearded guy in a tank top running things in the background though.

Ghost in the Shell · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:10

that looks wierd!

cyKey · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:28

I've been following this for the past few weeks. I learnt about it just before it exploded. The tilt-shift lens produces a really cool effect of making things look like models. The popularity grew and grew until some clever people produced tutorials on how to do it and then boom. I held off posting about it here as I was saving the effect for the competition to add impact, nuts

boycee · 16 Mar 2006 at 21:44

you got the original? just to see a side by side

Colin_da_Killer · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:07

WOW, that is such a cool effect, i love it! Gonna go try some myself in a min. I'm a newbie, where can I find a tut for this?

mrgubby · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:17

Yet something else that I just don't get at all. Think I'll file Lomo & Tilt/shift under 'Why'

rG-tom · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:28

mrgubby said:
Yet something else that I just don't get at all. Think I'll file Lomo & Tilt/shift under 'Why'

tilt shift do have very valid uses other than this artistic effect, such as architectural photography, where you have to take a picture of say a sky scraper, you set the plane of focus with the vertical lines of the tower, but the lens is pointing up at a 45 degree angle to fit it all in....

pretty rough example but you should get it

Tom.

Gamefreak501 · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:33

That is so weird, but cool too

Carrot · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:54

Hehe, it's a brilliant effect, isn't it. I did a few when the craze kicked off a couple of weeks ago; this is one of them. Some more here.

Things change I've changed · 16 Mar 2006 at 22:58

wow thats cool, here's my attempt,

Colin_da_Killer · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:03

could someone send me a link to a tut? I'm struggling here trying to work it out without a tut, i know it's gonna have something to do with lens blurring but I can't quite get the best effect.

Things change I've changed · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:04

Colin_da_Killer said:
could someone send me a link to a tut? I'm struggling here trying to work it out without a tut, i know it's gonna have something to do with lens blurring but I can't quite get the best effect.

I used that,

http://www.flickr.com/groups/59319377@N00/discuss/72057594072639669/

cyKey · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:20

Carrot said:
Hehe, it's a brilliant effect, isn't it. I did a few when the craze kicked off a couple of weeks ago; this is one of them. Some more here.

Very nice.

Jotun · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:24

It's an interesting effect, but I Get the feeling that it wouldn't work aswell with pictures from different angles

cyKey · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:25

Evil-Penguin said:
It's an interesting effect, but I Get the feeling that it wouldn't work aswell with pictures from different angles

Nah it really doesn't. It requires a certain angle to make it worth while.

Carrot · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:29

Yeah, the angle is very important; I've found that anything with too much sky doesn't tend to work very well.

F355 · 16 Mar 2006 at 23:52

That is so cool such a great effect. I could have sworn the first two pictures were models until I realised it was the effect it brings :cool:

I want to try it out now

scoop · 17 Mar 2006 at 08:49

Lovin' the boats and the hillside.....

As requested, the original from my first post for comparison below. Not the best scaling job as I/m not by my usual PC!

CyKey: Apologies for stealing your thunder, mate!