The Glade 4.0

Some of these are really awesome.

Very cool.

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Wow, beautiful.

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That's a spiffy technique.

Heh. I messed around with the "tilt-shift" effect quite a bit a year or two ago, making real photographs look like pictures of models. I never thought about applying it to paintings, though. That's pretty trippy.

Edit:

Actually, what he's doing here is mostly just false DOF (depth-of-field) in general, rather than the tilt-shift effect in particular. Tilt-shifting really screws with your sense of scale. For instance, this is not a model:



The idea is fairly simple:

1) The further away an object is from the camera, the less saturated it will appear due to atmospheric dust, etc. Artificial tilt-shift first messes with your mind by oversaturating the image a bit. This makes your brain think that the objects are closer to the camera than they really are.

2) Due to the nature of optics, you can't focus on a very wide range when you're looking at objects close to the camera/your eye. For instance, place your hand 6 to 8 inches above your keyboard and focus on your hand. Note that your keyboard is blurry and out of focus. Yet, if someone else holds their hand 6 to 8 inches in front of your keyboard while you look at it from 10 feet away, you have no trouble focusing on both simultaneously. So the tilt-shift affect also messes with your head by making only a very narrow range of depth in the image be in-focus. Anything in front of or behind that depth becomes out of focus very quickly. This mimics the optics of up-close photography.

Long before the days of photoshop, etc. you could buy a special "tilt-shift" filter for your camera that would accomplish the same effect.

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Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

Thanks for confirming to myself that I'm not insane, Stathol. I kept looking at those and going ".. isn't that just faking an extreme (lack of) depth of field?"

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