Tilt shift photography

[drweir]

Are any of you familiar with tilt shift photography?

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs.
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/photos/piazza.jpg

Basically it's adding a slight blur to key areas of the photograph. This site will do it for you and is free. Pretty darn cool!

http://tiltshiftmaker.com

[Koolpenguin89]

Tilt shift photography has a lot more going for it than miniature faking (which is what you are referring to). I think you might like this link (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/16/beautiful-examples-of-tilt-shift-photography/).

Dylan

[UndergroundLairProductions]

I was wondering what the deal was with those adult swim promos. This is awesome. :thumbsup:

[TheMightySeamus]

Now that is cool. I wonder if I could do the same in reverse...make a miniature look real size.

[DocHoliday8403]

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg74/Docholiday8403/Florida139-tiltshift.jpg

[trspballer7]

I don't understand how this works, but it sure looks cool.

[DocHoliday8403]

It's really easy the only thing that you have to do is select the area that you want to be in focus and blur the outlying areas. I did the above picture in about 30 seconds.

[barrett]

Thats really cool!

[TreasureBox Films]

Here is on i did from San Diego Zoo

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/P7043914-tiltshift.jpg

[TreasureBox Films]

Another

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/P7023650-tiltshift.jpg

[TheMightySeamus]

Here is on i did from San Diego Zoo

I just noticed I'm your new sig. :thumbsup:

[TreasureBox Films]

Its a good quote!

[TreasureBox Films]

Yet another one of mine

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/PA034000-tiltshift.jpg

[DocHoliday8403]

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg74/Docholiday8403/100_5188-tiltshift-1.jpg

This is a picture from Epcot at Disney World
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg74/Docholiday8403/100b0741-tiltshift.jpg

The boardwalk at Ocean City, Maryland

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg74/Docholiday8403/medievalfaire173-tiltshift.jpg

Driftwood on the shores of Lake Erie

[trspballer7]

can someone explain why the selective focusing/blurring causes the eye to react like it does?

[KingNikan]

can someone explain why the selective focusing/blurring causes the eye to react like it does?
I think its because the blurring takes all the focus only to that one object

[NMP50]

I was browsing digg and found this tilt shift video
http://vimeo.com/1953467

[Koolpenguin89]

It doesn't really have anything to do with the eye. When you see photos of actual model cities and such, they are shot with a macro lens, which results in super shallow depth of field in the image. When you apply the same thing to a real life picture, it looks like your looking at a model. That being said, does everyone realize that tilt shift photgraphy is an actual type of photography? Not just some type of post effect. You use special tilt shift lenses that take the plane of focus and moves it to a different place in the image plane (if that makes sense).

Heres a picture of a tilt shift lens:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images/modify-tse-lens/modified-tse-90.jpg


Dylan

[TreasureBox Films]

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/P1012952-tiltshift.jpg

Bisbee, AZ
This town is really cool. It all hilly and really old.

[TreasureBox Films]

Also in Bisbee-a mine!
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/P1012944-tiltshift.jpg

[MitchellStafiej]

It doesn't really have anything to do with the eye. When you see photos of actual model cities and such, they are shot with a macro lens, which results in super shallow depth of field in the image. When you apply the same thing to a real life picture, it looks like your looking at a model. That being said, does everyone realize that tilt shift photgraphy is an actual type of photography? Not just some type of post effect. You use special tilt shift lenses that take the plane of focus and moves it to a different place in the image plane (if that makes sense).

Heres a picture of a tilt shift lens:
http://www.northlight-images.co.uk/content_images/modify-tse-lens/modified-tse-90.jpg


Dylan
If I were to use that lens on a 35mm Adapter would it work?

Mitch

[trspballer7]

Well it is an ef lens so it would fit, but it is a 90mm so it may loose ALOT of light and cause vingetting.

[MitchellStafiej]

Well it is an ef lens so it would fit, but it is a 90mm so it may loose ALOT of light and cause vingetting.
Yeah, but would it have the same effect as in still photography?

Mitch

[drweir]

Those are excellent pictures!

[Ladri.]

Yeah, but would it have the same effect as in still photography?

Mitch

I'm not quite sure. If everything was moving, it could lose its effect very easily, I think. There are just some things models can't do and I think film would make things seem more realistic. Those are just my thoughts. Don't quote me on it.

[Fisherking]

In case anyone's in the dark, the characteristic tilt-shift look is an actual factual lens effect. It occurs as a result of a lens which literally 'tilts,' putting the lens plane at an angle to the image plane. What you end up getting is a focus plane at an angle to the image plane.

It's very easy to fake with After Effects or Photoshop.

And it's awesome.

[Skycarl]

Fisherking, so you set the virtual camera up from the side on an angle down?
I'm trying to picture how to set that up in AE. Can you give a hint? Thanks

[Fisherking]

I wouldn't think you'd need a virtual camera. I'd just use some rectangular masks and apply a blur filter.

[Skycarl]

Okay, that makes sense. I was taking a simple solution and making it difficult. Thanks

[Fisherking]

Having a brain-fart. It happens.

No worries.

There may well be a way of doing it properly, and an appropriate mathematical function to blur appropriately, given a fully-set-up shot with distances set and so forth, but I doubt the difference would be so profound that anyone will notice.

[JackLawrence]

It's interesting that you can do it with video.
Logically there must be a way to to everse the effect, ie shoot a miniature then tilt it to look real. Does anybody know if this is possible? If it is then it would be alot easier than changing the frame rate, getting the ratios right etc.

[TreasureBox Films]

Those are excellent pictures!
MIne?

[TreasureBox Films]

New one coming soon!

[TreasureBox Films]

http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww319/Jamespants/PA064072-tiltshift.jpg

[rrh]

It's interesting that you can do it with video.
Logically there must be a way to to everse the effect, ie shoot a miniature then tilt it to look real. Does anybody know if this is possible? If it is then it would be alot easier than changing the frame rate, getting the ratios right etc.

It's much simpler to blur a clear image than to clarify a blurry image. When shooting models to look large, shoot with the smallest aperture possible.

There are some tilt-shift effects that can't be replicated easily in post. For example, the tilt-shift can be used to align the plane of focus through more than one subject at different distances from the camera. Here's an example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jcouples17.jpg

[FyceDesigns]

Nice website! These images are really cool, and I can't stop looking at them. They intrigue me...

Here's an image I found online:
http://z.about.com/d/golondon/1/0/J/6/-/-/aerial4.JPG

And here's after I edited it:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/fyce/banners-and-avatars/aerial4-tiltshift.jpg