Awesome Tilt-shift Photography Examples

by | posted: December 8, 2009 7 comments

Tilt-shift Photography is type of photography that uses selective focusing and manipulation to make a scene in a photograph look miniaturized. I have been experimenting for a while now with a free tool to generate tilt-shift photographs over on my photo blog but was blown away by a set of tilt-shift photos from fellow blogger and Japan enthusiast James.

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Shibuya Bus Station

I saw them on his blog and thought I’d share a couple of my favorites along with my attempts to recreate the effect in the past.Be warned though Jame’s examples are 10 times more awesome than mine. I really should make another attempt to create Jamaica or Kingston set of tilt-shift photos, that could just make a really interesting blog post.

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View of New Kingston in Jamaica from my Office building

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The world renowned Shibuya Crossing

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Kool Runnings Water park in Negril when I visited Last year

Jame’s Blog

Be sure to visit Jame’s blog as he is a rather friendly guy who shares a lot of my interests. He blogs about Japan and otaku topics like Gundams. I’ve been pestering him for months now to hurry up and finish that 1/60 scale Gundam Exia he is building.

James did not use an online tool to get the tilt-shift effect in his photos as he is a photoshop genius unlike me -_-. If you want to experiment with and make your own Tilt-Shift photographs you can do so at @ http://tiltshiftmaker.com and leave a comment with a link to your creations as I’d love to see them!

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Kirk lives in Kingston, Jamaica and is an avid Japan enthusiast. Since starting Jamaipanese.com in February 2006 and visiting Japan in September 2011 his knowledge and understanding of Japan has grown and he enjoys sharing his interests with his readers.

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  • http://mykafkaesquelife.blogspot.com/ MKL

    [love] Wow, man, that’s so cool! I’m gonna try to do myself, hehe. I didn’t know this exist. Thanksssss [smile]

    • http://www.jamaipanese.com Jamaipanese

      great be sure to share your creations with me!

  • http://www.turningotaku.com Will

    An Australian made an entire video of these famous spots in Australia and sold them to a major bank and now they’re being used in commercials :D

    • http://www.jamaipanese.com Jamaipanese

      wow he must have made quite a lot of money!

  • http://www.naffworld.co.uk/blog James

    Hey Kirk thanks very much for bgging me up! Loving your shots, they’re so sunny! Living in the UK you kinda forget what that’s like :)

    I promise i’ll finish Exia soon, just seems like all my time is going into planning this wedding at the moment – who thought there’d be so much to it eh!

    Thanks again!

    • http://www.jamaipanese.com Jamaipanese

      no Prob James. You should plan a holiday to get away from the grey skies on the UK, not until you finish Exia though so you can bring him along!

  • http://dailykumo.wordpress.com/ kumo

    Kool stuff Kirk!
    I also made some tilt-shifts of Japan, to be seen here:
    http://dailykumo.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/miniature-japan-kawaii/