ON TILT

I saw this on boingboing.net. It's about tilt-shift photography: a technique by which real people and landscapes are made to look like toy models. Apparently, to do this for real, it takes a fair amount of cost and effort, but this tutorial shows you how to fake it in Photoshop CS. I tried playing around and so far, I've found it fascinating. Here's my best result thus far:

THE OG:


TILT-SHIFTED


There's a flickr group for fake tilt-shifts. Some amazing stuff there, especially when you compare the results to real tilt-shifted photos created through lens or camera effects.

--O.W.