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[xxracerxx]

Tilt shift photography really unnerves me, for some reason.

Seriously, look at this shit.

 

[dreamcastmaster]

Views from Xixang Apartment Xixang Shenzhen China by dcmaster, on Flickr

My Camera has a tilt shift mode.

 

[DD]

It's cool when it's well done. But most of the pics I see look fake and unnecessarily blurry as fuck.

 

[Dascu]

What is the name of this artist. I have some his or her other art saved depicting Mega Man, but I would like to know his/her name.

Looks like Zac Gorman's work.

 

[PalaceBrother]

What's to "get"? The focus make it look like big things are instead really tiny dioramas.

I understand the mechanics behind how the focal length is adjusted, but I don't understand why our brain interprets them the way they do.

 

[SecretMoblin]

There are a bunch of tilt-shift GIFs out there; they're especially popular/effective when done as cinemagraphs.

Here are a few I've come across:

 

[Melchiah]

Here's another I've come across earlier.

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One for the feels.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new...es-heart-shaped-meadow-in-memory-of-wife.html

A devoted farmer created this touching heart-shaped meadow as a tribute to his late wife - by planting thousands of oak trees.

Dedicated Winston Howes, 70, spent a week planting each oak sapling after his wife of 33 years Janet died suddenly 17 years ago.
He laid out the fledgling trees in a six-acre field but left a perfect heart shape in the middle - with the point facing in the direction of her childhood home.
The labour of love has now blossomed into a mature meadow - a peaceful oasis where Winston can sit and remember his wife of 33 years.
His meadow cannot be seen from the road and has remained a family secret until a hot air balloonist took this photograph from the air.

 

[CHEEZMO™]

That's a lot of trees.

 

[SnakeXs]

I understand the mechanics behind how the focal length is adjusted, but I don't understand why our brain interprets them the way they do.

Because at a large distance the depth of field of a normal photo is huge, and everything will be more or less in focus even at large apertures, and very close up the depth of field of a normal photo can be very small, meaning things mere centimeters or inches away from the point of focus will be a blur. Our brain understands that, so when we see something taken at a great distance, but with a very small depth of field it understands it as something taken from up close.

 

[Übermatik]

 

[Arcipello]

oh my yum

 

[Melchiah]

EDIT:

Source: http://muzski.deviantart.com/art/TSOI-287839190

 

[Pro]

 

[adamsappel]

It's crazy that the folks who were once so startlingly fat that people would pay to look at them are now just people you might see everyday on the street.

 

[nailbombxx]

That image is not accurate of the actual split screen multiplayer sessions we had as kids. I fixed it.

Perfect for my childhood.

EDIT: And then you realize there is a bigger TV at the right.

 

[Melchiah]

It's crazy that the folks who were once so startlingly fat that people would pay to look at them are now just people you might see everyday on the street.

My friend said the same, when I posted the pic on FB today.

 

[Fritz]

lol. Is this fake?

 

[brotkasten]

It's funny how all of them have to do a decent movie after the trilogy.

 

[OSHAN]

It's funny how all of them have to do a decent movie after the trilogy.

Viggo was in History of Violence and Eastern Promises.

 

[Cipherr]

Tilt shift photography really unnerves me, for some reason.

Seriously, look at this shit.

Views from Xixang Apartment Xixang Shenzhen China by dcmaster, on Flickr

My Camera has a tilt shift mode.

There are a bunch of tilt-shift GIFs out there; they're especially popular/effective when done as cinemagraphs.

Here are a few I've come across:

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The hell is this.... they look like miniatures. This is incredible. Definitely going to be Googling this after I get my work done today. Uncanny stuff.

 

[Retro]

It's funny how all of them have to do a decent movie after the trilogy.

Bloom did the Pirates trilogy (First one was decent, at least), Elijah Wood did Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...

 

[1871]

It's funny how all of them have to do a decent movie after the trilogy.

Viggo Mortensen?

 

[accx]

Tilt shift is awesome. You can fake it pretty good in photoshop by just blurring the top and bottom with gaussian blur iirc. I made a few photos that way. It obviously works the best if you're at a high altitude, taking the picture in that angle that's been shown.

E:
On second thought, i think you just need to apply a heavy blur with the normal blur tool. Gaussian blur wouldn't work i think.
It's fun to do because it's such a mind fuck. no applied blur, normal picture. Applied blur, miniatures. I remember having my mind blown when switching between the layers

 

[DJ88]

It's cool when it's well done. But most of the pics I see look fake and unnecessarily blurry as fuck.

That's kind of the point.

 

[Pro]

lol. Is this fake?

Nope. Real as a heart attack.

 

[Melchiah]

It's insect time.

Alope Sphinx

EDIT: Some octopi as well.

 

[Melchiah]

The central and peripheral nervous system.

 

[Goodacre0081]

.

 

[dripdripsplash]

The central and peripheral nervous system.

Amazing.

I just scrolled down a little bit, those insects man... Imagine that snake-looking thing crawling on you while you're sleeping... So creepy

 

[Melchiah]

EDIT: Some interesting tidbits about the making of Poltergeist.

 

[hylje]

Waw an Namus (also spelled Wau-en-Namus, Arabic: واو الناموس‎ - Caldera of Mosquitoes) is a volcanic field, cone and caldera in the southern Fezzan region of southern Libya. It is in the near-geographic center of the Sahara Desert.

The inside of the caldera houses an oasis of rich foliage and three small salt lakes of variable color which are the reason for the volcano's name. A volcanic field of dark basaltic tephra flow extends 10–20 kilometres (6.2–12 mi) around the caldera. The dark field's vast size allows it to be easily seen from space.

 

[Platy]

The original Predator was a tall black guy too.

It was destiny.

Wasn't the ORIGINAL Predator Van Damme or something like that ?

 

[Matugi]

It's insect time.

Alope Sphinx

Gypsy?

 

[Melchiah]

QFS

The last one is made by a Chilean friend of mine.

 

[blame space]

 

[Clydefrog]

^^ ewwwwwwwww

 

[Pro]

I don't know. I'd give it a try.

 

[lingiii]

yo mothafuckin' lo

 

[Gui_PT]

I wouldn't mind having a Pizza with Cookies induced heart attack

 

[Currygan]

 

[Melchiah]

By Jared Lyon at DeviantArt.

 

[Scuderia]

QFS

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason?

RIP Storm, was a great designer.

 

[Melchiah]

A Momentary Lapse Of Reason?

RIP Storm, was a great designer.

I didn't know that. Pink Floyd isn't really that familiar to me, apart from the movie, The Wall. Cool pic nonetheless.

 

[TCRS]

Huh, I never noticed that glider. Learning to fly I suppose.

 

[TOM f'N CRUISE]

I don't know. I'd give it a try.

same here

 

[Melchiah]

 

[Melchiah]

QFS

 

[ThaneKrios]

22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist: http://www.boredpanda.com/amazing-places/

 

[Melchiah]

22 Unbelievable Places that are Hard to Believe Really Exist: http://www.boredpanda.com/amazing-places/

Cool pics of cool places.


Here's something a bit different.

99 LIFE HACKS TO MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER
http://dedalvs.tumblr.com/post/48998678919/99-life-hacks-to-make-your-life-easier

 

[Goodacre0081]

another wasp nest