Tilt-Shift 1
Tilt-Shift 2
Tilt-Shift 3
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Tilt-shift is the style of photography that blurs certain factors of the photo while keeping the subject in focus, this gives the illusion of a "miniature world". Professionally, tilt-shift photography is done with tilt-shift lenses, but here we gave the tilt-shift effect in post-production.
In class we took the photos at a higher angle giving the effect of being above the whole scene. Then, we took the photos into Photoshop and Processed it there. In Photoshop we did the following
- Imported the photo into the program
- Unlocked the layer that the photo is in
- Adjust the Levels of the photo so that the colours and exposure gives a more toy/fake look
- Enter the Quick Mask Mode (Shift+Q)
- Use the Gradient tool (G) - Make sure you're using a reflected gradient
- Click and drag to make a mask of what you don't want blurred out
- Exit Quick Mask Mode (Shift+Q)
- Under the Filter tab (found in the top Menu Bar), find Blur and choose a blur effect
- Adjust it the effect so that it gives a realistic blur and then apply it by hitting "OK"
