Comments on: Do You Recognize These Famous Places in Tilt Shift Photos?

By: Kyan Blue » Tourist Attractions, Tilt-shift Style!

Kyan Blue » Tourist Attractions, Tilt-shift Style! — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:20:11 +0000

[...] But to the point: a new favourite blog of mine, Light Stalking, has a great post that dares you to guess the identity of internationally-renowned landmarks that have been tilt-shifted into a rather misleading perspective. I got 6 out of 11. You? [...]

By: Neue Links

Neue Links — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:31:15 +0000

[...] 5 Great Tilt Shift Photography Tutorials | Light Stalking – [...]

By: Joe

Joe — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 08:40:30 +0000

Here is my attempt of faking the tilt shift effect with Photoshop, but also combining time lapse…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5g30tezYq4

By: It’s Official. | Matt's Blog

It’s Official. | Matt's Blog — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:24:50 +0000

[...] need a tilt-shift lens. (But good luck finding one under $1,000.) Faking it in Photoshop is, well, faking [...]

By: oisteink

oisteink — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:39:31 +0000

I’ll agree with kurakensama. Just like with HDR only a few manage to pull it off using software only while retaining the intended technique.

If you want to try this out yourself using software keep in mind that all parts of the area you want to keep un-shifted needs to be at the same distance from you. Or mask out what you want to keep and do the shifting on a separate layer.

Nr 1, 5 and 10 uses wrong composition, or could benefit from a layered shift using a mask. They work initially for the first glance but your brain will see through it when both close and distant parts are in focus.

Nr 2 and 7 uses tall buildings that keep in focus for their entire height while the areas surrounding them stay shifted. My guess would be they’re using proper equipment, or advanced techniques.

By: kurakensama

kurakensama — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:36:44 +0000

@MatStace With a real lens, the on-focus area is always equidistant to the camera. That’s the only one thing; I like your idea anyway

By: g

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:41:40 +0000

About the first shot…

I don’t know if it’s ‘wrong’ or right, but its definitely not a good photo. Even for gimmicky tilt shift. The compositon is horrible, and the tilt shift only makes it worse.
It looks to me like a careless tourist shot that is also extremely out of focus.

By: MatStace

MatStace — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:05:16 +0000

@kurakensama That’s a pretty strong statement without any explanation to back it up – perhaps you could explain to the rest of us why, in your opinion, the effect is “wrong”- is it because the effect is vertical rather than the more usual horizontal?

I would agree that it’s wrong in the sense of the image has the distortion found when using that particular lens at 10mm and angling the camera up or down slightly, but other than that, I@m pretty happy with the shot ;-)

By: LightStalking

LightStalking — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:20:45 +0000

@Martin – thanks for stopping by. And if you keep writing such great content, we’ll keep sending the links you way. ;)

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 21 May 2009 04:22:58 +0000

I got some of them right (I don’t know all the locations, and hence didn’t have a chance of getting them all!).

You’ve pulled together a great collection of tilt-shift photos – some very good examples in that list.

(And btw, thanks for the linkage)