Toy train south of Stony Brook
By adamg - 1/24/09 - 10:56 pm
The Notorious R.O.B. used a technique known as tilt shift to transform the Orange Line into an HO train set.
Photo used under Creative Commons.
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Wow
That's a really nice artistic effect.
It's just tilt, and it's fake.
That's fake tilt- it's not shift. Shift is perspective altering.
1)Create mask except for a band where your subject is located. Use a gradient, instead of a hard line.
2)Apply gaussian blur.
It's about as common as selective desaturation, which was all the rage a couple years ago (now it's this.)
This guy didn't bother to feather the mask with a gradient or align the horizon to the frame or mask.
All I just heard was a
All I just heard was a grownup from the Charlie Brown cartoon talking "bla bla bla bla wah wah wah wah blah blah wah blah"
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Hey Brett, you forgot to
Hey Brett, you forgot to write "...but it still looks really cool."
It's true
I just ran the original photo through a website ( http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ ) because I don't have a tilt-shift lens nor Photoshop.
It *is* a common thing these days (fake tilt-shift, I mean). This was my first try after I ran across the website.
I'm sorry you didn't like the photo, Brett.
To nit some picks.. 1 -
To nit some picks..
1 - There is a gradient - look at the large size photo on Flickr.
2 - Gaussian Blur will just make the photo look foggy.. this is simulated lens blur.
Sheesh
Forgot the lens flare too.
But was it on time?
Or really reliable?
hooray for tilt shift
In this case, it appealed to the 6 year old train buff that still resides in some of us. Thanks!