Hey guys,
My family all got together for a family photo session yesterday, and while speaking with my sister(amatuer photog) and her friend the pro I got on the subject of photographing cars. I was wondering how they are done when you see the car in focus, but also somehow looking like a scale model? I can't seem to find any examples online, but I know I have seen them before. I would like to see how my RX-7, or REPU looks like that. I am sure it is just some technique that the photographer is using with tha camera setting, but I wouldn't know how to explain it to her/them. Any help would be appreciated. Expamples would be even better so I can show her what I am so poorly trying to describe. Soory if I am a dumb ass.
Chris
It's probably fake tilt-shift. You can do it in Photoshop. The real tilt-shift lenses are pretty expensive.
http://mashable.com/2013/09/24/photoshop-tilt-shift/
Some cameras also have that fake tilt-shift function built in, though it often looks crude compared to the Photoshop effect.
Incidentally, the oversharpening and ridiculously boosted saturation in that tutorial is mildly nauseating.
Honestly, Instagram has made pro photographers out of anyone with a smartphone.
I take a pic from a wide angle with a lot of depth of field...basically with a lot of different objects of varying distance and position in the view. Here is the original and the final (sorry, no in betweeners) of my daily from earlier this spring when the ornamental trees were in bloom.
Original:
I zoom in because Instagram photos have to be square. Then I add contrast/sharpness, and then apply the blurry border effect to just the outside of the image, and save. Then I apply it again a little further in. Then once more. You get a range of blur form very blurry at the outside to just a little near the focus point. Bam - looks fancy (ish) and was pretty fast and easy.
It's all depth of field. Most SLRs can do this with exposure control, but you have to go manual. Many of the better lenses will have be marked with the distances of focus. You can do it in Photoshop as well, but I'm old school in that I don't like to use that if I can do it in the camera! 
It seems like I read recently that either a new camera or a service like Instagram had the ability to apply the effect automatically now.
You almost need an SLR/DSLR to do proper depth-of-field tricks, because the aperture on a phone or point-and-shoot camera is too small. (Smaller aperture = larger depth of field, or more things in focus)
I didn't bring a good prime lens with me to the Mustang 50th Birthday Celebration. (Prime lenses cannot zoom and usually have very large aperatures, for smaller depths of field.) With the combination lens I had, this is about the most "out-of-focus" shots you could get:
4cylndrfury wrote:
Honestly, Instagram has made pro photographers out of anyone with a smartphone.
I cannot count the number of ways in which I disagree with this statement, but they are numerous and varied.
02Pilot wrote:
4cylndrfury wrote:
Honestly, Instagram has made pro photographers out of anyone with a smartphone.
I cannot count the number of ways in which I disagree with this statement, but they are numerous and varied.
pretentious people are pretentious...Sarcasm is so funny I forgot to laugh. Lighten up Francis.
