Look what I have stumbled upon... Tilt shift photography, if like me you know nothing of it, I highly recommend you do a google search for it, or whatever your favourite search engine is, it's fascinating. The resulting photography should ideally look like a miniature. The effect can be achieved optically by using a tilt-shift lens. Or it can be achieved digitally by blurring the top and bottom of the photograph so that only the subject is in focus. Let's try it... choose a photo of a large scale to start with, and read on this technique, if you know as little as I do, and look at examples if you are not sure... Looking forward to seeing your results. Upload to our gallery, so that we all could go and look...

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Fascinating!!! I've never heard of it but am game - count me in. We have big weekend plans this week so I won't be able to start until next week though.

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Hi Olga
You might be interested in this article if you hadnt come across it
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25432.html

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thanks SR, off to read it!

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This is a really cool technique. Definitely interesting.

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Snag my blinkie!

Hadn't heard about it before reading this thread. Neat!

you could build one of these like the article suggests (although I would be VERY careful attaching that hacked out lens cap to my $1500 digital body!.. or just go out and get yourself a used Lensbaby for around $100... google lensbaby and it will show you the same thing but built for your camera. They product some interesting effects.. basically the same with out of focus areas at strange angles. Note this effect can be easily done in photoshop too... check these out:

before



after



and here are the steps:

1. open photo in photoshop
2. hit Q to set Mask Mode
3. hit D to setup default colors
4. Click Inverse color icon over black/white color selector
5. Enter Gradient Color Mode
6. Setup the Gradient so it is using the cylinder (4th grad type)
7. Pick you focus point in the photo (about 1/3 way up is good)
8. Drag the gradient upwards at almost a straight line and let go
9. Hit Q and exit mask mode and then inverse the selection
10. Apply a lens blur with shape: hex, radius: ~57 and bright: ~40
11. Apply a curve with a sharp arc in the middle... the arc should exagerate the look of the photo and give it an artificial kinda look.

Let me know if you have questions...! Good Luck

Any suggestions as to how to acheive this in PSE?

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