Sunday, August 24, 2008

Tilt Shift

There is a photoshop technique that I have been fascinated with for some time called "Tilt Shift" It is a process where you take a photo (usually a landscape of some sort) and give it an effect of being a miniature scale model vs a large reality scaled landscape.
While on the Scott Kelby Worldwide Walk, I took a photo that when I viewed it set off the alarms..."MUST TILT SHIFT"!!! lol...this was the end result.





The effect can be achieved with a photograph with a large depth of field, (artificially creating a small depth of field on your focus plane. Your focus area stays sharp, everything else is blurred slightly out of focus. Wikipedia has a couple great links on "Tilt Shift":

Tilt-shift photography
Tilt-shift miniature faking

2 comments:

Raining Crafts & Dogs said...

There is also a really good tutorial here that gives good step-by-step instructions. It is fun to play with!

Jonah said...

Hi, nice photo....I'm just getting started with tilt shift. I've put up a few photos on my blog.
Maybe one day I'll be able to afford a tilt shift lense...and a suitable camera for it too!