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Tilt-shift photography is a method of photography that utilizes tilt-shift lenses to overcome the restrictions of depth of field and perspective that normal lenses provide. A tilt-shift lens allows for the rotation of lens against the image plane (tilt), as well as the movement of lens along the image plane (shift). By applying Scheimpflug principle, tilt-shift photography is able to obtain a very shallow depth of field using tilt and a large aperture.

Tilt-shift miniature faking is one of the most popular applications of tilt-shift photography. This is a process in which a photographer manipulates the angle of a tilt-shift lens to distort the focus of a scene to be captured by the camera, thereby creating an illusionary depth of field usually produced by macro lenses. This makes the particular scene appear smaller than it truly is.

Due to the popularity of tilt-shift miniature faking, it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with the tilt-shift photography method itself. In reality, there are other effects that can be achieved from this method. For instance, tilt-shifting is widely used to capture architectural scenes because of its unique ability to remove perspective in photos and manipulate the plane of focus.

We present here 60 cool examples of tilt-shift photography for your reference.

Tilt-Shift Photography

Nakayan’s tilt-shift Tokyo 箱庭日比谷線
by pinboke_planet

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Eiffel Tilt-Shift II
by ArnarBi

Tikal Miniature
by roevin

Vatican Stairs
by Toshio

Oregon State Beavers Tilt-Shift Miniature
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Mini-cars on a mini-street
by nahadef

Miniature living room
by countlazarus

Tilt-shift crossroads
by ochmonek

Tilt-shift house
by pernillep

School Walk
by hello hayley

Dirt bikes race start
by wakeboy

New York City Miniature
by Daniele Pesaresi

Real world in miniature: Construction site
by Super tourist

Street in Downtown LA
by CFrancisco

Small Worlds at the Technisches Museum Vienna
by bre pettis

Tilt Loader
by entropy462

Real Macro
by deMiguel

Landschaft30
by Matthias Focks

Mini Traffic
by Studio Skitz (Steven Hsieh)

Toy train
by rolohauck

Two-Bump
by cityshrinker

Kid’s store
by Stevo Arnold

Clock tower
by Rolo Hauck

Houses on a slope
by mcsixth

Bigrig
by Hamish D. Grant

Canal Grande
by jjjohn

River boat on the Mississippi
by djnekokittie

Tilt Shift - Puente del Inca, Mendoza, Argentina
by Al Zuwaga

Vegas mini six
by californiabirdy

Tilt-shift ─ Jhongjhu Port
by Yueh-Hua 2009

old_city-hall_sheraton
by wvs

Peering into the Miniascape
by rawheadrex

The Corniche in Muscat Oman
by Eric Lafforgue

Southern Cross Station
by JamesDPhotography

Small houses
by Hờ Nim</p>

Small People
by ChristofferEngström

serralves 08
by ronyjux

Harvard Book Store - Tilt Shift
by Carmel Kozlov

Man in the woods
by Cheapshooter.com

More Photos

Can’t get enough of these amazing tilt-shift photographs? Here are more:

• 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography
• 41 Amazing Tilt-shift miniature faking photographs
• Tilt/Shift Photography Links

Tilt-shift lenses (D.I.Y)

Not surprisingly, tilt-shift lenses can be quite expensive, costing $1000 and above. Here are some alternative methods you can go for:

• Build A Tilt-Shift Lens for Your SLR for Cheap
• Build a Tilt-Shift Camera Lens for Peanuts

Tilt-Shift With Adobe Photoshop

If tilt-shift lens is not within your budget at this time, how about some Photoshopping to get your photo to look really tilt-shifted.

• Tilt-Shift Photography Photoshop Tutorial
• Fake Model Photography
• How to Make Fake Miniature Scenes
• Tilt-Shift Miniature Fake Technique in Photoshop CS
• Tilt-Shift tutorial

Further Readings

Here are some other articles and links about tilf-shifting photography you might be interested in:

• Introduction to Tilt Photography
• Using a tilt shift lens. A short video on using tilt-shift lenses by renowned photographer Tony Sweet.
• Focus on tilt shift lens. A comprehensive PDF article explaining how tilt-shifting actually works from David Summerhayes.
• View Camera Movements: Why Tilt and Shift? Another well-illustrated article on tilt-shifting.
• Using tilt shift lense to Control Perspective & Control Dept of Field.
• Tilt, Shift Lenses, Tilting At Windmills

VANCOUVER, CANADA - PhotographyBB announced today, the release of the 16th edition of the PhotographyBB Magazine Online. The PhotographyBB Magazine Online is a leading resource in the future of free information distribution, offering readers: Digital Photography tips and techniques, DSLR camera function training, and image post processing tutorials in Adobe® Photoshop™, and RAW processing in Photoshop Lightroom™.

