Information and resources about Tilt-Shift Photography & Miniature faking. Tilt-Shift lens for Canon, Nikon, Sony, Pentax, Olympus, Panasonic (Micro Four Thirds)

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Tilt-Shift Photography

Tilt-Shift Photography, Tilt-Shift lens & Tilt-Shift Software

Tilt-Shift Photography was an exclusive photography technique until in recent years. Then optical tilt shift lenses were limited and comparatively expensive.

Now, we not only have digital photo imaging software, we also have more selection of camera lenses dedicated to this visual art.

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Photo Pixlr Tutorial

Pixlr is a free online photo-editing tool that we can make use of, without downloading any software program. This is especially useful if you just do not want another installed software in your cramped up hard-disk. You need to have the latest adobe flash player installed, in order to use Pixlr. With Pixlr, you can work with layers, layer mask, brush effects and it is very much similar to Photoshop. Of course Photoshop has much more advance tools like channels, pen tool, etc.. but for our Tilt-Shift Pixlr tutorial, it works just fine. Same old photo used again? Yea.. we [...]

Tilt Shift app for iPhone & iPad

Technology just get better and simpler with photography, and that’s good news for users like myself. There are many great photo editing apps for iphone & ipad, but none comes closer to these dedicated tilt shift app in terms of usability, performance and ‘realism’. The featured tilt shift app are either in free or paid/ PRO versions and we are in no way affiliated with them. So yea, trash them justifiably if their apps don’t work work for you, but give them the recognition they deserve if their apps delight you. You can do it within the comments section. We [...]

Diorama Illusion Effect

The term diorama illusion or diorama effect is synonymous with miniature faking today, and it will be interesting to learn the history and progression of diorama. Modern Diorama definition In today’s context, the term Diorama is more popularly known as the depiction of historical events, city or landscapes, nature scenes into either a full-scale replica or scale model of a deliberate setting, with the intent to educate or entertain. Diorama Examples Below are some images from ’60th Anniversary D-Day Diorama’, a collection of 1:72 diorama models to highlight World War II battle. Diorama scale 1:72 is much more tedious to [...]

Miniature Faking Examples

This section is mainly on some example pictures on Digital Tilt-Shift Photography, using photo-editing software like Photoshop, GIMP, Photoscape, Snagit, Pixlr, etc.. to fake tilt-shift images (Miniature Faking). There are some points to observe when we are editing the images, and these will either break or make our fake tilt-shift images. Here we showcase some good and bad miniature faking examples, so we can learn to avoid the common mistakes. Points to note in Fake Tilt-Shift or Digital Miniature Faking When preparing images to fake tilt-shift, it is best to capture photographs from high angles or faraway so the subjects will [...]

Tilt-Shift lens

Tilt-Shift lens Introduction As Tilt-Shift lens are more expensive than the general refractive lenses, the selection for Tilt-Shift lens is limited and very much exclusive. Images taken with Tilt-Shift lens is also known as Optical Tilt-Shift Photography. There have been many DIY tilt-shift lens tutorials sprouting out since donkey years back as many of us do not want to spend $1000 and above for these perspective control lenses. The most important element in these DIY tilt-shift lens is the adapter that links between the camera body to the lens. Image results of DIY tilt-shift lenses are pretty subjective and are [...]

What is Tilt-Shift Photography?

What is Tilt-Shift Tilt-Shift Photography is basically achieved in 2 ways, optically by using a Tilt-Shift lens and digitally by using photo-editing software like Photoshop, Photoscape. Be it optical Tilt-Shift photography or even digital Tilt-Shift photography, its photos are really very unique and very much in demand! Tilt-Shift Photography or Miniature Faking Photography Tilt-Shift Photography is sometime referred as Miniature Faking Photography. Miniature Faking is a creative technique used to create an optical illusion of a life-size image photograph (actual scene), to simulate a ‘miniature scale model’ (toy-like scene). Tilt-Shift Lens Tilt-Shift lens are comparatively more expensive than most of [...]

Tilt-Shift Software Photoscape Tutorial

Free Tilt-Shift Software Pictures and images rendered by desktop Tilt-Shift Software or online Tilt-Shift generator/ maker is referred as Digital Tilt-Shift Photography or more commonly known as Fake Tilt-Shift. There are a few popular photo-editing software to digitally simulate Tilt-Shift effect, with the most popular being Photoshop. Photoshop is an excellent photo-editing software to recreate and retouchup our images, but the learning curves may be a little steep for some of us, and not to mention the hefty price. Another alternative is to use the online Tilt-Shift generator, to create post Tilt-Shift image effect. It is a web-based tool where [...]

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