Tuesday, August 18, 2009

50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

50 Beautiful Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography

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. Below we present 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography. All examples are linked to their sources. We strongly encourage you to explore other works of the photographers we’ve featured in this post.

To add good miniature effect to your photographs, shoot subjects from a high angle (especially from the air). It creates the illusion of looking down at a miniature model. A camera equipped with a tilt-shift lens, which simulates a shallow depth of field, is essentially all you need to start.

Fake model tutorial...
I’m Jeff Butterworth, the founder of Alien Skin Software. Mostly I’m a programmer, but occasionally I dabble in photography at the hobbyist level. Here you’ll see one of my favorite uses of Bokeh, our lens simulator and selective focus tool. We are going to make a picture of a real scene look like it is a miniature model, like a toy train set. Close up pictures of small objects usually have very shallow depth of field. That means that objects at a certain distance are in focus and things get blurry rapidly as you move closer or farther from that distance. In contrast, a photo of a far away subject is more likely to have everything in focus. If we use Bokeh to simulate that shallow depth of field, we can trick the viewer into thinking they are looking at something small. Before we get started, there are two more techniques you should remember. First, use a shot taken from high and far away, like from a tall building looking down on the rest of a city. A close up shot of one large subject is just not going to work. Second, boost the contrast and saturation to make everything look more like plastic toys.

You may also want to take a look at the following related posts:

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