Eiffel Tower by Arnarbi.
Dave introduced to me to the wonder that is tilt-shift photography tonight. To be honest, I am not sure how it works or anything but am in serious awe of the optical effect that it achieves, which makes photographs of real, full sized things look like teeny tiny little models.
I could seriously look at these pictures for hours but have restrained myself and picked out a few for you to look at here. If you are interested in seeing more (and they are well worth a meander through) then there are loads here.
By Dutchb0y.
Mini Multnomah Falls by pforbinesque.
By Vincent LaForet?
New York scene by 01101001 01100001 01101110.
By 27147.
By metaphors.
Tram at Central, Hong Kong by roywkw.
Awesome aren’t they?
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good gravy those ARE awesome. seriously cool. thanks for sharing!
Wow! Those are awesome! How did you do that? I’ve been to that waterfall. It’s in Corbett, OR, right?
Thank you! I wish I could take credit for being so amazing at photography but I was half asleep when I made the post and totally forgot to properly credit the photographers! I KNEW there was something missing when I hit ‘post’! ;)
I really don’t know how they did it but have added links to the originals now and I’m sure they would be happy to explain! I’m not sure I want to know as it makes it seem less magical. :)
Its done with a special camera lens. You need a digital or 35mm SLR, and then an attachable lens called a Tilt-Shift lens, which bends according to where you want the blur.
I think technically it is in Bridal Veil, but you are close enough. I’m in Troutdale, which is just about 15 minutes away from the falls.
Wow I love this, the ones of the cars aren’t as good, but I def dig it!
Truly amazing! I’ve always loved photography but have never seen this technique before.
That is amazing. How do those little people live everyday without dieing of a heart attack? I be scared to be so tiny.
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So what IS tilt-shift photography?
Haha, I honestly have no idea! I just thought they looked amazing – I’m a terrible photographer personally. :)
the illusion that they are little models, is just amazing. i love the blur technique on both ends of the picture to create that effect.
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That is sweet! My brother walked in as I was looking at the pictures, and said “You know those aren’t real, don’t you?” =P
Definitely awesome!
I want me one of those lenses!
:D
So awesome! I sense a photo outing in my near future. You should check out Photojojo for tips and tricks.
I think I am going to have a go at the Photoshop tutorial and see if I can make my own! :)
Multnomah Falls! I have family in Portland…
AMAZING!!
Thank you for introducing me to tilt-shift photography. What a wonderful world. And yes, I’d rather be in Paris too!
These look great! My brother is into photography and he showed me a few of his that he did like this. I really love the colors in these photos, though.
so amazing~! :)
How about crediting the photos to photographer? Posts like these are great but kindles annoyances and failure of respect to the photographer/s.
Please do so with your next posting.
Sorry, I posted this in the middle of the night and just wanted to do it and go to bed! I totally forgot to credit them properly although I intended to when I first started writing the post! All the other photos on my blog are my own so I’m not used to posting other people’s stuff!
I’ve corrected it now though with links to the original shots and everything and consider myself well and truly chided!
Hi,
I have looked out all photos uploaded on instantshift… All are awesome….
Thanks for sharing information..
Oh my god. These are beautiful, awesome, almost unrealistic. I’m falling in love with such photos. Tilt-shift photography huh.
So you took this like.. in a high place? Perhaps at the top of the building or what?
Ah, I wish I could take credit but I was half asleep when I made the post and forgot to add links to the clever people who actually took the original pictures. I have linked to them now and I’m sure they would be more than happy to explain how it is done. :)
all i can say is WOW!
Lovely photographs!
–Liz
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whoa interesting! the second to last pic looks like it’s from a lego set!
I know, it is amazing isn’t it?
Yes it looks just like the scenes from miniland, in legoland where they have a bunch of boats and things made from legos (it’s really cool)
Great find. Thank you for sharing.
Jamie
How in the world?
that’s bangkok
;)
haha
ours capital!
:)
you can do them online at http://tiltshiftmaker.com – you ideally need a photo taken from up on high for best effect. It just blurs the foreground/background to produce what looks like a very narrow depth of field. Check out the tilt-shift videos on youtube. Some amazing work!
W.
Nice. They look like models, but there not.
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All the cars look just like someone took a little boy’s hotwheels cars collection and put it on a realistic street. These are AMAZING!
Oh. I thought this were real like no edits. Nevertheless, beautiful. :)
That’s absolutely brilliant, I’d love to buy a book on that.
Oohh…Simply beautiful…
These are great fun. It’d be great to have somebody dressed up as a Lego figure in amongst the ‘real people’. Lego person’s world tour. It would be brilliant for a few minutes. Thanks for posting.
Mark
Thx You vry nice
Great pictures,
this guy has some fantastic tilt shift movies:
http://keithloutit.com/
I love Keith’s videos, it is realy amazing.
The best tilt-shift photos use a special lens (called a “tilt-shift lens”) to create the effect in-camera. And I think a little planned overexposure gets the colors to oversaturate, so these can be done completely in-camera.
The above-referenced http://tiltshiftmaker.com does a fair approximation from regular photos, but it’s not (and could never be) as amazing as ones shot with a real lens.
To see tilt-shift look even more amazing, check out Keith Loutit’s time lapse videos at Vimeo: http://www.vimeo.com/keithloutit
Tilt shift videos = Made of Awesome.
they are simply too awesome. love the photography skill
Haaaaaa! SO neat! :)
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Wow ! Looks like miniatures !
