Paris en miniature
Via The Agitator, I found a great Photoshop tutorial that lets you fake the tilt-shift miniaturization look without an expensive lens for your camera. I played around with a couple of my Paris pictures from last October’s visit and got some pretty cool results.
Mini Musée d’Orsay on top, with the original image below:
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a trip to Paris without a visit to the Eiffel tower:
Fun! I’ll try to get a few decent shots in Toronto next weekend with this technique in mind.
hey – fyi – there is a bunch of dead space between post and pics – i think. at least on my 2 computers…
Comment by claudia — August 26, 2007 @ 3:38 pm
Weird. It’s not showing up that way on either of the computers here, either in Safari or Firefox. You’re using Internet Explorer, I’ll bet. Not sure what to do about it, other than skipping over this post entirely, sorry — I know nothing about programming for other browsers. (Honestly, I know nothing about programming, period.)
Comment by Amy — August 26, 2007 @ 3:58 pm
yup – i just did the test
perfect in firefox
totally screwed in IE
Comment by claudia — August 26, 2007 @ 4:45 pm
Mystery solved! Thanks for sleuthing it out for me.
Comment by Amy — August 26, 2007 @ 6:53 pm
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