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Rob Huntley > Demo Slide 4 By selecting the standard editing tool, the red mask has disappeared to be replaced by two horizontal lines of "marching ants" indicating the selected area. The area above and below the lines will be put totally out of focus by our next steps. The area between the lines will have a focus gradient outwards from the centre. From the top menu select "Filter" (green circle) and from the drop-down menu select "Blur", then "Lens Blur". © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > Demo Slide 3 This red mask is the area which will be preserved in subsequent steps that we take to throw the background and foreground out of focus. The "gradient" ensures that the most central area of the band will be the most sharp, gradually losing focus towards the edges. At this point select the standard editing tool indicated by the green circle on the left-hand-side. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > Demo Slide 2 Imagine a horizontal zone in the picture where you would like to retain sharpness. I am selecting the foreground passenger trains to be the main subject in this demo, but you could have selected the freight trains in the distance. The top green arrow indicates where I have initially placed the cursor on the roof of the red car. You can see a thin grey line which I have drawn to the bottom green arrow. This line indicates 1/2 of the height of the gradient zone (the bottom half), from the sharpest point at the top to the least sharp point at the bottom. The top half will simply be mirrored above the top green arrow so you will end up with a "reflective gradient" both upwards and downwards from the top green arrow. If this is confusing, take note of where the top green arrow is on the roof of the red car, then take a peek at the next slide and note where the roof of the red car is, then come back. Reread this and hopefully you will better understand. As soon as you release the mouse button after drawing this gradient line, you will get a red band of gradient mask as shown in the next slide. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > Demo Slide 1 To demonstrate the creation of a fake tilt-shift miniature I'm using an image that any photographer might have taken without the assistance of aerial photography. It was taken in Vancouver, British Columbia at the harbour port. Rail lines and trains are particularly good for this technique. Most of us have seen model railroads before and the result of miniaturizing this scene should give the sense that the shot was taken in the basement of a train-a-holic. I have an older version of PhotoShop, PhotoShop CS. I hope you can convert these instructions to your software and version. After loading A COPY of the picture into PhotoShop, click on the "Quick Mask" indicated by the bottom green circle on the left-hand-side. Then click on the gradient tool, the middle circle. After clicking the gradient tool you will see 5 options for this tool presented at the top and you should select the 4th one which is "Reflective Gradient". © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > This covered bridge is found on Chemin Cross Loop south of Wakefield, Québec. It is not to be confused with the larger covered bridge just to the north of Wakefield. Again, the foreground and background have been blurred to shorten the apparent depth of field and the red colour of the bridge has been saturated to the point of synthetic toy look-alike. View the original aerial photograph. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > This is a "Tiny Town" version of the Aberdeen Pavilion at Lansdowne Park in Ottawa, Ontario. It is a heritage building also known as the "Cattle Castle" as a consequence of livestock fairs being held there. View the original aerial photograph. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > This is a fake tilt-shift of the former EB Eddy mill on the Ottawa River in Ottawa, Ontario. Again, the original low level aerial picture was obtained from a remote-controlled camera suspended below a kite. The orientation of the wall face of the mill being roughly the same distance from the camera makes it an ideal subject for retaining the focus of the whole building while throwing the rest of the picture out of focus. View the original aerial photograph. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > This is a fake tilt-shift of the Champlain Bridge over the Ottawa River between Ottawa, Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec. This is a unique angle of the bridge, obtained through Kite Aerial Photography (KAP). Note how just a few cars and the surrounding bridge and lamp posts are kept in focus while the foreground and background are out of focus. View the original aerial photograph. © Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > This red car is in a roundabout (traffic circle) in Conwy, Wales. The shot was taken from the wall of Conwy Castle adjacent to the road. View the original photograph. © Rob Huntley
Demo Slide 4

By selecting the standard editing tool, the red mask has disappeared to be replaced by two horizontal lines of "marching ants" indicating the selected area. The area above and below the lines will be put totally out of focus by our next steps. The area between the lines will have a focus gradient outwards from the centre.

From the top menu select "Filter" (green circle) and from the drop-down menu select "Blur", then "Lens Blur".

© Rob Huntley
Rob Huntley > Demo Slide 4 By selecting the standard editing tool, the red mask has disappeared to be replaced by two horizontal lines of "marching ants" indicating the selected area. The area above and below the lines will be put totally out of focus by our next steps. The area between the lines will have a focus gradient outwards from the centre. From the top menu select "Filter" (green circle) and from the drop-down menu select "Blur", then "Lens Blur". © Rob Huntley
Demo Slide 4

By selecting the standard editing tool, the red mask has disappeared to be replaced by two horizontal lines of "marching ants" indicating the selected area. The area above and below the lines will be put totally out of focus by our next steps. The area between the lines will have a focus gradient outwards from the centre.

From the top menu select "Filter" (green circle) and from the drop-down menu select "Blur", then "Lens Blur".

© Rob Huntley
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