Tilt Shift.

Posting those photos of the abbey reminded me of some work I did a year ago about Tilt Shift Photography. The long and short of Tilt Shift is the illusion of making big scenic photographs look more like a model play set.

There was a lot of experimenting involved and I thought I'd post some of the photos and talk

about them.

Obviously there are two ways of making a tilt shift photo, one is having the actually lens second

is post processing which is the route I took.

So these were the first two I decided to edit from my first set of photos and to be honest I think they came out really well, especially the second, I think they all look like toy cars. another thing to make your tilt shift photos really come alive is a large amount of contrast and saturation. The way you post process the photos is switching to quick mask mode then using the gradient tool to get your selection of what you want to be the main point of focus, exit and the put a lens blur on selected area, obviously be sure to tweak until you see what looks right.

These two photos are from my second set of tilt shift shots, after looking around for some high vantage points in bath, i managed to get into a great place for Great Pulteney Street. and in my opinion Tilt Shift photos come out a million times better when taken from above. the second photo is my favourite because the little lady and cars just ended up looking just like toy models.

Now this last one was just an experiment, while researching tilt shift I'd noticed that there was not one Tilt Shift photo taking with a fisheye lens, so considering I had one to use I thought I thought I would go around and test. This is Great Pulteney Street from ground level, and in my opinion the post precessing did work. it just doesnt capture the right feel because a fisheye distorts the photo already then adding more distortion like Tilt Shift makes it just too much.