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woah! i’ve gotta check that out! i’ve got a daily photog here in wordpress and am totally curious to the tilt out! really cool!
While this may be done with tilt photography (i.e. using a bellows extension that allows for the front lens to tilt and adjust the perspective lines), but I don’t think so.
These images look like a simple use of Photoshop by adding levels of blur. The biggest indicator in this is in the “Hollywood Sign” photo. The distance of the sign is in perspective and so if the “D” is in focus and the “H” is in focus, then everything within those two areas shoudl also be in focus as well. Obviously this is not what we see. What we see is everything in front and behind the sign is blurred, which is not how lenses work. It should be what is in front of the focus area and behind the focus area (created a “depth of field”) based on the perspective of the camera.
It is impossible in the New York and airport aerial scenes to have a natural depth of field in those photos as well, since the in focus areas are also in the same distances as the out of focus areas.
You can also see that the areas that border the out of focus areas have “blur haze” which would only happen if you were to do this effect in Photoshop.
Well, the cutest little models I’ve ever seen. And the lousiest Photoshopping, too. What a combo! What a total waste of your time and ours.
Time to bring out the Burma Shave signs.
I love looking at tilt-shift photos! They are soo neat, and like you, I could look at them for hours!
amazing! for the first 10min I couldnt believe its real scenery. And still….is it really *scrolling up and down*
very cool!
keep posting such amazing pics
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Check out tilt-shift video:
So neat!!!
Wow these are awesome! I didn’t even realize till like the 3rd one that they were toy cars hahaha.
excelent work !!!congratulations, it´s great!!! really..go on!!
COLL VERY CREATIVE..
OMG, it’s speakless….
wow its really cool… I like the photo effect. hey i want to know about tilt-shift photography.
Thank you all so much for such kind words! Thanks for visiting my blog too! It’s so fun to be able to share with you!
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Awesome!!
its amazingly tricky…n off course beautiful piece of photography….
I should get one & try out! thanks for sharing :)
They are really kool. Its weird getting your head round them, they are so interesting. Like the different location and themes of the photos as well.
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this is so cool.all this looks like those legoland models..one made of Lego bricks…can anyone please tell me the technique behind this??
here’s a downloadable freebie that will do this:
http://labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift/
And, as you might expect there an (iPhone) app for that:
http://artandmobile.com/tiltshift/
My toying around with the program suggests that even turned up to 11, it doesn’t generate quite enough focus contrast to create the “miniature” effect, but it does some nice effects short of that. Hey, it’s free; what do you expect?
So, so, cute! But I agree, the blurring has been a little over done in Photoshop in a couple of the pics.
very interesting! i do like the photos of good quality and which show something special and unusual!
thanks for sharing!
Very very awesome. I like eifels photo very much. Thank you.
Really very awezome and graet, thanks so much for share this
memories
:)) very amazing. I love stop motion. Great work. ^_^
Cool Images! I love them all!
What fun! Great to see so many people enjoying their photography :)
awesome,.. :D
I am commenting not about the photography but because I am originally from Prince Edward Island and my great-grandmother’s friend was Lucy Maud Montgomery. Everyone in my family, from her line, has red hair. So I’m considered to be Anne of Green Gables’ great grandson Allen MacCannell.
So I want royalties for the bio quote above. ;-)
Wow! What brilliant collection… Love this post. I’m trying really hard to accomplish this technique.
I’m practicing with pictures I find on the internet. :D
Anyways, thanks for sharing
wow! Amazing photographs. I am impressed!
Cosmo Mannella as an avid photographer says WOW this is extraordinary technology!!!!
Now if we can solve the rest of the world’s problems like that and minimize them!!
These photographs are fantastic, tilt shift photography is quite simply stunning real life looks like toy town images, breathtaking. Thank you for posting these images
This is crazy stuff! I like it.
hey,
this is really very good………….!
Amazing photographs. I am impressed!
Photography… video… so many ways to enjoy tilt-shift. Thanks for posting these. I now have another excuse to waste even more time on t’internet!
Wow! I need a Tilt-Shift – NOW! :D
This is a really great selection, I especially love the planes one.
I also posted some on my blog that I took and processed with tiltshiftmaker.com. I agree that you don’t get the same results that you would do with a proper lens, but for those who just want to experiment with some photos they’ve already taken, it’s a really good tool. Have a look here:
http://maxinesheppard.com/10-tilt-shift-travel-photos
many of these look like photoshop fakes, rather than photos taken with a genuine ’tilt and shift’ lens. So I checked the link to the first one, and right at the beginning it says …
This is a tilt-shift fake.
seriously, those are so awesome! Thanks for sharing ^^
You may also want to check out some pics by Jay Lee of Houston
http://www.baldheretic.com/category/photography/fake-models
very nice, thank’s :)
It’s actually real easy to do in post it’s just got to be the right photo/image. Just blur the top and bottom of the frame (as long as the shot is focused on the middle) and voila, you’re done. Obviously it’s all the more impressive when it’s done in-camera but I have my definite doubts about the eiffel tower one not having post done on it.
Hey, thanks for posting my Eiffel Tower picture :)
Andrew, that picture is completely done by post-processing. Just click it and read about the process in the flickr comments and see the related images with the in-progress shots. It is a little more involved than you describe :)
Cheers!
I hope you don’t mind! I think it is wonderful! :)
Nice useful article keep posting like this.. Thanks for sharing this info.
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Love the tilt shift effect – also in videos
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/tokyo-miniature-videos-created-by-tilt-shift/