The Tilt-shift Tryout

I've been wanting to try out tilt-shift effects during post processing for a while now. A tilt-shift effect is typically applied to miniaturize scenes. To accomplish this, part of the photo is blurred and the colors are over-saturated to make houses/cars/people look like toys. I finally dug out some old pictures, started up Photoshop Elements and tried my luck.

Here are my first attempts:

A pirate ship in the Baltimore Inner Harbor. Granted: it already looked like a toy ship anyways :-)

The skyline of Pittsburgh shortly before sunset.

Harpers Ferry from up high.

An HDR panorama view of the Baltimore Inner Harbor. The fake miniature effect does not come out as well here, since the photo was taken on ground level. I like the picture anyway.

Toy Cars

Ever wondered why your little boy is a car nut? The answer may just be that his dad is a car nut, too. After coming back home, we rediscovered a big box of my toy cars. An excellent chance to try out some macro photos :-)

Here are pictures of some of model cars, size 1:87, from a German company called Praliné.

 

 

The following pictures are shots of two of the bigger model cars, size 1:16. The first two pictures show a Porsche 356, while the third picture shows an S.S. 100 from Jaguar.

The Big Move

Our big move from Maryland to Germany happened last November. While we were very busy in the months before the move and in the first months after the move, expect a couple of new posts soon.

By the way: below is a picture of the plane we took from the U.S. to Germany. 
Photo may differ from actual product :-)