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Old 01-27-2015, 07:22 PM
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Picture of the Month #53

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Meanwhile, in California…. last Friday, January 23, krote6 took his ’06 Carrara White Cayman S
the “long way” from the Bay Area, to the year’s first autocross in Santa Maria. In that neck of
the woods, that's driving CA Hwy. 1 down the coast, and stopping for a picture along the way.
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Old 01-27-2015, 07:33 PM
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Beautiful shot, and I love the Martini stripes!
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Old 01-27-2015, 07:50 PM
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Nice! Was it a real tilt-shift?

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Old 01-27-2015, 09:20 PM
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Thanks. Reminded me of our drive on that same road during the 2014 Parade. Wonderful. Thanks again. Ed
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Beautiful shot, and I love the Martini stripes!
Me too!
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Old 01-28-2015, 06:30 AM
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Cool shot, beautiful background and one damn nice looking Cayman...
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Stunning!
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Love it. I especially like the long shadows off the rocks, and the contrast of sharp focus in the foreground and a bit of a blur in the background. I'm wondering, how did you accomplished that?
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Love it. I especially like the long shadows off the rocks, and the contrast of sharp focus in the foreground and a bit of a blur in the background. I'm wondering, how did you accomplished that?
Google "tilt-shift".

There are apps and programs that allow you to do a fake "tilt-shift" effect, but it can also be done with very expensive lenses.

Perhaps Brad or one of the forum photogs can chime in. I have messed around with an app, and it can be very effective.

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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Tilt Shift is pretty cool. Thanks for the heads up.
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

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Nice! Was it a real tilt-shift?

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Love it. I especially like the long shadows off the rocks, and the contrast of sharp focus in the foreground and a bit of a blur in the background. I'm wondering, how did you accomplished that?
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Google "tilt-shift".

There are apps and programs that allow you to do a fake "tilt-shift" effect, but it can also be done with very expensive lenses.

Perhaps Brad or one of the forum photogs can chime in. I have messed around with an app, and it can be very effective.
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Tilt Shift is pretty cool. Thanks for the heads up.
To get the real tilt-shift, this picture was shot with an early 1970s vintage 4x5” Sinar P view camera with a 90mm Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f/8 lens, equipped with a wide-angle bellows, on 4x5” Fuji Velvia ISO 100 color transparency film. The top of the front plane of the camera was tilted down, and the front was also shifted up, while the top of the back plane was tilted back slightly, and was shifted down. The transparency was scanned in a Hasselblad Flextight X5 scanner to 10,000 pixels wide @ 600 pixels/inch.






Nah, just kidding.... it was shot with a Droid Razr, and I used Photoshop CC 2014 to do a lot of masking, exposure and color correction, then used the tilt-shift tool. Here's the original:

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To get the real tilt-shift, this picture was shot with an early 1970s vintage 4x5” Sinar P view camera with a 90mm Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f/8 lens, equipped with a wide-angle bellows, on 4x5” Fuji Velvia ISO 100 color transparency film. The top of the front plane of the camera was tilted down, and the front was also shifted up, while the top of the back plane was tilted back slightly, and was shifted down. The transparency was scanned in a Hasselblad Flextight X5 scanner to 10,000 pixels wide @ 600 pixels/inch.






Nah, just kidding.... it was shot with a Droid Razr, and I used Photoshop CC 2014 to do a lot of masking, exposure and color correction, then used the tilt-shift tool. Here's the original:

Click the image to open in full size.
Oh man, I laughed my butt off reading that.

I was about to say "Man! That is PURE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORN" right there, but the money shot was not what I was expecting. :-)

Actually Brad, I still don't believe you. That's not Larry's car. That is a Hot Wheels car that looks like Larry's car shot on a diorama. You can tell us the truth. We can take it.

A few years ago, Tilt-Shift was a big deal and there were a lot of commercials that had tilt-shift effects. Disneyworld did some really cool time-lapse stuff of activities in the parks which may have been done with actual tilt-shift lenses.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blo...y-at-the-park/
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Only a great Photo guy like Brad can make a photo taken by a phone look so good..
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Only a great Photo guy like Brad can make a photo taken by a phone look so good..
Amen to that.... Brad will smack me for saying this, but keep this in mind when thinking that you might have a Picture of the Month candidate. Brad is capable of making a good picture really great.
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

Recent DSLRs can do this in camera. Nikon calls it "Miniature effect"; I'm sure Canon has something equivalent.
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Re: Picture of the Month #53

It also reminded me of our return trip from the 2014 Parade, except we went North on 101 up to Oregon, except for a stretch on 128 and 1 up to Leggett. Beautiful drive, but it's hard to go fast and enjoy the scenery at the same time. I'll have to look to see if we took any pictures with the Cayman in it.
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Great looking car ..
Need to do that shot again with the new wheels
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