This one works REALLY well for me, and it's one of the largest-scale photos I've done this with. The view distance to horizon here is several miles, and a human being standing atop one of the ridges in the focus area would barely be visible, if at all.
This came out good, from a stock photo.
Another stock source that works REALLY well due to the scale of the subject.
Probably one of the images I'm happiest with. You'd swear it was papier-mâché
My first attempt at TS faking.
A second attempt at the TS effect. This time I masked out the two phone poles...which seems to have resulted in it looking MORE, not less, "photoshopped." Let me know what you think in the comments :)
Tilt-shift effect to an image that already had one. (Image without effect applied at http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/raWiyL4vBlv3Y9ogs4fUCg?feat=directlink - original caption follows.) This is a kind of neat poto because the blurring of the foreground due to movement creates a sort of natural fake tilt-shift effect. This is one of the photos that start of re-started my obsession with T/S. Still outside of Mill City, NV here.
I thought that this would make an excellent subject for TS. Let me know what you think, I might do a bunch of these and release them as desktop wallpaper or something.
I really like the way this one came out. Elko, NV
I'm beginning to notice certain things about how to best compose the source images for tilt-shifting. One of them is that single-subject foci are rarely adequate, because they lack the necessary depth to create the desired illusion.
I haven't decided whether I think this works or not. Focus area may be to narrow, or the angle of view versus "flat ground" may be too narrow.
This one worked out neat
I think the monochroming here enhances the effect. What do you think?
This worked out really nicely, I think. The parking lot area seems to be impossibly tiny.
Another shot that I believe worked very nicely.
This either totally works or totally doesn't, but I can't decide which.
I think this one works particularly well because the eye boggles in reality anyway at the scale of these windmills and how close they are to the ground, so the illusion just makes it that much more surreal.
The windmills again, and the barrels too.
Another that I think turned out well...it seems that the best results come from images composed to clearly have a foreground, focus, and background.
Another example of how a busy composition can enhance the TS effect. I've noticed here and in other photos that the orange construction barrels really seem to do something. That little sprig of broccoli...er, that tree on the left came out particularly well, I think.
Another one that came out really well
Thihs, on the other hand, works exceptionally well, especialy the median wall on the left.
The more I look at this the more I think it's not working at all.
I could stand to play with this one again...unfortunately the eye is drawn to the clump of trees in the center as a focus, but the lens focus is actually lower, where the little service road comes in to the highway. It doesn't totally compromise the effect, but it isn't as good as it could be.
This is a photo of Ouray, Colorado taken from the Library of Congress archives, and to which a tilt-shift has been applied (along with a few other effects) LC-DIG-fsac-1a34172
You knew I had to try this. Pretty cool that it works.
Tilt-Shift applied to photo from I-25 north of Denver, CO looking westward
My friends in (or from) Kalamazoo will recognize this: the KRPH water tower, as seen from the 10th floor of Sprau tower, with a tilt-shift applied to the trees in the lower-center area of the photo.
