Tilt-Shift (Miniature Fakes)You have TWO CLASSES to complete this project.
1) INTRO TO TILT-SHIFT (with examples)
2) TUTORIAL & PRACTICE IMAGE
3) ASSIGNMENT
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1) INTRO TO TILT-SHIFT
Today's project is technically called "Miniature Faking," and is a simpler tribute to Tilt-shift photography, an art that involves special lenses (tilt-shift lenses) that can exact extremely precise control over depth of field.
Miniature faking involves taking a photograph of a life-size location or scene and using Photoshop (specifically, a combination of mask, gradient, lens blur filter, and saturation) to make it look like a miniature toy scene. The steps are surpisingly quick and simple if you've taken your photograph with care!
EXAMPLES:
1) INTRO TO TILT-SHIFT (with examples)
2) TUTORIAL & PRACTICE IMAGE
3) ASSIGNMENT
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1) INTRO TO TILT-SHIFT
Today's project is technically called "Miniature Faking," and is a simpler tribute to Tilt-shift photography, an art that involves special lenses (tilt-shift lenses) that can exact extremely precise control over depth of field.
Miniature faking involves taking a photograph of a life-size location or scene and using Photoshop (specifically, a combination of mask, gradient, lens blur filter, and saturation) to make it look like a miniature toy scene. The steps are surpisingly quick and simple if you've taken your photograph with care!
EXAMPLES:
Source:
http://freehddesktopwallpaper.info/photography-tilt-shift-wallpaper-31.html#.VQhgLI7F-So
http://cdn.idesignow.com/public_html/img/2011/11/fake-tilt-shift-photo-19.jpg
http://smashingtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/baseball-miniature-Tilt-shift-photography2.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2369493661_4918bac51d_o.jpg
http://freehddesktopwallpaper.info/photography-tilt-shift-wallpaper-31.html#.VQhgLI7F-So
http://cdn.idesignow.com/public_html/img/2011/11/fake-tilt-shift-photo-19.jpg
http://smashingtips.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/baseball-miniature-Tilt-shift-photography2.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2380/2369493661_4918bac51d_o.jpg
Many more cool examples can be found here:
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/tilt-shift-photo-gallery.php
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2) TUTORIAL
http://tiltshiftmaker.com/tilt-shift-photo-gallery.php
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2) TUTORIAL
Simple summary:
1) Duplicate your background layer (Ctrl-J)
2) Increase the saturation of your image (add a Vibrance / Saturation adjustment layer)
3) Select your background copy layer, right-click, select Convert to Smart Object
4) Go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift
5) Adjust the parameters of where the blur filter will take effect
6) Adjust the Blur slider to taste and hit OK when finished
7) Because this filter was applied to a Smart Object, it is a Smart Filter and can easily be edited in the Layers tab.
PRACTICE IMAGE
>>> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FULL-SIZE VERSION OF THE IMAGE BELOW! <<<
1) Duplicate your background layer (Ctrl-J)
2) Increase the saturation of your image (add a Vibrance / Saturation adjustment layer)
3) Select your background copy layer, right-click, select Convert to Smart Object
4) Go to Filter > Blur Gallery > Tilt-Shift
5) Adjust the parameters of where the blur filter will take effect
6) Adjust the Blur slider to taste and hit OK when finished
7) Because this filter was applied to a Smart Object, it is a Smart Filter and can easily be edited in the Layers tab.
PRACTICE IMAGE
>>> CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A FULL-SIZE VERSION OF THE IMAGE BELOW! <<<
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3) ASSIGNMENT
Tilt-Shift (Miniature Fake) Assignment
Your job is to reproduce the tilt-shift effect in a photograph that you take. Try it with a few photos and hand your best TWO before/after sets.
TIPS:
- Tilt-shift photographs, as you may notice, are taken from above, aiming downwards. Thus you need to be somewhere high shooting somewhere lower. There are limited spots in the school that match this criteria, but two possibilities might be the second floor window above the Cartier gym (shooting down at the gym floor) or in the LSL gym stage looking down onto the floor.
- Remember that a relatively narrow horizonal band will be in focus (once you Photoshop it) but the rest will be blurry. Consider that when composing and framing your shot.
HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOP TO CREATE THE TILT-SHIFT EFFECT:
Watch the short tutorial video above if you missed the in-class demo.
HAND IN before and after versions of both images (four files total). Please put these in a Drive folder and ADD the link to Classroom.
STUDENT EXAMPLES
3) ASSIGNMENT
Tilt-Shift (Miniature Fake) Assignment
Your job is to reproduce the tilt-shift effect in a photograph that you take. Try it with a few photos and hand your best TWO before/after sets.
TIPS:
- Tilt-shift photographs, as you may notice, are taken from above, aiming downwards. Thus you need to be somewhere high shooting somewhere lower. There are limited spots in the school that match this criteria, but two possibilities might be the second floor window above the Cartier gym (shooting down at the gym floor) or in the LSL gym stage looking down onto the floor.
- Remember that a relatively narrow horizonal band will be in focus (once you Photoshop it) but the rest will be blurry. Consider that when composing and framing your shot.
HOW TO USE PHOTOSHOP TO CREATE THE TILT-SHIFT EFFECT:
Watch the short tutorial video above if you missed the in-class demo.
HAND IN before and after versions of both images (four files total). Please put these in a Drive folder and ADD the link to Classroom.
STUDENT EXAMPLES
This image has nice colours and composition, but the tilt-shift filter is not a great fit with the angle at which this image was taken. The bushes at the right (which are at a much greater depth than the subject) are in equal focus with the subject, which is inconsistent with what shallow depth of field would really look like.
This image, while not particularly scenic, is a better fit for the tilt-shift filter, mainly because of the height of the camera relative to the scene. Everything that's in focus is here is of more similar depth.