A picture a day every day

Tilt-Shift photography is when you take a wide shot and make it appear as if everything is miniaturized. Objects, people, and structures look like they’re some sort of plastic model, all shrunken down from real life. Tilt-Shift is becoming pretty popular lately, but it takes some super expensive specialty lenses to pull it off…unless you know how to fake it. After looking up some tutorials, I decided to fake my own tilt-shift images. I learned how to make it happen, but my version of Photoshop is an older one and I don’t have all the necessary tools, so I did my best. Here’s what I managed to do with the resources I had.

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I have more examples and will be adding more over time over at my flickr page. You can check that out here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jar155/

February was a short month, but on several days I had to scramble to keep up with the daily demands to get a picture taking. With warmer weather expected this month, I can’t wait to get some more outdoor shots, even if there’s not a lot of green out there. I feel like I’m getting a better hang of things, and I’m going to play around a bit more with some long exposure shots and nightime shooting. As always, new pictures will be added throughout the month, with at least one image per day represented. Some days will have more than one picture posted. Remember, new posts on the blog appear after this one and you can view past months using the links below.

Past Months (click month to view post):

January 2009

February 2009