Wow interesting photo technique, intrigued now.

second :):)

nice article

lol
My RSS reader picked up this story with the title: 50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shit Photography

There are certainly some fantastic photos in this article. Nice typo in the first h3 element, by the way.

My RSS reader picked up this story with the title: 50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-Shit Photography

That’s because it says that in the secondary title.

But these photo’s are beautiful indeed.

Might want to re-check the spelling on the H3 there, not sure it’s saying what you want it to :)

Nice post otherwise!

This is a funny technique, but I feel SM is beginning to focus more on quantity and less on quality with all the “X examples of Y”-articles which just lists a ton of photos/videos/links.

I wouldn’t want to see SM disappear in the endless list of blogs that do this already, so my friendly suggestion is to focus on the more exclusive material that you have here, which made me a regular reader in the first place.

I’d like to say that I really appreciate the effort that goes into articles like these, I had no idea that such things like Tilt Shift photography existed!

The ones with the trains and cars in them were particulary awesome, probably because I’ve been doing my fair share of model railroading as a child. :3

Same for me as Jordan Moore.
I was unaware of such a interesting way of photography! Thanks!

You continue to bring us great articles.. Smashing Magazine comes up trumps again! I worked out how to do this in photoshop a couple of years ago after seeing the technique in practice on flickr. Love the technique.

Expanding a bit on what JN said, I think the articles are fine, i just wish you expanded the opinions in each to make the the articles even more interesting and probably the comments a bit juicer, if that makes any sense :P

in response to Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (November 16th, 2008, 3:42 pm) -

Its great you do so many different things, and I do really like this kind of photography,

However, I am left feeling like you simply got every single tilt-shift image you could possible find on the internet to make it up to 50.

I feel it would have been a far better article if all the images were of such a good standard as the better ones, even if there were only 20 or 30 of them.

Interesting. And amazing.

I think this article is a real shame — fake miniatures is not the only application of tilt-shift photography, and is really quite gimmicky.

I havent seen photos like these since the beata 1983 collection.

3/4 of these are awesome. I have a few that could beat out your bottom percentile.

The definition of tilt-shift photography is incredibly inaccurate.

Tilt-shifting is a reference to the fact that the focal plane is tilted (top to bottom) or shifted (left to right) so that the plane is no longer parallel to the camera. An after affect of which can be the surrealistic mini described.

Josh (above) beat me to the punch. These photos are simply using a tilt-shift lens (or photoshop to fake the effect). You will find that tilt-shift lenses are used in many disciplines of photography including skateboarding, rock climbing and fashion.

more: Link [en.wikipedia.org]

This was been posted on digg repeatedly for the last year. What are you doing? clearing the comments and reposting a couple months later? this is getting really old. The last two times this article showed up on digg there were dozens of comments about fake fake images, ie: some of the supposed miniatures are in fact real photos of real places. I dont know about this, to be honest Im just reporting what others said the last time.

The only real gripe I have is that whoever wrote this article continues to post it in digg every few months. Im very curious about this activity on digg. There are many blogs that continue to COPY ARTICLE, DELETE OLD ARTICLE, PASTE ARTICLE so that the comments are deleted, the timestamp is recent and people think its “new and fresh.” From what Ive seen, anything you see on digg at any given time that isnt a current event article, has a 50/50 shot of being a repost of something from last year or even older!

This is an awesome technique I’ve never seen before. Pretty inspiring. Thanx.

stuff in those image look like a toys

wow .. i like it .. please give us more of this set ..
thanks

@horuzzz: You’re a real smartass… This IS about real photos that look like miniatures… Geez…

Some really nice photographys!
Link [www.vimeo.com]

Like others I was unaware of this technique, and am very pleased to have it brought to my attention. In places it is stunningly effective, but quite often the blurring that takes place in the refocusing element of the technique can distract to the extent that it takes away from the picture. While a couple do not achieve the required effect at all and just look like a picture with lots of blurry bits.

great post

Nice post!!!!!!! Great!

While many of the above are interesting uses of the miniature effect of an extreme upward tilt, I don’t like using “Tilt-Shift” as the title of this group. The primary use of view camera movements is to create perspective corrected images with deep focus, near and far.

Nice article. This is a very curious effect.

I love tilt-shifting. My favorite is Link [www.flickr.com].

Some very nice examples. Some though, don’t work that well.

Sadly this article really is just a bit of digg-bait. Some of the examples are very well done but there are several photos that really just aren’t good examples.

