Tilt Shift Christmas Dinner

[manateemedia]

My first attempt at tilt shift using this tutorial:

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Would love to see tilt shift as a contest on the blog! Maybe if we make enough noise?

Here is the unedited version:

[Nicole]

Originally Posted by manateemedia

Would love to see tilt shift as a contest on the blog! Maybe if we make enough noise?

Ya know, it doesn't take much noise. We do watch for assignment suggestions in the threads, and also in the Suggest an Assignment thread.

[jiminyClickit]

manateemedia,

Old dog here, never averse to new ways of seeing: please in your own words describe what you believe has become better in your blurred edit? Serious inquiry, no hidden meaning or joke, it looks like a ruined photo to me, and I'd really like to know what you see there?

[bahgheera]

Tilt sfift photography is meant to make the scene look like it was built in miniature. There are special lenses for it, it can also be done in photoshop CS. I think it succeeded pretty well here.

Jiminy, look it up on flickr, some of the shots there look so much like tiny diaramas its really hard to believe its real.

Laters...

[jiminyClickit]

I make tiny food out of Sculpey modeling material, and this does not resemble anything I would think was a small scale diorama. It (tilt/shift) has been used here in the past, and it looked like a blurred scene then, too. I was sure it must hold a charm all its own. To each his/her own.

[manateemedia]

Originally Posted by Nicole

Ya know, it doesn't take much noise. We do watch for assignment suggestions in the threads, and also in the Suggest an Assignment thread.

I think I may do just that...

[manateemedia]

Originally Posted by jiminyClickit

manateemedia,

Old dog here, never averse to new ways of seeing: please in your own words describe what you believe has become better in your blurred edit? Serious inquiry, no hidden meaning or joke, it looks like a ruined photo to me, and I'd really like to know what you see there?

heh heh... I can't speak for my photo, but there are some pretty cool ones out there that look like miniature scenes, etc. Many are very hard to tell if they are real or not... check em' out

http://flickr.com/search/?q=tilt+shift&s=int

[brbeall3]

I agree with JiminyClickIt - I don't see the glory of the edit. Can you focus on one portion of the table as the focal point? At this point, the middle of the foreground candle is the focal point.

[annie]

Also it seems like a shame to have all that nice food blurred out, but that's just me--always thinking with my stomach.

[Mr. Clipit]

I think that the effect could be better achieved with a little less blurring, but i think it still works.