Comments on: Tilt-Shift Photography http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:01:21 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Tobias http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-633123 Tobias Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:17:40 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/#comment-633123 I would hazard that both of these photographs are produced using the photoshop blur / masking technique. They both contain impossible blurring of objects that share the same depth as objects in focus. In the first picture notice the horizontal signs to the very centre-left; they're blurred, yet they are clearly in line with the bus which is perfectly in focus. Notice how the same signs are more blurred towards the top than the bottom, how is this possible? Furthermore, there are no objects in the photo that are minutely out of focus, everything simply becomes heavily out of focus. In the second picture, notice the road to the bottom right, it appears perfectly in focus right to the bottom of the picture. Yet, how is this possible when the row of flats, to the left which are at the same distance appear totally blurred? I would hazard that both of these photographs are produced using the photoshop blur / masking technique. They both contain impossible blurring of objects that share the same depth as objects in focus.
In the first picture notice the horizontal signs to the very centre-left; they’re blurred, yet they are clearly in line with the bus which is perfectly in focus. Notice how the same signs are more blurred towards the top than the bottom, how is this possible? Furthermore, there are no objects in the photo that are minutely out of focus, everything simply becomes heavily out of focus.

In the second picture, notice the road to the bottom right, it appears perfectly in focus right to the bottom of the picture. Yet, how is this possible when the row of flats, to the left which are at the same distance appear totally blurred?

]]> By: Tanja http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-633038 Tanja Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:05:13 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/#comment-633038 Funny you should post this today -- I happened to be watching Masterpiece: Contemporary's interesting presentation of "Filth" on PBS last night and I thought that it seemed that they were using this as part of their filming technique in the show (at least in the beginning) to emphasize Mrs. Whitehouse's small town view of her happy, idealistic little world which then hit up against the BBC's attempt to provide a broader modern view with shows of the "swinging sixties" London to their audiences. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/filth/index.html Funny you should post this today — I happened to be watching Masterpiece: Contemporary’s interesting presentation of “Filth” on PBS last night and I thought that it seemed that they were using this as part of their filming technique in the show (at least in the beginning) to emphasize Mrs. Whitehouse’s small town view of her happy, idealistic little world which then hit up against the BBC’s attempt to provide a broader modern view with shows of the “swinging sixties” London to their audiences.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/filth/index.html

]]> By: Charley Parker http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-632885 Charley Parker Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:30:01 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/#comment-632885 Thanks, Dan. Yes, this can be done with creative masking and blurring, though I think it can be less dramatic than the effect of actual depth of field limits unless you take a lot of trouble in the areas were the blurred and unblurred areas meet. Thanks, Dan. Yes, this can be done with creative masking and blurring, though I think it can be less dramatic than the effect of actual depth of field limits unless you take a lot of trouble in the areas were the blurred and unblurred areas meet.

]]> By: Daniel van Benthuysen http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/comment-page-1/#comment-632874 Daniel van Benthuysen Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:26:06 +0000 http://www.linesandcolors.com/2008/11/17/tilt-shift-photography/#comment-632874 The same effect can be obtained for almost any photograph using the Gaussian Blur function in Photoshop. The blur should be applied to the near-foreground and far-background to create the tilt-shift effect. The same effect can be obtained for almost any photograph using the Gaussian Blur function in Photoshop. The blur should be applied to the near-foreground and far-background to create the tilt-shift effect.

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