Faux Tilt Shift Attempt

as a tilt shift it doesn't really work. subject is to far away and taken from the wrong angle ( tilt shift works better from high up shooting down ) so there's nothing in foreground or behind to give the appearance of tilt shift or scale so the houses dont really look miniaturized
 
A more appropriate subject would help. You need detail running from front to back of the frame, with a clear progression away from the camera so that the out of focus effect will show up. Here you have a blank sky that cannot be blurred progressively, and that makes the effect fail.

Just my opinion, but I think the tilt-shift miniaturisation effect requires very sparing use. I may have once, ever, in my whole life, seen a picture where it was used beneficially.
 
dean messenger said:
as a tilt shift it doesn't really work. subject is to far away and taken from the wrong angle ( tilt shift works better from high up shooting down )
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ancient_mariner said:
A more appropriate subject would help. You need detail running from front to back of the frame, with a clear progression away from the camera so that the out of focus effect will show up. Here you have a blank sky that cannot be blurred progressively, and that makes the effect fail.
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Thanks for the feedback. Can see what your both saying! Will have another go!
It's not something I want to do all the time, just wanted to have a go at it in LR!!
 
tried myself on a couple of shots in the past.. not quite the right angle but was fun to try.

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not quite successful but may try again if i can get right location, angle and subject
 
dean messenger said:
tried myself on a couple of shots in the past.. not quite the right angle but was fun to try.
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They look good. Can see how it works with having the frame filled (not with sky like mine lol)

tracybradbury said:
I've tried once using the in camera app on my Fuji XT1 - might have to play again, here is my first attempt :)
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Looks good.

I used a GoPro on a Phantom quadcopter! Gonna have to send it up higher next time!!
 
I really like these (y) Can anyone recommend a free TS prog I could download, or if not, a site I could upload a picture to?

I tried one a couple of years ago but wasn't impressed so uninstalled it, but I think things have moved on.

I know someone who gets amazing results on her iPhone, but I want to do it on my PC and possibly tie it in with other editing tools.
 
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d00d said:
I really like these (y) Can anyone recommend a free TS prog I could download, or upload a picture to?

I tried one a couple of years ago but wasn't impressed so uninstalled it, but I think things have moved on.

I know someone who gets amazing results on her iPhone, but I want to do it on my PC and possibly tie it in with other editing tools.
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Afraid I can't help with free as I used Lightroom to do mine. Sure someone will know of a free one though.
 
d00d said:
I really like these (y) Can anyone recommend a free TS prog I could download, or if not, a site I could upload a picture to?

I tried one a couple of years ago but wasn't impressed so uninstalled it, but I think things have moved on.

I know someone who gets amazing results on her iPhone, but I want to do it on my PC and possibly tie it in with other editing tools.
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TS is built into cs5 and above ( i think 5 anyway i know its in 6 and cc ) its under FILTER , then blur
 
Thanks guys ... I don't use/have photoshop but Paint.Net is pretty much the same so I can do it "manually" following more-or-less what the guy said in the video.

For some reason I thought there was more to TS than blurring some parts and sharpening/colour-boosting others ... but no, it's as simple as that!

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You should be able to do it Paint.net, if it has a manual selection tool, feather selection and guassian blur.
 
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