On my flight back to Colorado I took a nice enough picture of Denver and thought it would look great if it was tiny. Using Snapseed I tried to add tilt shift and adjust the filters, contrast, etc. so it looks close and tiny. My mom is giving me all her cameras and lenses for Christmas apparently so photo editing is something I should start working on.
My plan is to take my own reference photos to paint as well.
Below is the original photo.
Does this count as art?
it’s cool and more importantly you made it with intention. idk if you meant to make art, but you did!
Thank you! And I did, just wasn’t sure if it belonged in this community or not.
Its so interesting how our brains see a limited focal range and naturally assume ‘small’.
Like sure giraffes natural instincts are walking after 10 min or whatever, but our instincts are just “really good at imagining things” and somehow that made us global apex predators.
Long story short this is a cool ass photo, and I love the perspective it pushed me towards.
Thank you! And agreed it is weird for sure. It’s fun to play with.
Do we have a tiltshift sub on lemmy? I love this kind of pics.
Is this just bokeh from a farther perspective?
Not quite, although it’s not entirely unrelated. Bokeh is the shape that out-of-focus stuff takes on, most visible on small bright points but still applicable to the rest of the out-of-focus stuff. Tilt-shifting technically refers to a broader technique, but in contexts like this it refers to a combination of a couple of things that trick our brains into thinking the image is of something small. Using a small depth of field (only a thin plane of the image is in focus) and a long focal length (which reduces the apparent effect of perspective, note how the roads in the image don’t seem to be converging much at all) has this effect, as OP has shown so well
(Disclaimer: I am very much not an expert here, if I’ve screwed up terminology I welcome corrections)
No idea. I think with actual camera lenses they’re created differently. But I have no idea what I’m talking about so maybe ignore that bit.
Woah, I love it. I kept wondering wtf you were on about, because I was looking at the second (original photo) and not getting it. Then I scrolled up before closing the tab and BAM, there it was.
Haha I’ve done that! I’m semi famous for not reading subject lines and replying “what the hell does this mean?”… Oops
Tiny Denver
You’ve been down too long in the midnight sea
Oh what’s becomin’ of me
Ride the Dodger
You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean
Oh don’t you see what I meanHold me closer Tiny Denver
❤️❤️❤️
I love the idea, the photo also kinda looks surreal in the first place
It does! I like taking pictures from the plane because I love the scale of things and how our perception changes based on our frame of reference. I’ve never tried to do anything with them other than just enjoy the them for myself.
The edited version also looks a bit like from a video game like GTA because of the colors.
I see what you mean! Grand Theft Colorado!
I’m not really happy with the colors. Advice? I can see it looks more like a filter than it’s close but what would I do in a tool to fix it? I played with color scale, contrast, brightness, etc. and it just looks filtered instead of close to me.
I think the colors are nice, it looks like a warm film exposure
Thank you!
First, I feel like the look it has rn makes very happy because it feel like a little video game.
Second, from my understanding there is a way of doing contrast where you take brightness and create an S curve centered on the median brightness value so that you don’t shift the median you just expand from it. Can look a bit more natural that basic contrast.
Oh, I look into that. Thank you!
Totally!
Does your mom have a tiltshift lens? I want one so bad lol I love the resulting images from them!
I don’t know, if she does I’ve never seen her use it. I had no idea that was a thing but now I want one!
Great job! Very creative, keep at it!
Thank you!
