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Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:07 PM
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At times, I'd swear it was a miniature set.




Kinda funny with things that should be huge like monster trucks too.

Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:08 PM
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Saw this last week, great effect the new tilt shift lenses bring to time lapse photography!
Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:18 PM
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That is bad ***, more information?
Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:22 PM
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Originally Posted by thesnowboarder
Saw this last week, great effect the new tilt shift lenses bring to time lapse photography!
I demand Redline Time Attack in the rain tilt-shifted!! Haha.


Originally Posted by jtothawhat
That is bad ***, more information?
Not being a smart ***. but I don't know enough about it to explain it, but if you google it, there are lots of explanations/examples.
Old Oct 27, 2010 | 02:31 PM
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i demand 1080p lensbaby videos.
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Originally Posted by Braineack
i demand 1080p lensbaby videos.

ok buddy:



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Originally Posted by brgracer
I demand Redline Time Attack in the rain tilt-shifted!! Haha.
The lenses aren't cheap, and I have been spending my money on the car lately so my camera gear has been put on hold for a while.

However, I did upload my on track footage!
Old Oct 27, 2010 | 05:18 PM
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Ive alwasy thought of it as kinda gimmick. As much as I like experimental photography, I always stayed a purist at heart.
I think it would be more viable to me if it wasnt so over-done, especially recently.

I do like playing with my lens baby, but not in this way. I use it much more subtly.
Old Oct 27, 2010 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by thesnowboarder
The lenses aren't cheap, and I have been spending my money on the car lately so my camera gear has been put on hold for a while.

However, I did upload my on track footage!
I'm the opposite....I've got sucked into photography and now the car is suffering Those tilt shift lenses are cool, but I got about $10,000 worth of other **** I want before one of them lol
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they can be used for practical purposes too, for framing and image distortion correction.
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Reminds me of Robot Chicken
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Kinda neat to see video of tilt-shift. It doesn't bother me when it's done good/right. Those lenses are EXPENSIVE...which is why not many people have the real thing. It also takes a good understanding of DOF to do it well in post processing...but I digress.
The monster truck stop-motion one is awesome.



Yeah, it's only the exaggerated tilt-shift that gives the 'model effect'. A better use of a good tilt-shift is getting a awesome shot from a wide angle (like a 10-22mm) but without the distortion (using a tilf-shift wide angle lens).

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I played around in PS a while back making a similar effect. I was actually thinking more along the lines of simulating the effect you get with a long focal length and a large aperture across a big area, in that the depth of field isnt really very small, but the background is far away enough that its still blown out.

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I basically just did a gradient of increasing levels of a gaussian blur overlapping each other. I didnt even bother masking off anything which is why there is the halo around the car, andI didnt really do it as cleanly as I could, but w/e, its a car in a publix parking lot, certainly not art, haha.
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Tilt-shift is cute.
Old Oct 28, 2010 | 12:29 AM
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Been doing something like this for years in my Autocross event photography, here are a few:






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I was playing with DOF on one picture early this year and came up with this...




...which brought me to doing this.

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Damn... I need a tilt... for the record I think lens babies are over priced and a waste of time... thankfully canon just dropped in price with the ts-e 24mm and 45. I really like your guys photos of the cars using the tilt shift =)
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I want a tilt-shift camera for in-car footage.
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it's a lens you buy for your D-SLR
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OMFG TRUCKASAURUS!!!!lc

and "Robot Highschool" is my new favorite track. Electropop > *

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