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Trying my hand at Tilt-shift photography with the iPhone

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 07:41 PM

The iPhone has great little app (Tilt shift generator) for Tilt-shift photography, and I thought I'd give it a try

http://tinyurl.com/ooq5zm

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 08:32 PM

Some of those look really good Genshin. Others aren't quite so convincing. I love the concept of tiltshift. How much was the app? Have you got a link to it?

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Posted 13 September 2009 - 08:51 PM

QUOTE (Davo @ Sep 13 2009, 07:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Some of those look really good Genshin. Others aren't quite so convincing. I love the concept of tiltshift. How much was the app? Have you got a link to it?

Thank you. Yes, I have yet to get the hang of it. Some subjects are easy, others a little harder.

Here's the one I'm using - http://artandmobile.com/tiltshift/

There is an online app and a desk top app for your Mac which requires Adobe Air, I've not tried them though.

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 01:52 PM

I love the way those pics remind me of my HO railway modelling days.

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Posted 14 September 2009 - 09:37 PM

QUOTE (Genshin @ Sep 13 2009, 08:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Here's the one I'm using - http://artandmobile.com/tiltshift/

What I like about this is it's got an Air app you can try out first. Just to make your head that little bit bigger Genshin, I think a lot of your pictures are a lot better than the samples on the site.

I need to find some time to try this out.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 12:01 AM

QUOTE (Genshin @ Sep 13 2009, 07:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The iPhone has great little app (Tilt shift generator) for Tilt-shift photography, and I thought I'd give it a try

http://tinyurl.com/ooq5zm

Genshin isn't it a great little app. I downloaded it the other day and fell instantly in love. I need to take some more bird's eye view pictures for it to work better but here's a couple I had a go at.

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I also came across this awesome site a few months ago which I believe is Tilt-shift video.
http://www.vimeo.com/1785993

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 12:32 AM

QUOTE (Davo @ Sep 14 2009, 08:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thank you indeed.

*Head hasn't grown*

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Genshin isn't it a great little app. I downloaded it the other day and fell instantly in love. I need to take some more bird's eye view pictures for it to work better but here's a couple I had a go at.

I also came across this awesome site a few months ago which I believe is Tilt-shift video.
http://www.vimeo.com/1785993

Wow, they are great! Please, do share some more!

These are my favourites.

And some tilt-shift stop motion video here by MockMoon who is famous in Japan for this.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 12:45 AM

QUOTE (Genshin @ Sep 15 2009, 12:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Wow, they are great! Please, do share some more!

Those videos are great. If anyone wants to try this optically on a SLR (rather than post processing an image) check out http://www.lensbaby.com/

I believe that is what was used for these videos - shooting time lapse with a D-SLR - its an amazing result.

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I' ve tried a lensbaby. Good fun.

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 09:40 PM

I've discovered almost straight away with this, you need the right kind of picture, looking down on something, with nothing in the foreground to spoil the illusion.

As time allows, I'll have a bit more of a play. I haven't been using the iPhone version, but the AIR version.

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Posted 16 September 2009 - 11:19 PM

QUOTE (Davo @ Sep 16 2009, 08:40 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've discovered almost straight away with this, you need the right kind of picture, looking down on something, with nothing in the foreground to spoil the illusion.

Yes, agreed. It doesn't work too well if your subject is too close or at eye level - that's the whole illusion, to look as though it were a miniature viewed from above.

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 07:28 AM

The effect was used in a TV ad I saw last night. Don't remember what the ad was for 'cos I was focussed on the photographic effect. I think it was for a bank.

And yes, if you use it on a close-up subject, it's just a selective-focus effect and loses the whole miniature world feel. That has a place in the scheme of things, though, and the result is not unlike the very-shallow depth-of-field style popular in contemporary culinary photography.

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 07:33 AM

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if you use it on a close-up subject, it's just a selective-focus effect and loses the whole miniature world feel. That has a place in the scheme of things, though, and the result is not unlike the very-shallow depth-of-field style popular in contemporary culinary photography.

The lensbaby gallery had some good examples of other applications selective focus can be used for. Some of them were quite interesting.

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 08:36 AM

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I saw the ad too. It was for rediATM. Is tilt shift an old technique that has become popular or just something relatively new?

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 08:42 AM

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I saw the ad too. It was for rediATM. Is tilt shift an old technique that has become popular or just something relatively new?

Movements have been available on view cameras since the early days of photography. Nikon introduced a lens providing shift movements for their 35 mm SLR cameras in the mid 1960s. - Wikipedia.

Tilt-shift has seen a surge in popularity since early last year. There are classes at Nikon on tilt-shift methods.