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Tilt-Shifting Fun

Telegraph Hill Tilt Shift by cogdogblog posted 19 Oct ’08, 12.10am MDT PST on flickr Inspired by a link from kotke to the Fenway Park "Model", I experimented with the Fake Model method. Essentially it is a PhotoShop play of careful gradient selection and lens blur to create effects that convert real photos to images that look like miniature models or train set models. This one is from my original photo taken near the top of Telegraph Hill in San Francisco I was more curious to see how hard it was to create one of these- the lens blur filter in PhotoShop gives the short depth of field that a macro lens would make on a real model, and some toying with color curves is supposed to make it pop more like a plastic model. Again, according to the site with the instructions: With a very little effort, you can [...]

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