... something about tilt-shift-photography

Hi there deviants!
Some weeks ago I discovered an interesting and very funny-looking photo-technique: Tilt-Shift-Photography (Wikipedia: [link]). Most interesting: The miniature-faking.

Before I go further into detail - here are my tries with it:

City: :thumb137008540: ([link])
Village: :thumb137008754: ([link])
Mountain: :thumb137008615: ([link])
Rails: :thumb137008700: ([link])
People: :thumb137746024: ([link])
(edit: damnit only premium members can insert pictures...)

As you can see - everything looks like toys.

Originally these pictures were made by tilting the lense. But since these tilt-shift-lenses are veeeery expensive - I did it digitally by blurring specific parts of the image.

You can find lots of tutorial about this technique. Here on deviant for example: [link]

Some advices from my side ...
Optimal conditions for the source image:
- elevated position
- only few dof-blur (since you want to add blur by yourself)
- bright sunlight with hard shadows
- high contrast + intensive colors
Basically the same conditions when you would photograph your model trains (or some miniature city, .. whatever).

Would be glad to see some results by anyone
If you have questions - feel free to ask.

Greetings
Philip

It was more like a coma

I will now try to upload lots of images to get the gallery up to date to my current "progress" (for example the "Trains of the past" series - just look in my gallery )

I also wanted to start some kind of photography feature every month. Hope I'll find my time for this. There are lots of great unrecognized photographer herer on dA.

At the moment I don't have a camera. That's really a strange feeling... I am getting so "unbalanced". Maybe I use this chance an play around with an analog one from my Dad. Could be fun. But using a dark room takes so much time - we will see.

Thanks for all your support again - I will write something more interesting soon, I promise!

Greetings
- Philip