It's time to vote for the best photo of the month. July's Photo Contest had no set topic for the photos. Vote for your favorite.

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Once voting is done, I hope whoever took photo #9 might share a little on how to achieve that effect. Thanks!

 

Not my photo, but it's called a tilt shift. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography There are special lenses that can do it... but most people use photoshop or some other photo editing application to fake the look. There are tons of smartphone apps available to do it for free.

 

I had to vote for my own, but i love that cat! So cute!

 

I'm betting the blur tool in PhotoShop. It's not too hard to accomplish. Use a 5.6 F-stop or something that will get all the cars in focus, and then use the blur tool on everything except the cars. At least that is how I would go about it.

I'll be curious how they went about it.

 

It can't be tilt shift. For "tilt-shift" you would have to have more in focus along the focal plane of the cars. Tilt shift just means bending the focal plane to give that other worldly effect.

Too much along the focal plane of the cars is still out of focus I believe for this to be tilt shift.

Now it's possible they shot it tilt shift, then used blur tool as well, but I don't think this is just a tilt shift shot.

 

You can't do that...especially since my picture is from McKnight road (and I had plenty of time to take it since I messed up my reservation for the PVGP)

As for the Tilt-Shift, Topaz make a new PS insert called Lens Effect which can work with this effect (including the angle of the photo). There are tutorials on how to do this directly from PS, however, for the effect to really work well, I think the picture needs to be more top down. Not that this is a bad photo...I actually like it.

 

If you look at the EXIF data for Pic 9, you'll notice the f-stop was f/9 and modified with Gimp, not PS. You are correct about using small apertures to accomplish the wider depth of field.

(I'm not the picture-taker.)

 

Didn't know the EXIF data will still in there. Good call. I'll do that from now on. f9 seems right for sure. Wasn't even sure what GIMP was! LOL

At all the newspapers I have worked at, we have always been straight PS. I've never looked for another program.

Good stuff?

 

I believe that sending the EXIF data is a requirement of the contest (to ensure pictures are recent anyway).

Never used GIMP (or, even heard if it).

 

Being a CS5 user, I actually had to google Gimp to see what it does.

 

Well, it is good to know Gimp was used as that is all I use.

 

Thanks for the interest in #9. As many of the comments said, I used tilt-shift. I don't edit photos very often and I find PhotoShop to be not very user friendly, so I used a cool (free) program called PhotoScape to do the tilt-shift. There were still some background elements in focus that I wanted to blur, so I used GIMP to do that. GIMP is similar to PhotoShop in editing power and user-unfriendliness, but it is free.

 

Thanks! Looks like there are lots of tutorials on achieving the effect using GIMP. Time to play a bit!

 

Voted for 12, cat was a close second. I'm a little surprised the tilt shift photo is currently winning. I don't find it to be a very strong execution of the effect.

 

Post-processing techniques (e.g. High Dynamic Range, artificial bokeh, and, yes, simulated tilt-shift) are pretty popular eh.

Whatever happened to line, space, texture, form, shape, etc.?

 

You might also like this shot from this guy in Spain: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pocatra...2642/lightbox/

 

I'm actually shocked he got an image that clear (inside) going that fast. I actually had one that had the lines sideways like that...but since you couldn't tell it was a road, I ixked it. Plus the steering wheel got in the way.



I think I'm going to make a bracket for the camera that hooks onto the roll bar...maybe I'll get something better next time.

 

JoeyC - I like your photo with the sideways lines a lot. Maybe even better than the one with the straight lines. Both are pretty sweet!

 

Just make sure you rig some kind of dampers to absorb the bumps.

 

I'm back and forth on the thought of this...as some state that it should be as locked down as possible. I don't want the interior to be jumping...just the outside. We'll see what I rig up...

Thanks...my daughter and I went back and forth on which to submit. I think you got this one though

 

I won "Night" last year with a photo like that, my lines were a little more wiggly.



The camera mount I use is a plank of wood which hooks into the back seat anchors: https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...93-post23.html

 

I hope whoever took photo #9 might share a little on how to achieve that effect.