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[zackiedawg]

I enjoyed the images posted months ago, and the samples, showing the 'tilt-shift' processing style...and decided to give it a go with a few of mine.  Knowing that pics with an overhead perspective work the best, I was limited to just a few shots to try it with...but it's alot of fun!

Here's a shot from the upper floors of the Buena Vista Palace hotel - the hotel is in the focus area, and Disney's Marketplace is beyond:



Here's Fulton's Crabhouse and Pleasure Island, from the same vantage point:



This one isn't Downtown Disney...but it was the only other one I could produce the effect with due to the overhead perspective.  This is the Victoria Gardens of Canada Pavilion, viewed from the top of the waterfall wall above the restaurant:



I followed the basic instructions on the other thread...adjusting brightness and contrast, saturation boost, gradient mask, gaussian blur...obviously alot more practice will be needed to get the effect really down pat.  I will be thinking of these next time I am there, so I have more such shots to play with using tilt-shift processing!

Comments, questions, critique always welcome.

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[Roger]

Good shots Justin!  I'll need to add those to my list as well.

BTW PSP has a filter for doing this built in.

[DisneyGeek92]

I've never tried tilt shift before. Nice pics.

[Tim]

awesome shot of queen victoria's gardens.  very nice.

[PolynesianMedic]

Justin these are amazing! Nice work.

[Roger]

Not the greatest source file for this, but here you go:

[zackiedawg]

Thanks all.  BTW, for those who haven't been around since the early days, here's the link to that original thread I got the idea from:

http://www.themagicinpixels.com/forum/index.php?topic=72.0

It's got links to the instructionals and good samples.

It wasn't my original idea...but it's fun to try out.

RLongenbach - that's a great subject for the treatment - the subs lend themselves very well to a toy-like feel!

[JeremyES]

The garden shot looks great.  I'm considering going out para-sailing when I'm next at the parks, solely to get some high angle shots to fool around with in Photoshop.

[gary]

these are great, i can't tell the difference on the gardens shot, to me it looks like the best ho modeling job ever seen, i'm going to try for some deck 10 castaway cay shots on the cruise in may and see what i can do with them
since we are staying pre cruise 1 night at the hyatt at mco, i may try for a shot from their top floor pool/observation deck, overlooks an active flight line, might yeild something to work with

[zackiedawg]

That would be pretty cool - get some overhead shots around the parks, and make the entire theme park look like a model!

Some of those who have shots from on top of the Contemporary looking into Magic Kingdom probably have some good shots for this effect, too.

[zackiedawg]

BTW - Here's the normal garden shot without the effect:



The blur is important for that catheder-camera look with the shallow depth of field...but the bright, saturated colors lend that 'plastic' look that really helps sell it.

[Kiki]

OK...I searched but couldn't find this technique described. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

[JeremyES]

Kiki,

This is where I learned the technique from:

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/index.html

[zackiedawg]

I had seen it elsewhere, though I can't remember now what the link was as it was a few years ago...but the site Jeremy linked reminded me of it again, and it describes the technique well.

The key I think is to have a shot that has the downward angle - best to use shots taken of a scene from higher up looking down a bit.  That's what gives that model perspective.

[Kiki]

Kiki,

This is where I learned the technique from:

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/index.html

Thanks so much!