Comments on: Tilt-shift videos

Tilt-shift videos

b. — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:40:59 -0800

We have already seen here tilt-shift still photographs. Here come real life miniatures videos: beach , Sydney harbor, Harrowdown Hill music video, Spanish neighborhood, bridges in Grand Rapids, cars in Matewan, WV, Multnomah Falls, train station in Bern. [via]

By: mewithoutyou

mewithoutyou — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:19:34 -0800

These are really cool. In a weird way, they remind me of Gumby episodes.

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:32:51 -0800

It puts us in perspective.

By: stargell

stargell — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:33:54 -0800

So you're telling me Thomas the Tank Engine is . . . real?

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:35:37 -0800

Maybe I'm weird, but ever since I heard of this photographic trick I've wanted to use it as an adjective*. As in, "this post is tilt-shift awesome." And it is, by the way. * Would it be an adjective? I guess it's in the same distinguished class as "hella" or "full-on", which I can't quite place either.

By: amyms

amyms — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:38:37 -0800

"this post is tilt-shift awesome."... Would it be an adjective? It would be an adverb (modifying an adjective). /geek

By: Kickstart70

Kickstart70 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:43:05 -0800

Love this. I played with tilt-shifting some of my photos a while back and it's not a hard process once you get the 'eye' for it. Really just depends on having the right photo/video.

By: aGee

aGee — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 22:56:21 -0800

Really just depends on having the right photo/video. Thats very true. Out of the many pictures I've taken, only one has been a good candidate for tilt-shift conversion These are some great videos. Thanks for sharing!

By: pyramid termite

pyramid termite — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:09:09 -0800

bridges in Grand Rapids it's really weird watching a place i know look like that

By: Salvor Hardin

Salvor Hardin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:34:56 -0800

This may be the best thing ever.

By: Mr_Zero

Mr_Zero — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:35:51 -0800

It puts us in perspective. Not really. This puts us in perspective.

By: Salvor Hardin

Salvor Hardin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:56:34 -0800

That is, most of them were ok, but the Sydney harbor ones could be tied for the best thing ever.

By: josephtate

josephtate — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:03:49 -0800

I've wondered how the Harrowdown Hill video was done. Thanks for posting this, not just for Harrowdown Hill, but for the technique--fascinating.

By: maxwelton

maxwelton — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:09:41 -0800

I agree with Salvor, the Sydney Harbor ones were great. I think this technique definitely calls for a stationary, tripod-mounted camera. Camera motion sorta ruins the effect.

By: BrianBoyko

BrianBoyko — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:54:38 -0800

About the tilt-shift: You can tilt-shift just about any video with a plug-in... I believe most of these were probably made using Magic Bullet.

By: oxidizer

oxidizer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:04:09 -0800

*Snore* Not to knock the post, but to me "gimmicky" would be the adjective that best describes this kind of photography. I file this in the same place as HDR images: Highly creative acts that broke new ground visually have quickly devolved into their own cliches by the seemingly endless number of people who repeat the technique ad nauseam.

By: effbot

effbot — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:19:29 -0800

You can tilt-shift just about any video with a plug-in... I believe most of these were probably made using Magic Bullet. You can simulate the effect in just about any video. Chances are that just about any video will look better if you shoot it with real tilt-shift optics. (The sydney videos by Keith Loutit is done in camera, some others were done in post. I sure know which ones I think look better...)

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:09:00 -0800

Sydney HarboUr (it's a proper noun. there is no other way to spell it)

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:10:17 -0800

these are good, by the way.

By: DU

DU — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 03:37:11 -0800

From the comments: I miss G-rad so much First of all, Grand Rapids is about 1/100th as cool as it would need to be to even be called "G-rad" ironically. Second of all, what pathetic backwater are you living in that fails to provide something that you were getting in Grand Rapids? Cool video though.

By: damo

damo — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 05:39:11 -0800

All these need is a David Attenborough narration.

By: swift

swift — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:01:14 -0800

Perhaps these were shot with the new HD-video-shooting DSLR's.

By: rmmcclay

rmmcclay — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:27:18 -0800

I've done a few pseudo tilt-shifts with Photoshop. One of the main tips is that the angle of the shot is from above looking down; like looking down at a model set. I really loved the Sydney Harbour clip.

By: JBennett

JBennett — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 06:35:09 -0800

What fun videos. I was going to say it looked like Davey & Goliath.

By: kcds

kcds — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:35:53 -0800

So when you say "real life miniatures videos", even though these were very cool, I was expecting something more like this.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:56:57 -0800

I was wondering how they would do such a thing until I saw that there was little to no camera movement in any of these videos. Duh. Though I'm less impressed.

By: From Bklyn

From Bklyn — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:21:11 -0800

The Sydney Harbour clip(s) had the kids in stitches. Nice, thanks.

By: Onanist

Onanist — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:56:00 -0800

Way cool. Loved the Sydney vids and their nicely selected music. Thanks!

By: b.

b. — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:59:44 -0800

Eideteker: "Harrowdown Hill" clip has a lot of camera movement (helicopter shots). Jim Clark, the effect creator, explains a bit about the process in the second link (SmallGantics). It was a lot of work: "8 Smallgantic shots were accomplished by a team of 6 full time compositers over a grueling 3 week period"

By: Solon and Thanks

Solon and Thanks — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:13:18 -0800

Not really. This puts us in perspective. Yes, in a literal sense. I don't know if other people have this problem, but photos like that are almost meaningless to my brain, which can't seem to comprehend the scale. The tilt-shift worked better at tricking me into seeing us as tiny, tiny, tiny.

By: GalaxieFiveHundred

GalaxieFiveHundred — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:16:03 -0800

Thanks for this post. I can't get enough of the tilt-shift effect. I have a toy camera that's only sharp in the very middle of the image and it gives a lot of pictures a sort of tilt-shift effect. It's great every time. I've seen that eagle from Harrowdown Hill before...ah, yes. It was Pan with Us.

By: cirocco

cirocco — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:16:50 -0800

All these need is a David Attenborough narration. "Heah we see a variety of ships navigating Sydney Harbour. They appeah very tiny indeed!"

By: asok

asok — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:56:38 -0800

Vimeo jumps for me. Still, will forward to family.