As well as being tremendously photogenic in a traditional sense, Tokyo also tends to lend itself very nicely to the toy-like tilt-shift technique. The trouble is, the lenses needed for such looks are ludicrously priced to say the least; however, somewhat fortunately a practically free iPhone app produces photos with fairly passable tilt-shift effects — and at the same time diverts some attention away from the camera’s many deficiencies.
A feature I’ve been playing about with for quite some time on my Twitter page, including this temple.
But it now seems time to tackle a train.
Some timber.
And also the track.
Times two.
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Great……. model examples of what the tilt shift can do.
James, that’s arguably worse than one of my puns. Although I did, ahem, toy with the idea of mentioning models….
Haha, I wasn’t going to come up with a pun, but James has me thinking. Anyway. great photos.
Damn, just awesome stuff! Much better than the ones I took!
Btw Lee, what kind of Camera do you use?
Don’t know about that Mike, the recent tetrapod one of yours in particular is a cracker.
I use a Nikon D300. A lot of the time with the Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 attached to it.
Wonderful! Good processing ^_^
Great effects, you must have had some training. Sorry….
The Uniqlo clothing company screen saver has some video clips of Japanese scenes in this style.
http://www.uniqlo.com/us/
(The screen saver is at the bottom of the page, in the centre).
(Uniqlo is a Japanese clothing company)