This is a technique called "tilt shift photography." There are tilt shift lenses you can buy to create this effect, but a cheaper way to do it is to use photoshop. Tilt shift photography is a way to make real life appear to be a miniature model. It's best to take a photo from a high place and shooting down. Trains, automobiles and people work better as the subject. You can check out the tutorial here.



I think the fact that I don't show up in the reflection of this bubble makes this photo unique. I was in every other bubble reflection except this one.

Odds and Ends

I've been out with my camera lately just driving around town, here are some of my favorites....

I won 2nd place in a local photo contest with this one, the title of the contest was "reflections"








I couldn't decide which I liked better, the black and white or the color version so I'm posting both.

My latest baby photo shoots....

Twins!! These two were adorable and fun - especially because they were so sleepy.

Vintage Photography

Here's a really neat method that I've never used before. One of my friends brought her Kodak Duaflex camera with her, it's an antique and has a large view finder.



I took my digital camera, zoomed in as much as I could and then pointed it at the Kodak's viewfinder (while pointing the Kodak at my subject). It creates this really neat effect.....


Technically, these pictures would all be in black and white or maybe sepia if I wanted it to look legit, but these beautiful little girls had orange dresses and I just loved them. Can you blame me?

Won my first local photo contest

The topic was "composite images" where I'm suppose to combine 2 images. Normally I get slaughtered with these contests, but this was something I could do. It's my first time winning so I'm pretty excited.

"Giant in the park"

Compositing

I learned how to do this in CS4 (I've been combining images for years, but learning to do it in photoshop saves a considerable amount of time). Compositing is where you combine 2 images to make 1. I took the moon from another photo, then copied and pasted it over the bridge. I pasted a second one into the water, flipped it so it would be a proper mirror reflection and used motion blur so it would look like the other reflections in the water. Pretty swell trick!

Angel Maria

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In this photo, there were a lot of tubes in the abdomen, but I used used a cloning tool and paintbrush to eliminate them. It doesn't look as natural as I was hoping, but I'm still perfecting this one (it's my rough draft).

The best gift

Textures and Layers

With some tutorials and lots of fiddling around, I have figured out how to use layers to my advantage. I still have a lot to learn, but the basics will afford me hours of fun.

Latest Photo Shoots

I've been busy so I'm going to include a few recent favorites.





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