tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post2987779089873630746..comments2024-03-04T04:08:39.755-08:00Comments on The Fies Files: Miniature FakeryBrian Fieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-33097387793531835232010-01-30T14:19:25.275-08:002010-01-30T14:19:25.275-08:00Show us more!
Done!<i>Show us more!</i><br /><br /><a href="http://sherwords.blogspot.com/2010/01/tilting-with-brian.html" rel="nofollow">Done!</a>Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-19432619821732196672010-01-29T07:50:04.578-08:002010-01-29T07:50:04.578-08:00That's terrific! It's an amazingly convinc...That's terrific! It's an amazingly convincing effect, isn't it? A baseball game is a perfect tilt-shift subject--as you said, the higher in the stands the better, because you'd get more difference between foreground and background, and it would better duplicate the POV of a person peering down on a table-top model. <br /><br />I knew about the Flicker groups, found some of them back in 2006 ("you darn kids, why when I first did tilt-shift way back in the autumn of ought-six . . .). And here's a link to work by Olivo Barbieri, one of the first I know of to take tilt-shift and run with it:<br /><br />http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20060116/model-world<br /><br />Show us more! You may have inspired me to waste a day digging through my photo archives and making some new ones myself. Don't tell Karen.<br /><br />If anyone else wants to give it a shot, there are some good tutorials online. Just google. One I found at www.photographyjam.com was very helpful.Brian Fieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16347700145666751363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1568334561722760329.post-51758071054930013742010-01-29T00:28:37.208-08:002010-01-29T00:28:37.208-08:00Oh, THANKS, Brian! Just what I need on a work nig...Oh, THANKS, Brian! Just what I need on a work night: an irresistible new toy for Photoshop!<br /><br />Your tilt-shifted images are, predictably, fascinating, but (selfishly) what they've done for me is to kick me in the butt to try my hand at the form. A lot of my spare time recently has been spent on Flickr, and I can't escape an ongoing fascination of some of my favorite photographers with the tilt-shift, faux-mini thing.<br /><br />Believe it or not, a search within Flickr for tilt-shift images produces <a href="http://www.flickr.com/search/groups/?w=all&q=tilt+shift" rel="nofollow">more than 300 groups devoted to it!</a><br /><br />I don't have very many images that lend themselves to faux-minis, but I do have a few of baseball games, which are prime candidates -- especially if one is of the economic class that sits in the "cheap seats" well above field level.<br /><br />So I looked back through the archives, and found the game recounted in <a href="http://sherwords.blogspot.com/2007/07/take-me-out-to.html" rel="nofollow">this entry in "SherWords"</a>: a family outing to the Oakland Coliseum for a game between the A's and the Seattle Mariners, where we sat in the second deck, about 20 feet above field level, minimally appropriate for Photoshopping a faux-mini, shift-tilt thingie.<br /><br /><a href="http://sharrington.net/TiltShift2.jpg" rel="nofollow">Here's my first attempt at a tilt-shift</a> from that outing. It could be tweaked a lot, and I will do that, but I wanted to link it in thanks to you for giving me the impetus to try the thing.<br /><br />Just what I need on a work night.<br /><br />But thanks anyway.Sherwood Harringtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09575868746160608731noreply@blogger.com