Landscape "miniturisation" (new images)

[robert]

I like the tilt/shift effect which makes images look like models so thought I'd try a PS version myself. I dont have any busy streets/people shots so tried this out. Just basically gaussian blur foreground and background. This is the first one i tried and it took 2 minutes- what do you think? Click for larger- you can see the effect more clearly.

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Doesnt look as good printed (A3) as it does on screen but good for a bit of fun!
Robert

[Big V]

You certainly have achieved the result you set out to do - well done

[Manta]

Love it Robert - good work! Simple but very effective. Haven't seen this done before on a landscape and it really works. I wouldn't worry too much about not having city streets or people to try it on, not when you've got views like this!

[aim54x]

Looks really good!!

[!~DeViNe~DaRkNeSs~!]

Bloody Excellent...
Always wanted to try it...
need a good pic with a high view me thinks?

[biggerry]

Its a good choice of an image - the unedited one has a strange scale about it anyway - the blurring effect compliments this i reckon...well done.

I think you also need a few lego men clones in there - that would be the icing on teh cake.

This shot reminds me of Suren's one some time ago with the soccer players which also worked quite well...

[Big Red]

did you graduate the gaussian blur? how did you do it, what settings etc ?

looks cool

[Ladybird]

That is really really cool!

It's amazing how 'a little blur' completely changes the visual interpretation of the image.

Thanks for sharing!

[robert]

did you graduate the gaussian blur? how did you do it, what settings etc ?

looks cool

I'm sure you could get more sophisticated but I just basically selected the foreground, feathered to 150 (gives a slight graduation), and then gaussian blur- not sure of strength but not overly strong. Then same with background. No graduations, not more than two areas of blur- pretty simple.

Here are a few others I tried- though I dont think they worked as well as the first one I did.

I think there are two key things to remember- have a high vantage and some point of focus. I think you need to click to see the effect.









Robert

[muzz]

There is a little tutorial here, with some links to other resources. It's certainly a fun thing to try:

http://martybugs.net/blog/blog.cgi/phot ... orial.html

[Big Red]

will have to find some time to have a play ... thanks guys

[Willy wombat]

I like this effect. I wonder how it looks when there is a person involved?

[zafra52]

Number 2 and 5 (with the palm trees) work for me.
But, as mentioned before, this effect works better
with people in the distance or animals.

[Alpha_7]

These have worked really well, its funny that I'd always expected this process to work best with people in it to give a snense of scale, but you really don't need them to still get the sense of miniturisation. The first one and the last are my favourites of this bunch.