Keefer Madness

Playing Around With Tilt Shift Photography

// August 1st, 2009 // General Posts

So Amanda and I have been lying here reading up on tilt-shift photography. I’ve seen several articles on it, and lots of examples. I still to this day, do not fully understand how it really works, but love the miniaturization effect it creates, the selective focus and the shallow depth of field it can create in certain photographs.

Now, from what I understand, it takes some very specialized and expensive lenses to actually take legitimate tilt shift photography, but I found a really cool little web app and/or an Adobe Air application that can be utilized to fake the effect and really add some artistic flair and real interest to a given photo. It’s called TiltShift Generator and is simultaneously a great tool to use on select photos, and can also be a fun little time waster.

Scattered through this post are a couple examples we whipped up this evening, taking existing photos from our Flickr photo sets. Like I said, it works better on some photos than others. Photos taken from further away seem to take on the miniaturization effect better. I can see the effect being overused, but can also make a photo that would just be tucked away in your iPhoto a candidate to be printed out and framed.