oooh! (adds app) I've been using Photo360, which has a tilt-shift feature.
Like so:
I believe (and this is a slightly fuzzy memory) that the reason tilt-shift reduces the apparent size of the object in focus is that we are used to looking at things with a greater depth-of-field. By artificially blurring parts of the picture, we make them look like they are out of the depth of field, and we process whatever in the center as Really Tiny. I bet Wikipedia explains it better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography Well, no, not really.
Anyway, it's a neat way to give cameraphone pictures some depth-of-field blurring, since they are normally set to have everything in focus, all the time, and that is not always the best way to take pictures.
Thank you! That makes perfect sense. And your tulip picture is making me smile.
You're so right: that flat, all-in-focus effect is generally useful for illustrative purposes, but really limiting to the expressiveness of an image.
Someone else here recommended Vignette for Android after I posted my flip-flops picture, and it's fantastic! Its tilt-shift is more sophisticated, and it has dozens and dozens of other art-photo options that are really intriguing. Suddenly my phone is seeming like my principal camera.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:39 pm (UTC)Like so:
I believe (and this is a slightly fuzzy memory) that the reason tilt-shift reduces the apparent size of the object in focus is that we are used to looking at things with a greater depth-of-field. By artificially blurring parts of the picture, we make them look like they are out of the depth of field, and we process whatever in the center as Really Tiny. I bet Wikipedia explains it better. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Well, no, not really.
Anyway, it's a neat way to give cameraphone pictures some depth-of-field blurring, since they are normally set to have everything in focus, all the time, and that is not always the best way to take pictures.
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Date: 2011-02-22 08:47 pm (UTC)You're so right: that flat, all-in-focus effect is generally useful for illustrative purposes, but really limiting to the expressiveness of an image.
Someone else here recommended Vignette for Android after I posted my flip-flops picture, and it's fantastic! Its tilt-shift is more sophisticated, and it has dozens and dozens of other art-photo options that are really intriguing. Suddenly my phone is seeming like my principal camera.