Tilt-shift or Fake Miniature Photography

nadeemnirvana · December 21, 2008, 5:29pm

http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/1148/londonjs9.jpg

zobia · January 25, 2009, 6:10am

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sorry nadeemnirvana, i just made a new thread of it…since i dont have an example myself.

soo please share more

nadeemnirvana · January 25, 2009, 10:43pm

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dang i thought some1 hacked my account lol, but yes this is an interesting topic :)

Mrs_weasel · January 27, 2009, 11:42pm

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when i look at the autos they look like toys, but then when i look at the people they look real. I am confused some tell me .

zobia · January 27, 2009, 11:44pm

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^ ya that is what is called Tilt Shift or Fake miniature Photography. :D

ps. sorry nadeem, i had to do it cuz its right place was here, and not a bokeh thread :D

Simply_Seema · January 29, 2009, 6:05pm

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Is it photoshopped or sum other tool????

afaaf · January 31, 2009, 1:42am

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cool stuff

Niksik · January 31, 2009, 1:48am

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So tell us the details on this.

Crescent · January 31, 2009, 8:19am

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Hey fellow RKS guppies, here is an article on this technique in the New York times:

Tilt-shift photography may be destined to become a visual cliché. But for the moment, this playful technique — which can make shots of cityscapes, train stations and loading docks appear to be photos of obsessively detailed scale models — is flourishing on photo-sharing sites like Flickr. This year it even inspired the sincerest form of flattery: fakery.

Tilt-shift lenses permit an unusual degree of control over a picture’s depth of field, allowing for more variation in what is in focus and what is not. In recent years, Olivo Barbieri and a handful of other adventurous art photographers found a novel application for the lenses. By radically skewing the gradient of focus in a landscape image, the photographer can make us feel disoriented, as if we’re looking close-up at a miniature. Barbieri’s aerial shots of Las Vegas make you wonder, What kind of person would bother to construct a perfect replica of the Luxor casino? No kind, of course, and that’s the point.

Making real tilt-shift pictures requires expensive photo equipment. But that has not deterred the multitudes who this year submitted their photos to Flickr’s Tilt-Shift Miniature Fakes pool. These are conventional digital photographs that have been manipulated in Photoshop to mimic Barbieri’s focal tricks. There’s a forlorn municipal golf course, an Ikea parking lot, an Auburn-L.S.U. football game — all cast in the same tiny unreality.

In principle, it’s not hard to make a fake: essentially, pick an area in a photo that you want to sharpen, then blur the rest. (Unnatural color saturation, one helpful fake-tilt-shift tutorial offers, “makes it look more as if it’s built from polystyrene and lichen.”) In practice, it’s harder. “Mini Portsmouth” may have started out as just another charming quayside snapshot, but somebody spent an hour or two getting the level of Gaussian blur perfect enough to make you wonder, if only for a second, whether it was a model.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_19_tiltshift.html

Also , here it is in video format, its a really cool technique, and you can also check out this user’s other videos using the same technique:

http://vimeo.com/1953467

Lusi · February 1, 2009, 1:42am

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^^ Hey cresi, thank you for sharing the article, I was actually wanted to know more process and technique.

Nadeem, very nice! Pls share more of tilt shift…