I agree with a couple of the posters above about quantity over quality. The last article I read here was informative and well written about tidying up your coding practice. That was good. While I understand the need to cater to a large audience, SM should really try to make less of these digg type lists if they want the blog to stand out from the crowd.

Wow, one of my photos selected in the list! Thanks for the vote of confidence guys, it’s great to have your work recognised.

Link [www.flickr.com]

Mike Redfern (FoxyMcSlick)

Wow..*picks jaw from desk :)

WOW… incredible great job!

It seems a tilt shift lens is not “essentially all you need to start.”.
I’m sorry but most of these TS’s are badly faked or just poor quality, there are some great examples of TS in there but they are spoilt. Again as stated quality over quantity guys.
Name to shame (not towards the artists but to editorial needing to fill the quota) :

Nicola De Pisapia
Lachlan Sear
B Tal
Eric Lafforgue
Timmy Toucan
Therealjasonruff
darktiger
patrix - *horrible
tHE PypEr
Wmandra
Angusleonard
Jeangenie
Tarkka
Shawn S. Ide
Vladimir.d
Toshio
Unknown
….not all the fakes but the others are good enough to pass.

Some other examples:

Link [www.flickr.com]

Link [www.flickr.com]

Link [www.flickr.com]

Link [www.flickr.com]

Few of these, if any, show signs of shift, and most of them are photoshop-tilts. “A few selective blur in PhotoShop photographs” would be even more accurate title.

There are loads of very beautiful and artistic tilt/shift photographs around. Should be enough to make a wonderful 50-photographs post.

A few examples at:
Link [www.flickr.com]

Very nice! I’m always wondering how much photomanipulation is used with this type of photography.

I enjoy seeing tilt-shift (or “tiltshifta” as I sometimes call it) quasi-applied to digital environments too, like the virtual world of Second Life. Here’s something I did awhile back: Link [www.flickr.com]

generally when the band of focus is relatively small both in terms of narrowness and scope, the effect is fake, and there are indeed a number of photos in there where the t/s is created in ps. Focus can and tends to be a little more sporadic on the actual “film/digital” plane when using the lenses. And combining both tilt and shift is a bit gimmicky and has some specific uses, but it’s too bad you left out explanations and examples of why these lenses and technique (tilt and shift separately) is used beyond creating miniature worlds.

Wow, it is a great collection. Thank you.

As a couple people already pointed out, this article’s description of tilt-shift is misguided. Tilt shift photography is most commonly used in commercial and achitectural photography to correct perspective and bring the focal plane in line with the subject. It is really interesting, however, to see it used in this manner!

Most of these are pretty good, but you can tell the fakes done by the folks who don’t get how this works. Faking it is more than just blurring everything but a narrow band, because that can result in fakes that don’t work. The top-down view of the Apple Store, for example, doesn’t work because it’s just a clear middle with blurred surrounding. There’s a bridge one that doesn’t work either, because part of the top of the bridge is blurred even though it’s the same distance from the clear part below, and closer than the far shore of the river, part of which is clear.

Everything that’s the same distance from the camera should be clear for the effect to work, I think.

wow! before I read the description what tilt-shift photo is, I thought these pics are the shot of miniature model!

Total misconception of TS lenses. Tilt lens can make these effects, but most of these in here were made with photoshop masking. Come on, there are really nice image out there using TS lenses, not these…

more like “5 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography and 45 beautiful examples of Photoshop” - hahaha. very resourceful post! Thank you!

I love this stuff

This article is shameful if only because it specifies “Tilt Shift Photography” in the title, not “Tilt Shift Photoshop and Photography”. The worst part of is that any TS photographer can usually spot a fake a split second after looking at the image.

If it’s not photography just say so, there’s nothing wrong with doing it in photoshop if that’s your game. Just don’t tell unwitting readers that it’s something it’s not.

Mr. Laforet is an amazing photographer. ’nuff said. =)

Another example Link [www.desolatemetropolis.com]

i tried some myself :) check my “miniatures” here: Link [adinahutanu.wordpress.com]

I played using photoshop, because I don’t own a special tilt-shift lense :)

Somebody needs to get some shots like this at Legoland!

There are some tilt-shift photographs on CruiseJournals.com as well, in the Photography forum. Here’s a link:

Link [cruisejournals.com]

WOW~ Very nice!

Great collection! This is really some fun inspiration.

I noticed that you used Link [www.flickr.com] but gave credit to someone who had re-used my work without asking permission first. Would you folks kindly mind linking back to the appropriate original source? I hate to be a stickler, but would really appreciate setting things straight.

