Tilt-Shift Photography

Tilt-Shift 1

 Tilt-Shift 2

Tilt-Shift 3

Response

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"