I saw my first example of Tilt Shift Photography last week on Danny’s site and then the same day Paul bought it up on the way home from work.
Now i believe there’s a few different flavours to this “Tilt Shift” business but the ones that appeal to me the most are these tilt shift miniature fakes where a lifesize location or object is manipulated so that it looks like a photograph of a miniature scale model.
I did some sniffing about on flickr and came up with this great set of photos there’s a heap of great ones in there so check more of them out.
This one is students at Dokkyo University.
Some roof tops in Saitama.
A yard of sorts in Saitama.
Buildings and streets from Hokkaido.
A road with moving traffic from Kawaguchi Saitama.
I also went over to Vimeo and found this tutorial on creating Tilt Shift images in Photoshop, the quality of the movie is lacking but the tutorial is informative.
There’s also a book on Amazon by Naoki Honjo called Small Planet that may be up your alley.
Tilt-Shift Photoshop Tutorial from Earthfusion on Vimeo.
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I saw the same thing on one of Danny’s post. Would love to get into photography, but it’s an expensive hobby. Photoshop will have to do for now…
They look awesome, i tried a couple of Tilt Shift videos yesterday… need a tripod and need to be up very high, at least 8-10 stories..
Vehicles and people in the scenery below look shit hot too.
I also have a process in Final Cut Express that does this same effect. Just need Stable interesting footing from way up high…
What Plug in do you use? how to you achieve this?
Is this tutorial actually about tilt shift or just selective focus? It seems it doesn’t change the plane… I’d love to know if it were possible to change the plane in photoshop – it’s a great effect but I’m not sure I could justify the lenses (or a view camera) just to do it lol!
Not sure Danielle, not an expert on photography or PS … will be doing some more research on it though.
But, what if you use tilt-shift to take pictures of actual miniature sets? That would be very cool.
Interesting take on it Billy, i would need to find a miniature set first … and i don’t know where to start with that one.
Interesting stuff. It really looks cool. I call it art.
I love the one with the rooftops! And I agree with Ryan, this is art.
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Neat photos!!
There’s an exhibition on at Bunkamura titled Visual Deception I went to today. There are couple of tilt shift photos in the exhibition by a Japanese photographer. I didn’t make a note of his name and when I was searching for it, google brought me back to this post I remember from last year!
Now, what was that guys name? That’ll teach me to NOT buy the catalog.
i also like collect tilt-shift video, photos and tutorial on tilt-shift blog
For a growing selection of shots taken with the real thing… a proper tilt-shift setup using bellows, camera movements etc, check here. Nice article BTW.
http://alfiegoodrich.com/2010/10/tokyo-tilt-shift-pt-1/