r/tiltshift

11K archived posts · May 2011 – Sep 2026

Tilt-Shift Photography/Photo manipulation

r/tiltshift

Mostly selective focus photo manipulation Some Tilt-Shift Photography

Created May 6, 2011

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The art of creating shallow depth-of-field pictures, either from digital manipulation, or analogue techniques.

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per u/HawkingRadiation_

Explaining depth of field and focal planes in tilt-shifting.

per u/TripJammer

You've seen a lot of photographs of small things in your life. In these photos, the foreground and background are usually out of focus—a short depth-of-field is a characteristic of the lens and aperture settings in macro photography. So when you see a short depth-of-field image, taken from above, your brain interprets it as something small being photographed from up close.

Other tricks help too, like increasing the vibrancy and saturation to make things like cars and buildings look toylike.

Links

Tilt-Shift Photoshop Tutorial

For all Tilt-Shift photography;

Flickr Tilt-Shift Pool

/r/tiltshiftgifs

Fair use and parody

[TILT-SHIFT 101 by u/Skudworth](http://www.reddit.com/r/tiltshift/comments/2gkol9/tiltshift_101_by_uskudworth/)

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