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nice article

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

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

Nice post otherwise!

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

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.

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.

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

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

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: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

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

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

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.

Nice post!!!!!!! Great!

Nice article. This is a very curious effect.

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… incredible great job!

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:
Tilt&Shift Group on Flickr

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.

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!

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

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

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.

Another example

Somebody needs to get some shots like this at Legoland!

Great collection! This is really some fun inspiration.

I noticed that you used my Fenway Park tilt-shift 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.

“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 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

“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

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

Some pretty amazing images, something new to try!

I like it ))

thanks

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.

simply,,,,, amazing

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

Nice photographys! This is a very curious effect.

Here is my first attempt at emulated tilt-shift. I am pretty pleased with the result. It is from Liseberg, a theme park in Sweden.

Liseberg i miniatyr

Another example of Tilt Shift combined with time lapse, like the Bathtub videos…

Tilt-shift photography uses very specific position/angle-shifting lenses, these use photoshop. Big difference. They are rad, i love them, but they aren’t tilt-shift. In fact, i believe they only simulate tilting, while shifting involves geometric perspective, not depth of field. Can we call them “fake tilt-shifts” at least, or simulated miniatures or smallgantics or whatever. How about “microshopped” or “puny-fied”? I just feel bad for all of the photographers out there who spent many thousands of dollars out there on the real deal. ;)

AOTA are marvelous just a query are all of this using the tilt shift lens?

Who cares what Ansel Adams would think? Last time I checked, Ansel was dead. If you don’t like fake tilt-shift photos, or real tilt shift photos, or if you are a member of that stuck-up, cranky, stick-in-the-mud generation that demands only “crisp and in-focus images” then why are you seeking out these images in the first place? And who are you to say that ALL photographs must be composed and executed just like a bunch of dead photographers? The point is, nobody asked you.

Ansel Adams didn’t have Photoshop, and we can only speculate as to how he would feel about things like fake tilt-shift, but why would that even matter in the first place? Yes it is gimmicky, and yes, it is done with software and not a real tilt-shift lens. But again, who cares? If it brings pleasure to a lot of people, and doesn’t harm anyone, there really is no valid reason for you to dump all over other people’s art. The people who like this kind of thing won’t care, and the killjoys who agree with you are a bunch of uptight pantloads anyway. Remember this: your objections and criticism are nothing more than your opinion, and my opinion is your opinion sucks.

So, thanks for letting the world know what you don’t care for. Now you are free to roam the web enjoying a very narrow range of rigidly-defined art by dead masters while raining on everyone’s parade.