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45 Great Tilt-shift Photographs

June 13, 2009

Tilt-shift photography is a technique of photographing using a special configuration at your camera so that you can capture the scene in a miniature scale. Tilt-shift actually stands for two different types of movements to get the photo: rotation of the lens relative to the image plan - called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane - called shift. This miniature effect can also be reached at photoshop as you will be able to check out at the tutorials links mentioned here.

This post was suggested by one of our readers, tiltshift (Yuri). When I received his suggestion and started to research more about the technique I was pretty impressed because I actually didn't know how the effect was done. And worst, don't laugh at me, I always thought that those images were real... little people and little things putted into very little scenarios. :)
So now that I learned more about this I want to share this images with you and encourage you to read more about this kind of photography.

Interesting links about tilt-shift:
Wikipedia: Tilt-shift Photography
Wikipedia: Tilt-shift miniature Faking
Tilt-shift Tutorial
Tutorial

Also make sure to click the images to go to the source to read more about the artists or the technique. Enjoy!!

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43 Comments

Luis Quiñones06/13/2009

Wouw this amazing! really inspiring. Thanks for sharing ;)

miriam#206/13/2009

those are fantastic!! I've never seen pictures like that before! thanks a lot for the inspiration!

samwild06/13/2009

These look great :D I might try this if I can find a high, urban place...

Stryker06/13/2009

Just super

Graeme06/13/2009

www.mikehunterphotography.com

some nice tiltshift photography here too.

Antonio Rizza06/13/2009

Fantastic!!!!

Raineshine06/13/2009

there's a really easy online program you can use to fake this effect! it's http://labs.artandmobile.com/tiltshift/ and it's really fun. here's an example I made...

Stock Shift by ~Raineshine on deviantART

GisMullr06/13/2009

Thanks for the tip Raineshine!
I will also try. :)

Lex Vilanova06/13/2009

Is this photoshopped or is it an actual technique? If so, where do I learn it? Awesome!

The Loft06/13/2009

@Lex It's both. You can buy lens like LensBaby that are tilted already. Or use PS to 'fake' it. Check here for some Tilt Shift photos.

http://www.theloftphoto.com/

lufutu06/14/2009

Not all great, some pics're look very bad !

Victor...06/14/2009

wow! never seen this before! what amazing, new content! Never seen this anywhere else, and never with better coverage or a better understanding of the technique! amazing!

etherflame06/14/2009

Awesome! It's incredible how this effect can be achieved by tiltshift.

kadaffy06/14/2009

haha, amazing stuff~!

Rahul Jadhav06/14/2009

Nice collection. Saw many new pics
Here is a Tilt Shift pic created by me

Jasper06/14/2009

What's the advantage of using a special lens over using Photoshop? I think you have more control when you use Photoshop, or am I wrong?

Jasper06/14/2009

What's the advantage of using a special lens over using Photoshop? I think you have more control when you use Photoshop, or am I wrong?

nana06/14/2009

I love this!!! Thanks for sharing!

Felipe06/14/2009

Here is one at Lisboa, Portugal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lipelipidio/3249757487/

Hummy06/14/2009

Thanks for picking some of my photos!

adek06/14/2009

phenomenal !!

Jamie Carter06/14/2009

Haha, I really love this effect, great article!

Avida06/14/2009

Is it just me or does this (awesome) camera technique mak everything look like a miniature?

Blue Blots06/14/2009

lol some of them looks like a miniature.nice

TipSquirrel06/14/2009

One of my favourite effects. Excellent examples, thanks for collecting them.

Lex Vilanova, I posted a quick way of making a tilt shift effect on my site.

AndyDeGroo06/14/2009

Awesome collection!

Also it's pretty easy to fake this effect in Photoshop by using duplicate layer of blurred original image and applying gradient as mask of that layer.

web develop06/15/2009

Very Cool. I love the look of tilt shift photography. Everything looks mini.

Clemente Gomez - kreativeKING06/15/2009

This si a pretty interesting effect. I've never seen it before. Are there any places that teach how to do this with the camera??

Cooper Shrieve06/15/2009

The X-Mas/Train one IS miniature.

Mike06/15/2009

Great collection. Some are truly unbelievable.

SL05NED06/15/2009

SWEEEEEEET

Gwen06/15/2009

It's one thing to use a program to do this... When I went to community college someone in the black and white photography class was able to create this affect using ONLY a MANUAL SLR camera and black & white film.

So until I see it again without using photoshop or the like... then it will get my respect. I'm not saying they are poorly done, but it seems a lot of the art in life is getting replaced by filters and software.

Gwen06/15/2009

Oh and by the way.. that was in reference to the software post... not the actual photography

POiStar06/15/2009

Thanks for the collection, great job.

Here is my tilt-shift at DeviantArt
http://poistar.deviantart.com/art/Pueblo-Photoshop-119429371

furvert10106/15/2009

the world suddenly got alot smaller... ^_^

Mepho06/15/2009

This makes everything a lot smaller and almost fake looking like a miniature plastic city

so cool, great share

akuji rocks06/16/2009

genial no conocia esta tecnica de fotografía sorprendente

nocturn06/19/2009

the first one showing Stockholm is awesome!

Oliver06/21/2009

Awesome list. I remember seeing some of these a while ago and the second I got home I made a few in photoshop. Not as good as these tho.

Thombo06/21/2009

I tried my own tilt-shift image, but I'm not sure it worked out well.. You can check it here:
Tilt-shifted Bruges..

Tyler06/23/2009

I love tilt-shift and fake tilt-shift. Some of the photos above are great, some are alright.

This is one I took:

Click on it to see the larger version. Used Photoshop actually

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