Archive : Tilt-Shift Photography

[tweetmeme]‘Tilt Shift School’ is a short film I put together for my media class at school. It’s based in the Year 12 common room, and it basically just shows everyone chatting, laughing and playing around in front of the camera. It’s a fun little film. Don’t forget there’s an awesome tutorial for tilt shift on PhotoGuides. You may have noticed that I’ve written Technical [...]

By Adam Pash Web site and Adobe AIR application TiltShift gives your photos a tilt-shift photography effect that normally requires expensive special lenses or Photoshop chops. We’ve actually featured asimilar service once before, but TiltShift is a much better tool, offering more advanced features and more control. As Jason pointed out last time we talked abouttilt-shift photography: “Tilt-shift [...]

By Adam Pash Tilt-shift lenses create a great miniature effect on photographs of everyday things. The problem? These specialized lenses are insanely expensive (think $1,000 range). This video from Make demonstrates how to make a DIY tilt-shift lens on the cheap. Tilt-shift lenses work by slightly rotating the camera’s lens, creating a very shallow depth of field that makes pictures of normal [...]

This tutorial has been produced using Photoshop CS2 on a PC. Photoshop is a graphics editing program for enhancing photographs and producing stunning effects. Similar to playing poker, where superb knowledge of the basics is necessary to win, using Photoshop requires mastery of its fundamentals to be effective. With this in mind, a good tutorial like this can be a useful to those who want to gain [...]

Tilt-Shift miniature faking is a creative technique whereby a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to give an optical illusion of a photograph of a miniature scale model. Altering the focus of the photography in Photoshop (or similar program) simulates the shallow depth of field normally encountered with macro lenses making the scene seem much smaller than it actually is. In [...]