travel Tilt-shift photography

Posted March 26, 2006 • Comments Off on Tilt-shift photography

Lately in the blogosphere there’s been quite a fad for tilt-shift photography, a technique of making a photo of real objects look like a photo of tiny scale models. The effect, especially of trees and cars, looks like an overhead shot of a model railroad setup.

This is a tutorial for the method, and this is a collection of tilt-shift photos on Flickr.

I just went through my photos looking for something I could easily adapt to this technique. I have a couple taken of the beach at Waikiki from our (high-floor) room at the Marriott, and I have a couple old ones of the inside of the Toronto SkyDome, from the bar in the attached Renaissance hotel, where I stayed during the 2003 Worldcon, and I have a few of Boston from above, taken from the window of the hotel I stayed at during the 2004 Worldcon.

But none of them are as good for this as a picture I didn’t even take. Jeff took this in Germany. And we’re gonna make it look like a toy.

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It’s kinda cool. Let’s do a Hawaii one.
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Ha! Check out the trees on the island on the left. That’s groovy.