Tilt Shift experiment

[Grumpy John]

I've been reading some of the older posts from when the forum first started back in 2010 and came across a post by ScottH showing some tilt shift images.
Here is my first attempt at doing a tilt shift in PS6. I'm not sure that I have chosen the best image to try this on.
CC most welcome.

The image before tilt shift applied.


After tilt shift applied.

[Grumpy John]

And another one.

[wigz]

Interesting John, but it doesn't work for me. The shallow dof on these images just looks wrong given the subject distance. Now if you could tilt to increase what's in focus, that would something.

[Grumpy John]

Thanks for your comments Alan. As I said in the OP, maybe my choice of image for this experiment was wrong.

[Grumpy John]

Interesting John, but it doesn't work for me. The shallow dof on these images just looks wrong given the subject distance. Now if you could tilt to increase what's in focus, that would something.

One of the objectives of tilt shift is to create a shallow DOF.

Written by Steve Patterson.

In this Photo Effects tutorial, we'll learn how to create a miniature effect in Photoshop CS6 using its brand new Tilt-Shift blur filter. Tilt-shift camera lenses are often used with architecture photography to prevent perspective distortion, or with landscape or product photos to control the plane of focus, but they can also be used to make real life scenes look more like tiny miniature sets, transforming full size people, cars, buildings and so on into little mini versions of themselves. It works by creating a shallow depth of field, the kind you'd expect to see with macro photography, so your real life photo ends up looking more like a miniature scene shot up close with a macro lens.

This effect works best with a photo taken from high overhead and looking down on your subject at an angle. You'll also want a photo where everything is initially in focus, since we're going to adjust the depth of field ourselves.

Link

[Toddyh]

You have achieved the miniature look but I'm not sure it works on these images.
I can see cropping out the mountains in the second one making the beach scene work better.

[Grumpy John]

Thanks for your comments Toddy. I agree, I could have chosen better images. I'll have a look for something better, or better yet go and take some photo's especially for this effect.

[seaslug]

Not working for me either. Maybe some use in portraiture but a fast lens is sure to give a better result at wide settings.

[Grumpy John]

You have achieved the miniature look but I'm not sure it works on these images.
I can see cropping out the mountains in the second one making the beach scene work better.

A tighter crop gives a much better result. I still don't think this is the right image to try a tilt shift edit on.

[Toddyh]

That does work better John. Look forward to seeing some pics taken especially for this purpose.

[Grumpy John]

Thanks Toddy. Now I just have to find the time to get out and take the shots.

[Isac]

I'm with Todd on this John, just my 2BW