The Photography Thread

[PeteJ]

That's so cool

How'd you do it?

[Alastair]

Fake Tilt Shift right. Sometimes looks ace (like yours). SOmetimes looks absolute pants. All down to the original image I think. Not tried it myself.

[Ish]

DaiSuki - thats well cool. How are you doing it? Selecting areas and then applying different levels of blur to them?

The cars really do look like tiny toy cars. Well impressive.

[DaiSuki]

Cheers

It's just a photoshop job... I put my method down with the bigger version of the image, here. It's basically a very narrow depth of field which your eye normally associates with close up work, combined with a subtle change in the colours to make it look brighter and more toyish.

If the instructions there aren't clear enough, let me know and I'll describe it again (actually, it's Magnakai who I have to thank for this, because he showed me the technique in the first place).

It was inspired by the real 35mm work of this guy, who uses a tilt-shift lens on a normal camera and no post-processing.

[Ish]

Neat. I'll be trying that out later

I do love PhotoShop. Its not cheap but I must use it every single day. I was using it a lot before I got my camera and now I just can't leave it alone. Constantly having ideas of things to try and do. There's so much to learn about all this stuff it reminds me of 20ish years ago when I first started learning how to program computers.

Fantastic

[DaiSuki]

Like Agent L says, it's all down to the original image I think. I've seen some **** ones, and I've made some **** ones myself before I managed the one I posted. The technique seems to favour bright and clean images (particularly ones featuring cars - pehaps toy cars are easy for the brain to imagine), which have a fair bit of depth and which are taken from overhead looking down.

I did a couple of Shanghai at night (which you can find on here somewhere if you're of a mind to), and while they made the lights look pretty cool and there was still some sense of small scale-ness, they weren't nearly so effective as that one.

But aye, it's a cool trick and no mistaking

[Ish]

Good Photography Resources

Not for inspiration (I have plenty of that and if I run dry there's flickr) but on the more technical aspects of taking photographs.

As some of you know I recently bought a NIkon D50. Its my first SLR. And I'm experimenting like crazy and enjoying it. But I feel my experiments would be more productive if I understood a few more of the basics a bit more thoroughly.

I understand most things at least a little (aperture, exposure etc.) but only a little. And I don't really know how to constructively apply them.

Pointers anyone - can be books, websites, whatever.

[squidman]

There's a couple of Digital Photography magazines that can be found. I forget their names, but they're all so similar: digital photography montly, digital camera magazine etc. They vary in quality from month to month but often feature the odd good tutorial and that. I know one of them is doing a feature next month on making your black and white prints look better, which i'm looking forward to.

It might be worth popping to your local library as mine recieves all of them montly and puts them in the reference section - it's a lot cheaper than splashing out a ton of money on them (plus I can read the british journal of photography whilst i'm there). Being a photography student, the local college has a massive amount of technical books on photography and composition that you can get your hands on - i can give you some exact titles if you're interested. It's worth seeing if you've got any of those near you too, most of them let the public get their mitts on the books if you ask nicely!

I don't know how advanced you are at photography though - you might not find them useful at all.

[MartyG]

Not for inspiration (I have plenty of that and if I run dry there's flickr) but on the more technical aspects of taking photographs.

Been mentioned numerous times: http://www.kenrockwell.com/ - although it can sometimes come across as a bit condecending, there's a lot of practical real world advice on Ken's site.

[HaHaUK]

Playing around in the garden today:

Flowers

[112]

Cheers

It's just a photoshop job... I put my method down with the bigger version of the image, here. It's basically a very narrow depth of field which your eye normally associates with close up work, combined with a subtle change in the colours to make it look brighter and more toyish.

If the instructions there aren't clear enough, let me know and I'll describe it again (actually, it's Magnakai who I have to thank for this, because he showed me the technique in the first place).

Is this a filter i should be look for or a combination o certain options? Also, can this be done on any photoshop?

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[Alastair]

Look here for a how to: http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/

Don't think it can be done on PS Elements which is what I use.

[112]

cool mate thanks! Wonder if this will work on people as opposed to objects.

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[Alastair]

Ever found anyone famous posting on Flickr? I've just found Dave Gorman!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dgbalancesrocks/

He seems strangely obsessed with balancing rocks on each other but apart from that is a decent photographer.

And here's my latest upload:



Not sure why but I like it.

[112]

face it, you like pink! yah big girl! Colour seems to be yah thing in all yah photos. Nice work mate.

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