Thanks for including me in this list - its a real honor. If anyone has any questions or would like to know more about the Fenway or Beach shots, please just give a holler.

Just noticed that your Fenway park image is wrongly attributed to Timmy Toucan, when it should be pointing to Brian Talbot: Link [www.flickr.com]

Thought you might want to know.

sigh… my apologies to Timmy Toucan, I wanted to say that the image attributed to “It’s A Small World After All” wasn’t correct. please do excuse my bumbles.

thanks.

“The last two times this article showed up on digg there were dozens of comments about fake fake images, ie: some of the supposed miniatures are in fact real photos of real places. I dont know about this, to be honest Im just reporting what others said the last time.”

Oh wow. Smashing manages to attract some pretty ignorant comments but this is one of the best I’ve read.

I don’t know which is worse…this, or the “fantastic HDR” post.

i dont care whether or not the concept is misinterpreted. I love the work that went into the pieces!! Stunning :) Keep up the good work guys

very cool pictures and videos!

“The last two times this article showed up on digg there were dozens of comments about fake fake images, ie: some of the supposed miniatures are in fact real photos of real places (..)”

- hahaha, will leave it without even commenting…

But anyway, I don’t like the dummy blur made in photoshop

Very nice photos, excellent photo technique and nice videos….. I like it

I like the tilt-shift models, it very good and goes good with home country. Nice!

So cool! I wish I knew how to do that!

Some pretty amazing images, something new to try!

MOST OF ITS PLASTIC

Just amazing sources.

I did a post explaining what is tilt-shift and how this old technique became famous on digital photography.
Link [www.quevoisje.fr]
It’s in french, but you can googletranslate it…

Link [dogangokhan.wordpress.com]
have examples from Turkey

Here’s one of mine :

Link [www.flickr.com]
Link [www.flickr.com]
Link [www.flickr.com]

Enjoy

Wow…i didn’t know people were so touchy about photography..I wonder, why I am even here, but then I just remembered that a lot of these pictures look exactly like toy models and this effect might not be a camera, but a program–say photoshop?

I like it ))

wow… it’s awesome

thanks

Thanks for sharing - some of these are outstanding!

I’ve been toying around with tilt shift photography myself.

Here are some “before and after” tilt shift shots of the Pepperdine University campus:

Link [www.wilfernandez.com]

o m g….
thesse pics are like sooo totally amazing!!!!!

All that is old is new again.

Tilt shift has been a round for quite a while

Olivo Barbieri is an Italian photographer who has been shooting tilt/shift aerials for a long-time. Mark Tucker is a master at it, but has shifted (no pun intended) his focus. Claude Vasquez was shooting 4×5 Tilt/Shift portraits in the late eighties.

Nice technique for the right subject, but it is starting or has looked gimmicky for quite a while.

Personally, I would not be caught dead having a tilt/shift image in my book.

Hi !

Thanks a lot for this post.

I’ve wrote an article regarding this amazing technique.

I also tried to do it myself and It works pretty good ;-)

Link [www.electronic-illusions.be]

Thanks a lot again.

Regards from Belgium

I found this site which allows you experiment without having photoshop.

Link [tiltshiftmaker.com]

this could be using a lensbaby too

Check my Manhattan Tilt-Shift
Link [www.flickr.com]

here’s nine more fake tilt-shift photos. well, would be nine but one of them is already included in this massive set of fifty. anyway, here’s the link:
Link [theopenend.com]

and thanks, Vailancio Rodrigues, for these images.

simply,,,,, amazing

THIS IS SO GREAT,
AND VERY POPULAR IN BRAZIL.
IT’S A AMAZING TECNIC

I’M SORRY FOR THE GRAMATIC MISTAKES

This is absolutely amazing. I love the miniature scale it applies to everything. I really hooked and i want to try doing some photos myself
Thanks

If I may add my own to this collection. Taken in Basrah, Iraq:

Link [jamesspratt.org]

That picture is very amazing, I like that. I think my father like that, too because my father’s job is a pothographer. He He

Nice photographys! This is a very curious effect.

look at nice tilt shift video here: Link [www.youtube.com]

Cool!

Those are incredible. Especially the bathtub video.
If anyone’s interested, here’s a guide to create tilt shift of your own

Link [www.photoguides.net]

Thanks for sharing

Hi I just posted a collection of tilt shift stop motion videos and tutorials on my blog
here: Link [freshalex.blogspot.com]

Great compilation. Thanks for sharing.