Tilt-Shift photography comes to the iPhone and iTouch
Tilt Shift photography is making it’s way into art galleries all over the world, and now onto the iPhone. TiltShift is a type of photography that essentially allows you to take a picture and make the surroundings look like tiny models. For instance a picture of building with little miniature people moving outside.
The idea is pretty simple and is typically achieved in regular photography by using a specific tilt-shift lens, which keeps both items up close, and far away in focus at the same time. Since there is no blurring in the photograph our eyes automatically think the smaller items in the picture are miniature rather than simply in focus.
Using tilt-shift lens is quite the ordeal, and if you don’t know what you’re doing (or even if you do) can border on being down right impossible. The result is that you don’t exactly see much of the photography being done by amateurs (or professionals for that matter) making the pictures you do see seem reasonably fantastic.
One company has decided to make taking the photos a little (and by little we mean a lot) easier by creating an application that does the effect for you to a regular picture without the help of a lens.
TitlShift lets you select a portion of a particular photograph you want to keep in focus and then feather out the edges of that section. The application adds a lens blurt to the picture, and like magic you have a pretty decent looking Tilt-Shift photograph.
The application is available now for purchase from the iTunes application store. While slightly less fun- iTouch owners can get in on the fun by using some photos that are included with the application, or by working with any additional photos they currently have stored on their iTouch.
[via Wired]
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