The May 2009 edition is packed with helpful tips for beginners to intermediate level digital photographers. This month the magazine explores positive ways to engage law enforcement officials, preparing your gear for rainy day photography, and a brand new “readers questions” column. Additionally there are Photoshop™ and Lightroom™ tutorials for photographers to get the most out of their post processing techniques.

Editor in Chief, Dave Seeram had these comments regarding this recent release:

“Issue 16, for me, is a bit more down to earth. We wanted to put together an issue that would be helpful to beginners as well as intermediate level photographers. That’s why this month I am really happy to welcome a new column to the magazine which addresses actual questions sent in by our readers. We’re also exploring various issues that all photographers face, such as photography when it comes to the law, and this month’s feature on preparing your gear so that you don’t have to stay indoors on those rainy days.

Additionally, my ‘vacation spot’ list is getting longer thanks to our Photography Around the World column, where this month we visit the vibrant Isla de Mujeres. We’ve also got out photo assignment top picks from the PhotographyBB Forum assignments as well as the top images from our Flickr group - some truly inspiring work from all the participants!”

By way of download in either PDF or ZIP formats, PhotographyBB continues its trend through the future of free downloadable magazine distribution. In a completely ad-free format, each issue contains informative and educational tutorials for amateur and intermediate level photographers.

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This week, we are giving away freebies that we thought should be pretty useful for graphic and web designers. You’ve probably have a rough idea from the title already, here’s a detail break down of what we are giving out at hongkiat.com, courtesy of Designious (also a sponsor of previous contest).

Included in this giveaway are:

• 15x Vector Packs,
• 15x Brush Packs, and
• 10x Font Packs.

Let’s skip directly to the chorus part.

Distribution

Here’s how the freebies will be distributed, with 12 winners in total.

• Vector Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Brush Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Font Packs – 2 Winners with 5 packs/winner

How to Win

Winners get to choose packs of their choice. Two ways to participate in the giveaway:

1. Comment In, or

   Tell us in comment, which do you like. Vector, brush or Font packs.

2. Re-Tweet

   Decide which (among Vector, Brush and Font packs) you’d like to win, and Re-Tweet the following in Twitter:

   • Vector Packs - Re-Tweet this,
   • Brush Packs - Re-Tweet this, or
   • Font Packs - Re-Tweet this.

Contest will close one week from now, 2nd June 2009. Winners will be announced on this page. Good luck

This week, we are giving away freebies that we thought should be pretty useful for graphic and web designers. You’ve probably have a rough idea from the title already, here’s a detail break down of what we are giving out at hongkiat.com, courtesy of Designious (also a sponsor of previous contest).

Included in this giveaway are:

• 15x Vector Packs,
• 15x Brush Packs, and
• 10x Font Packs.

Let’s skip directly to the chorus part.

Distribution

Here’s how the freebies will be distributed, with 12 winners in total.

• Vector Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Brush Packs – 5 Winners with 3 packs/winner
• Font Packs – 2 Winners with 5 packs/winner

How to Win

Winners get to choose packs of their choice. Two ways to participate in the giveaway:

1. Comment In, or

   Tell us in comment, which do you like. Vector, brush or Font packs.

2. Re-Tweet

   Decide which (among Vector, Brush and Font packs) you’d like to win, and Re-Tweet the following in Twitter:

   • Vector Packs - Re-Tweet this,
   • Brush Packs - Re-Tweet this, or
   • Font Packs - Re-Tweet this.

Contest will close one week from now, 2nd June 2009. Winners will be announced on this page. Good luck

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How to Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.

   

2. How to Download Facebook Photo Albums

   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.

   

3. How to Share Flickr Photos to Facebook

   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.

   

4. How to Update Facebook without Using Facebook

   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.

   

5. How to Schedule Facebook Messages

   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.

   

6. How to "Friend" Someone on Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.

   

7. How to Create a Photo Collage Using Pictures of Your Facebook Friends

   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.

   

8. How to Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete or Block You

   X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.

   

9. How to Display Selected Pictures Only on your Facebook Profile Page

   A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"

   

10. How to Remove Facebook Advertisements

    This Greasemonkey script - Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.

    

11. How to Syncs Photos of Facebook Friends with Contacts in Microsoft Outlook

    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.

    

12. How to Display Facebook Statuses on Wordpress Blog

    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.

    

13. How to Post Your Blog Posts to Your Facebook Wall Automatically

    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.

    

14. How to Access Facebook Chat on Desktop

    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.

    

15. How to Create Quiz on Facebook Easily

    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.

    

16. How to Hide Your Online Status on Facebook Chat from Select Contacts

    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.

    

17. How to Get Facebook Updates on Email

    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.

    

18. How to Update Facebook Status from Firefox

    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.

    

19. How to Get Facebook on Your Desktop

    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.

    

20. How to Delete, Cancel and Terminate Facebook Account and Profile

    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.