November 1, 2007
Photo of the Day: November 1, 2007

With the surprising lack of Halloween aftermath photos in the DCist pool today, we did a little browsing back through the past week and found this interesting shot by Flickr user chapulin colorado. Using a fake tilt shift, he turned this photo of real life visitors at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History into a diorama you might find in an exhibit of the museum. Tilt-shifting distorts the focus so that viewers believe they're looking at much smaller distances than they really are and requires a fairly expensive tilt-shift lens, but can also be done with the much less expensive lens baby and a little Photoshop magic. The result, we have to admit, is pretty awesome. If you know more about the tilt-shift effect, leave us a comment. EXIF.

No contaban con su astucia!
The effect is pretty easy to create with a gradient quickmask and the lens blur effect in Photoshop. Here is a tutorial.
The effect used on my picture of Meridian Hill
Or, you can get a view camera, and not fake it
;)