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- handheldchimp, on 11/17/2008, -7/+103I've never seen this type of photography before. This is unreal.
- spynes, on 11/16/2008, -11/+99you know its just a model train guy who spent loads of money and time to fool digg users.
To said model train guy, WE ARE ON TO YOUR SHENANIGANS! - mnortei, on 11/17/2008, -2/+88oh *****, one page? sweet
- Neiby, on 11/17/2008, -5/+58I'm no photographer, so I have no idea, but how many of those are photos taken by real tilt-shift cameras and how many are just people tweaking with blurring and filters in Photoshop?
- crazzy88ss, on 11/17/2008, -1/+42To do it properly, you use a special lens.
- liljay2k, on 11/17/2008, -2/+31http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tuto ...
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -1/+25First step in taking over the world, is to take tilt-shift photography to make people look like insignificant little ants. You can crush them with your foot.
- PacificDub, on 11/17/2008, -0/+24"What is this? A school for ants?"
- SpeedSteamBoat, on 11/17/2008, -0/+19...go on.
- enog24, on 11/17/2008, -2/+19I didn't read the description before I looked at the photos. I looked at them and thought it was photographers trying to make miniatures look real. I was thinking they didn't do too good of a job. After reading the description I was surprised.....I'm an idiot.
- tnoy, on 11/17/2008, -1/+12How about some photos done with a tilt-shift lens that actually uses the lens in the way it was originally intended?
- Virgule, on 11/17/2008, -0/+10Is it right to assume that the exact opposite of tilt-shifting will make miniatures look life like?
- DubiousDrewski, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9You wanna see little people having sex? Isn't there already a whole branch of porn devoted to that?
- crazyhorse13, on 11/17/2008, -0/+9Cool effect + no slideshow = dugg.
- misternils, on 11/17/2008, -1/+10You can do many other cool things with tiltshift photography than just make the world look tiny. This was a pretty stinted example of of tiltshift photography.
- DeathRay2K, on 11/17/2008, -1/+10Let me save you the trouble:
http://www.vincentlaforet.com/
http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/examples.php - jonathono2000, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8How 'bout some tilt-shift porn already!?!
- misternils, on 11/17/2008, -0/+8no offense, but you would be a photography teachers nightmare.
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -2/+10I so read that as "Tit Shift Photography"
- Floris, on 11/17/2008, -5/+13This is freaking awesome. Someone reshoot the matrix in this effect :p :)
- CaptainRedbeard, on 11/17/2008, -0/+7Tilting and shifting refers to tilting and shifting the lens relative to the image plane, not applying gradient blurs to a 2D image in photoshop. This, in a page the article links to, is called "Tilt-Shift miniature faking", and is actually more just simulating limited depth-of-field.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photograph ... - dpollitt, on 11/17/2008, -1/+8Most of those are legit t/s. They are all pretty popular images if you watch out in the community.
- assbeard, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6tilt shift is not a fad. this isn't some stupid photoshop effect, it's done with a special kind of lens. Ever seen a photo of a building that was taken from street level, but looked perfectly straight? done with a TS lens. without it, the built would look trapezoidal.
- crazzy88ss, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6There's a big difference between a photoshop "tiltshift" and tilt shift using an actual tilt shift lens.
- EtherGnat, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6You can crudely imitate the effect in Photoshop ( http://blog.georgegumpert.com/2007/03/27/photoshop ... ), but these photos actually use a camera technique where the lens in tilted to create a very shallow depth of field effect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt_shift_photograph ...
- IxXxIRhinoIxXxI, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6The Movies Look 10 Times Cooler then the Pictures
- hawk3210, on 11/17/2008, -4/+10People need to quit with the HDR. It's KILLING photography.
- ldkronos, on 11/17/2008, -0/+6Tilt shift gives you several possibilities.
One is indeed useful for architecture. When you take a photo of a building (especially a tall one), you often don't want half of the photo being of the ground, so you point the camera upward. However, because of the perspective projection distortion, the photo of the building will not be square. The top of the building will appear narrower than the bottom. A tilt shift lens allows you to overcome this. You keep the camera pointed straight ahead, so that the plane of the building is parallel to the plane of the film/sensor (thus there is no projection distortion) but you shift the lens up so that you are only capturing the upper portion of the image (the concept behind shifting is much like cropping...the lens provides a much larger image then the film/sensor can capture, and you shift the lens to choose which part of the photo you want to crop out.
Another feature of a tilt shift is useful for landscape photograph. Often you will want to get as much of the photo in focus as possible. However, if you have some things really close like some flowers in the field, and some mountains far away, you normally need to sacrifice sharpness in one or the other. You can use a smaller aperture, but even then you still are limited in how sharp you can get everything. However, with a tilt shift lens, you keep the lens pointed straight forward but you tilt the camera to that it's pointing downward. The benefit there is that the plane of the film/sensor is a closer match to the plane of the ground, thus everything is closer to the plane of focus (that's sort of the easy way to think of it...it's actually much more complicated than that, and there's a whole mathematical theory behind it). - infernal6, on 11/17/2008, -1/+7Only some of them look like miniatures, but when they do... damn thats cool.
- Tom10803, on 11/17/2008, -1/+6Tilt shift lenses are really fun to mess around with. FYI
- 68024, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5Yeah, but you would need a really tiny camera to do that!
- onionoino, on 11/17/2008, -0/+5i'm not surprised
- inactive, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4so weird.. everything looks like toys
- amishjim, on 11/17/2008, -1/+5Yes, it's called a Tilt Shift Lens and is not cheap . . .
- afireinside13t, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4To get the really good ones, they also digitally manipulate the colors and contrast. This makes natural colors look painted on and gives the look of harsher lighting.
- vurdillac, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4It's a cool effect. Is there also a way to make miniatures appear more like full-sized objects?
- spaceshipsix, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Some of them look photoshopped.
Look at the one under "Shawn S. Ide". The focus is inconsistent on the cars in the background (the black pickup). And it looks like they forgot put the white part of the roof out of focus. Videos at the end are sweet. - 68024, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4Stop the spam!
- afireinside13t, on 11/17/2008, -0/+4You tilt and shift the lens relative to the film (or detector in a digital camera). This tilts the plane that you are focusing on and creates a really small depth of focus.
- TheHerk, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3It does have an uncanny effect of making everything look like it came from The Land of Make Believe. My brain was onto this phenomenon before my consciousness caught up. It is very strange to look at.
- DubiousDrewski, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3If you think it's a fad, then you don't know what it is and what it can do. Yes, it can create this miniature look, but that's just one thing this kind of lens can do.
- rootsm3, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4I feel fat now.
- Hinducow28, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3I prefer this method: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbETsbv1NZ4
- bilious, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4The photographers are using the Tilt-Shift lenses (or sometimes post-processing effects) to create photos the brain sees a a photograph of a miniature scene. While T-S lenses are used, and were designed for, the purpose you state - this is just another use that tricks you much more than "Oh look, everything is in focus".
- CrushThemTorg, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Indeed. Tilt-shift lenses are used for architectural photography, right? I'd like to see something that can't be faked in five minutes with simple Photoshoppery.
- chesterjosiah, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3Yep, dugg for one page.
- minorgods, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3from the first sentence of the first paragraph: "Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model."
I skipped it too.. :/ - bjs3171, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3wow. not all of those worked, but the ones that did, damn. what is it that makes the photos look like models? The depth of field?
- voodoosteve84, on 11/17/2008, -0/+3So high-angle, blurry foreground and blurry background = everything looks like models. Interesting.
- glitchbit, on 11/17/2008, -1/+4amazing, I'm into photography and I had not seen this before now!
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