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16 Van Gogh’s Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted

February 2nd, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Most likely you’ve already seen a lot of great tilt-shift photography examples lately, but you probably haven’t seen it done with paintings yet! If you are new to this, “tilt shift” is an effect that gives a real-world scene an illusion of being a miniature model. It can be achieved in two ways : optically (with a special lens) or simulated in Photoshop, by adjusting a photograph’s contrast, color saturation and depth of focus.

“It works quite well with regular photographs, so we decided to try it using paintings to see what would happen…” Serena Malyon, a 3rd-year student at art school, took some of van Gogh’s most beautiful paintings and altered them in Photoshop to achieved this amazing tilt-shift effect.

Nothing in any of these paintings been added or removed or had its proportions changed. The effect is achieved simply by manipulating the light in the scene and adjusting the areas of the image that are more and less in focus, as you will see. This is all being done in fun, so don’t take it too seriously.” says the artist.

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1. The Harvest, 1888

2. Starry Night Over the Rhone, 1888

3. The Starry Night, 1889

4. Arles: View from the Wheat Fields, 1888

5. Field with Poppies, 1889

6. Landscape at Auvers after the Rain, 1890

7. Mountains at Saint-Remy, 1889

8. Pont de Langlois, 1888

9. Prisoners Exercising, 1890

10. Red Chestnuts in the Public Park at Arles, 1889

11. Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow, 1890

12. The Red Vineyard, 1888

13. Sunset: Wheat Fields Near Arles, 1888

14. Wheat Field with Rising Sun, 1889

15. View of Saintes-Maries, 1888

16. The Painter on His Way to Work, 1888

16 Van Gogh’s Paintings Get Tilt-Shifted originally appeared on Bored Panda on February 2, 2011.

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Real World In Miniature: 20 Tilt Shift Photos

August 19th, 2010 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

The photos you are about to see are not miniature toys or models. It’s a real world in Tilt Shift photography!

It can be achieved in two ways: 1) optically or 2) digitally with some photo manipulation.

First method involves taking photos with a special tilt shift lens which allows you to control the plane of focus. These lenses are usually used for simulating a miniature scene.

However, if you want to do it cheap way – there’s always the second method – where all you have to do is defocus certain areas of the photo.  Although these basic digital post-processing techniques can give you results similar to those achieved with tilt – the term should be used only when the effect is produced optically. The digital result is often called “fake tilt shift”.

If you are interested in transforming the real world into a miniature in a cheap way, there are lots of simple Photoshop tutorials, you can start: here and here. If you happen to be a rich bastard then buy some tilt shift lenses as Real Tilt-Shift photography requires, not surprisingly, a Tilt-Shift Lens.

Here are 20 beautiful examples of real world turned into a miniature. Can you tell the fakes from the real ones?

Bamboos for GrinGod

Bamboos for bunchofpants

Bamboos for  Michael.Sutton

Bamboos for Zevotron

Bamboos for mr.beaver

Bamboos for mre1965

Bamboos for EasyTiger3

Bamboos for Express Monorail

Bamboos for andreakw

Bamboos for Swiss Bones

Bamboos for pattagon

Bamboos for Rutger de Moddertukker

Bamboos for gTarded

Bamboos for neilalderney123

Bamboos for Jeff Cushner

Bamboos for EmBe79

Bamboos for Suviko

Bamboos for  lordshrike

Bamboos for [MART!N]

Bamboos for dutchb0y

Real World In Miniature: 20 Tilt Shift Photos originally appeared on Bored Panda on August 19, 2010.

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