Tilt-Shifting Time Lapse Photography - Very Cool

[Chuck Engels]

This is really amazing photography, reminds me of something Paul might do





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Tilt-Shift Images

[Steve Grisetti]

What's most amazing is how unreal it all looks. Like it was actually digital animation. The people and places look so clean and perfect!

[Ron]

I agree, but it was pretty cool!

[Dave McElderry]

It really does look like miniatures, especially in certain shots. Like old claymation stuff. I watched this 3 times and will show it to my wife when she gets home. Makes me want to go Disneyland now, and I've never wanted to go there.

[chooks]

It does look good

I understand the time lapse photos used (must have been thousands of photos), but not sure exactly what tilt shifting is about or how it applies?

[Peru]

It does look good

I understand the time lapse photos used (must have been thousands of photos), but not sure exactly what tilt shifting is about or how it applies?

Click the link under the video in the original post.

[Spot]

I've seen a commercial over here using this technique, looks great.
Here is a pretty cool and simple tutorial showing how it's done on a single image.
cheers
JB

http://www.alittlephotoshop.com/videos/ ... photoshop/

[Chuck Engels]

Very nice tutorial JB, that is how to create the effect in Photoshop.

But the actual Tilt-Shift Photography is accomplished with a special lens and method of shooting the image.
It can be done it post production as the tutorial shows, but this is best done live.

"Tilt-shift photography" refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital postprocessing; the name may derive from the tilt-shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically.

"Tilt-shift" actually encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp; it makes use of the Scheimpflug principle. Shift is used to change the line of sight while avoiding the convergence of parallel lines, as when photographing tall buildings.

The entire Wiki article is very interesting, I want to figure out how to do this with video cameras
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

[chooks]

Wow, this is really fascinating stuff... thanks for the links. Here is another one I found awsome:



I had a look at tilt & shift lense for my canon SLR, but its a fair bit out of my price range unfortunately

Hopefully Chuck will figure out how to do this effect in PE and do a tutorial for us

[Chuck Engels]

Here are some Tilt Shift lenses for Canon cameras
http://shop.usa.canon.com/webapp/wcs/st ... 1_-1_29760

They sure aren't cheap

[Bob]

Hopefully Chuck will figure out how to do this effect in PE and do a tutorial for us

If you are not a "purist" and content with doing it in post, you can do a credible job using PE. The easiest way is to use our friend the Track Matte Key. Place the original sharp footage on, say, track 1 and track 2. Apply a blur effect to track 2. Place an appropriate luma matte image on track 3 and apply the track matte to track 2 specifying the matte on track 3.

You can make the luma matte in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Since model shots are commonly done using a tripod and a fixed position, you can get by with a single still image prepared similar to that in the tutorial that was linked earlier. If you want to simulate a dolly shot or pan, you'll need to make an animated matte that tracks the motion. If you want that, you're better off using After Effects.

[tiny]

Wow, this is really fascinating stuff... thanks for the links. Here is another one I found awsome:



I had a look at tilt & shift lense for my canon SLR, but its a fair bit out of my price range unfortunately

Hopefully Chuck will figure out how to do this effect in PE and do a tutorial for us

This one is easily my favorite.

[Chuck Engels]

Here is a very cool video that includes using some Tilt Shifting

[momoffduty]

Hopefully Chuck will figure out how to do this effect in PE and do a tutorial for us

If you are not a "purist" and content with doing it in post, you can do a credible job using PE. The easiest way is to use our friend the Track Matte Key. Place the original sharp footage on, say, track 1 and track 2. Apply a blur effect to track 2. Place an appropriate luma matte image on track 3 and apply the track matte to track 2 specifying the matte on track 3.

You can make the luma matte in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Since model shots are commonly done using a tripod and a fixed position, you can get by with a single still image prepared similar to that in the tutorial that was linked earlier. If you want to simulate a dolly shot or pan, you'll need to make an animated matte that tracks the motion. If you want that, you're better off using After Effects.

Found a tut for AE: http://ae.tutsplus.com/tutorials/vfx/living-in-toytown/

I tried this in PrEl with a gradient matte for the blur track matte as Bob's post suggested. (Just now read Bob's post...thinking alike!) My results were not very good. Could be the video I used and could not get the contrast of blk/wht & sharp colors with PrEl effects. AE is the better route.