Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
Have you noticed this photography style called “Tilt-Shift” showing up everywhere? The beautiful example above was shot by Keith Loutit in Tamarama Beach, Sydney (shot with a series of tilt-shift lenses and an HD camera). I can’t take my eyes away from it. It doesn’t even look real.
I am a hobbyist photographer and a 14 year photoshop veteran, so I’m excited to take part in creating some of this mesmerizing imagery. There are a couple of ways to achieve the effect. One way is to actually own the necessary lens’s and camera, and learn how to adjust the settings. The other is to fake it in photoshop or some other image editing software. Either way, the end result gives you an effect that is similar to how an HO scale model train set looks to most of us in real life. This is because when the human eye focuses on a tiny object the natural depth of field that the eye picks up is very shallow. Here’s a brief definition of tilt-shift photography from Wikipedia.
“tilt-shift photography” refers to the use of tilt and a large aperture to achieve a very shallow depth of field.
As I start to play around with my own shots in photoshop I’ll post them (or a link to them) here on Spinning Medium. Until then check these nice examples out:
50 examples of Tilt-Shift -> Smashingmagazine.com
Tilt-Shift group on Flickr -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tiltshift/
