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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

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

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!

Looks really good!!

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

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...

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

looks cool

That is really really cool!

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

Thanks for sharing!

Big Red wrote: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

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

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

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

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.

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.