Some of those look really good with the effect (Like the Cruise ship) others, not so much.

Trog, Why dont you use the awesome QGL search features?

Some of those look really good with the effect (Like the Cruise ship) others, not so much.

Trog, Why dont you use the awesome QGL search features?

I used the vastly superior AusGamers one, and I searched the database manually, and it's completely gone

news.com had a really good one of some guy at a monster truck show who took thounds of pixtures, put the effect on them all and made it into a moofie;

This?

Metal Heart from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Mantorok, that is wicked. Looks like an awesome model stop-go animation!!!

Wonder how he automated the process. Possible with ImageMagick?

EDIT: How to do it in GIMP, http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift-fakes/discuss/72057594073514981/

I think he just uses a tilt-shift lens.

That is wikkid! Great idea, would have been pretty simple to implement, wish I'd thought of it after doing my on tilt shift stuff. I thought I made a thread about it but I can't find it now :(

I think I remember you asking how to do them in The GIMP or something, yeah?

The thing with tilt shift is if all the site does is add a mask & blur above and below it, it will only look really good on certain pictures. That boat one is an example of one that doesn't look quite right because the building in the foreground is on a different focal plane to the boat so it needs to be masked off and blurred even though part of it protrudes up into the section with the boat. Same with the rocket/missile.

I agree with what whoop is saying - even though they're my images, because when you're using the website it can only do it so wide, like it has a maximum. I could make them look better but that would take too long than I care to spend on this stuff, even tho I think it's awesome. doing it properly I could make the field which is in focus wider. using the website you have to choose pics that fit right with their settings.

either way its a cool effect.

yer, thats the one mantarok

The car I did above, was done in Photoshop. Just selected the upper and lower regions of the images and feathered them by a large amount. Cut out the car from the selection and then blur repeatedly until you get the desired result.
Reason for large feathering: When you add in a little Gaussian blur and repeat it, the "lower or closer" and the "upper or furthest" parts of the images will blur more than the areas closer to the car.

Still didn't turn out that great, viewing angle was too close to the ground.

this blows

If you are talking about the QGL colour scheme compared to AusGamers, I agree :-p

Wonder what image processor the website is using.

The description and images of a real tilting and shifting camera mechanism are interesting.

http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/tiltshift.jpg


http://i182.photobucket.com/albums/x56/maxe1/IMG_8852_1024-tiltshift6.jpg


neattt

That is wikkid! Great idea, would have been pretty simple to implement, wish I'd thought of it after doing my on tilt shift stuff. I thought I made a thread about it but I can't find it now :(

I think I remember you asking how to do them in The GIMP or something, yeah?

aha! yes I did - thanks, now I found it:

http://www.ausgamers.com/forums/general/thread.php/2568263

I was too dumb to know it was called tilt shift back then.

maxe, neat photos, but they don't lend themself to the process very well IMO. Has to be something with a wider perspective, I think.

Wow, while looking awesome photographically, that monster 'truck' video made me think monster 'trucks' would be a whole lot less cooler to see in real life.