Shilt-Tift
Published May 1st, 2007Last night I decided to play around and add a new photo trick to my repertoire. This, of course, is like saying I can swing different sized toothpicks to hit a baseball and pretending that’s both effective and a skill. But hey, why be mediocre with just one toothpick when you can be mediocre with many?
The trick I wanted to learn is called tilt-shift photography. Of course, to do it right and “for reals” you need some expensive camera equipment and lenses. Things I don’t have. So to add to my collection of mediocre HDR shots, I now know how to fake tilt-shifting.
The technique is pretty cool - the end effect is that any picture you take looks like it’s of a miniature landscape, instead of real. There are of course a ton of examples on flickr. Some are fun, others are positively eerie.
Of course this technique works best if you take a picture from the same vantage point you’d take a picture of a model diorama - up high. I’ll have to go through my catalog of pictures, but I was able to do a couple last night. One turned out better than the other.
So yeah - fun little technique, surprisingly easy to fake and gives me one more thing to think about when I have my camera around.
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