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Driving back from Brisvegas, we spent 5 relaxing days in Coffs.

Here are some images for which I would appreciate some C&C. As you can see, I have been trialling some PP effects as well.

1. Selective blur



2. First attempt at HDR



3. Coffs Jetty from Mutton Bird lookout



4. A 14 shot pano from atop Mutton Bird lookout (click for larger image)

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Photos of Alex to come (cause I just know everyone loves baby photos )

Patrick,

Absolutely love the first one! It has a "train set" kind of feel, I think they call this miniaturisation effect "tilt-shift" photography. Was this the effect you were trying to achieve? Would really appreciate if you could share a bit about how you processed this.

Very well done on the others too, thanks for sharing.

Cheers

garyr wrote:Absolutely love the first one! It has a "train set" kind of feel, I think they call this miniaturisation effect "tilt-shift" photography. Was this the effect you were trying to achieve? Would really appreciate if you could share a bit about how you processed this.

Thanks Gary

That is exactly the effect I was aiming for (I did rush this one). I think these shots are best done when the light is more side on.

Basically, my process was:

1. Increase brightness of image.
2. Increase saturation
3. (In this case) I used channel mixer (red -50, green +200, blue -50) to get the yellow/orange colour in the foliage to warm it up a little.
4. Applied a gaussian blur.
5. Using the history palette, I clicked on the last step before the gaussian blur, but selected the gaussian blur action.
6. I then used the history brush to pain the blur on the outer the areas I wanted to soften.

I like this effect and want to refine my process.

THanks for the comments.

here's a link u may be interested in about "fake" tilt-shift
ive been meaning to try this for a long time now
http://images.google.com.au/imgres?imgurl=http://www.photographyjam.com/images/41.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.photographyjam.com/articles/52/the-tilt-shift-miniature-fake-technique-in-photoshop-cs-a-simple-how-to%3Fpg%3D2&h=333&w=500&sz=63&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=Tt5Zeitm6evWKM:&tbnh=87&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmodel%2Btrains%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D30%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DX

Great tute - thanks for posting it.

A very simple process - I applied it to this one for a bit of fun.

!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~! wrote:here's a link u may be interested in about "fake" tilt-shift

Great link thanks!