Photo Quickies

PhotoQuickie has been experimenting with tilt-shift photography, well that is to say modifying some of our photos with a tilt-shift effect. What is tilt-shift? Well PhotoQuickie can’t really give you a complete definition, but pictures with this effect are easy to identify; the objects in focus look like little toys.

Given proper source material, applying the tilt-shift effect can have startling results. Being still an amateur, We hardly have good results. So here is a blog with tilt-shift photos that PhotoQuickie finds amazing. Another great source for examples and help is the Flickr Tilt-shift Minature Fakes Group.

After seeing some examples, PhotoQuickie was enthusiastic about trying this ourselves. We looked for some tutorials online and found excellent step-by-step instructures to duplicate the tilt-shift effect in Photoshop (a key step that is missing is to invert the selection before the lens blur). The second option we encounter was to build our own tilt-shift lens (of course we are too poor to buy a TS lens, and have lenses of higher priority to buy first), but that seems somewhat ghetto to our eye.

Read more about: What is a tilt-shift lens, tilt-shift photographers and their work,

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