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Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Visual Art They All Look Like Ants

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:22 PM

f3e2/1245270860-img_1255-tiltshift.jpg Slog Tipper Rob in Baltimore points out this website, which has time-lapse video of various spots in Japan. The website apparently has something to do with a clothing retailer, but there are no advertisements in the photography, making it pretty nice to just stare at and zone out for a while.

And Slog tipper Tim introduced me to the Tilt Shift Maker, in which you can turn your photos into tilt-shift style photographs. Of course, a tilt-shift photo maker is kind of a weird thing to do with non-professional photos because most tilt-shift photos are taken from very far away, and people who just dick around with photography generally don't take those far-off landscape-style shots. All of which goes to say: If you're not careful, your photos will just look blurry. As a potential example: To the left is a photo of a deer I took on Orcas Island a couple years ago, and below is a photo from the 2007 Zombie Walk in Fremont:

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pretty blurry - think there were a lot more zombies this year, they set some kind of record.

Posted by Will in Seattle

on June 17, 2009 at 4:11 PM

this is just my camera phone, neat app. http://www.flickr.com/photos/josh_bomb/3…

Posted by Josh Bomb

on June 17, 2009 at 4:49 PM

it's so much fun doing it in photoshop though.

Posted by apres_moi on June 17, 2009 at 4:54 PM

Nick Harmer from Death Cab For Cutie is a tilt-shift fiend and dedicates much of his blog to his own tilt-shift photography.

Check out his stuff here:
http://colonycollapse.wordpress.com/

Posted by famous tilt-shifter on June 17, 2009 at 5:52 PM

I thought tilt shifting had jumped the shark when it was used in the opening credits of Dollhouse.

Posted by stinkbug on June 17, 2009 at 9:41 PM

Those who enjoy the Uniqlo Calendar might also enjoy the Uniqlock, which is more explicitly commercial (the dancers always wear this season's Uniqlo clothes) but mesmerizing nonetheless.

Posted by ridia on June 18, 2009 at 12:59 AM