Thursday, 20 January 2011

Day 45

Iain, bless him, keeps downloading funky new iPhone photo apps for me to play with.  This shot was taken with an app called Camera+. In this app, unlike Hipstamatic and Camtastic, you add the processing after you've taken the shot, so you can experiment with different effects. However, for this particular shot of our neighbours' wool shed I had the effect I wanted in mind before I took it.

The 'tilt shift' effect adjusts the depth of field so that the subject looks like a model. Click here for some cool examples of tilt shift photos. Tilt shift works best if you take the shot from above the subject, and if the subject is in the centre vertically. I decided to take the shot at midday (usually the worst time for taking landscape shots), so that the light would be coming from above, as it would if this really were a model.


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4 comments:

  1. Val20 January 2011 at 9:54 pm

    Very interesting effect, Helen - those trees almost look real !! ;-)

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  2. Anonymous20 January 2011 at 10:09 pm

    You're right, Val! I think the fences, gates and power poles look the most 'miniaturised'.

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  3. Anonymous21 January 2011 at 12:05 pm

    I AM SO JEALOUS! I have wanted a tilt-shift lens for a long time. Now all I need is an Iphone. Have fun paying with this effect!

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  4. Anonymous21 January 2011 at 12:22 pm

    A tilt-shift lens would produce much better results, but I don't think I'll ever buy one. I wouldn't mind tracking down a digital filter I can use to miniaturise images from my Canon, though. I might even have a go at applying the effect in Photoshop manually.

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