Miniature Buckeyes

    Perfect diversion for a Friday afternoon.

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    1. ★

      mrapplegate, SamEllison, miwaza, Jack Pearce, and 57 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. mrapplegate (88 months ago | reply)

      Love it. Great shot!

    3. KDern (88 months ago | reply)

      Fabulous

    4. ~Chels~ (88 months ago | reply)

      i tried to do this, but i have elements 4.0 so i can't , do you know how to do it on elements?

    5. Ed from Ohio (88 months ago | reply)

      This was done in Elements. Mine are definitely quick and dirty jobs, and all I'm doing is selecting a small area by hand, making a new layer, then running a gaussian blur filter, increasing the blur as I move away from the focal point. I haven't taken the time to learn how to use the gradient mask feature, which Elements has too.

    6. ChrisMac09 (88 months ago | reply)

      As much as I hate Ohio State (I'm a Michigan fan - that's right), that is a great picture. The effect makes it look almost surreal.

    7. Lord Desman (88 months ago | reply)

      Hi, kandy! I'm lorddesman.

    8. .argolino [deleted] (88 months ago | reply)

      compliments!!! usually tiltshifts don't get me... but this one is great!!!

    9. P.Mac (88 months ago | reply)

      one of the very best

    10. ~Chels~ (88 months ago | reply)

      ok thanks!

    11. KewlGrrl (88 months ago | reply)

      Go Buckeyes...Go Big Red...cool mini series...great job...k

    12. dsevilla (87 months ago | reply)

      Hahaha, Ed, that one is great! They seem like people from lilliput (well, or near it) carrying flags :) Very well done.

      diego.

    13. Carrie Patterson (87 months ago | reply)

      O-H-I-O

      got to love the buckeyes!

    14. WisDoc (87 months ago | reply)

      Very cool shot! As a Wisconsin fan, I will be rooting for OSU to do well in the NCAA tournament - go Big Ten!

    15. earth2marsh (87 months ago | reply)

      great subject choice for a tilt-shift! well done.

    16. Esther17 (87 months ago | reply)

      They're so teeny! lol

    17. Ed from Ohio (87 months ago | reply)

      Thanks everyone! Go Bucks!!

    18. Brian in Cleveland (87 months ago | reply)

      This is very near perfect!
      go bucks yada yada ;-)

    19. Dan P. B. (87 months ago | reply)

      really great job on this!

    20. Steve and Marne (83 months ago | reply)

      Outstanding shot, Go Bucks!!!!

    21. ｐｒｋｂｋｒ (82 months ago | reply)

      great tilt-shift. i feel like this technique works really well with stadium/sports images. nicely done.

    22. Eric G. Wiley (79 months ago | reply)

      Love it. OSU vs. Michigan eve and I found the pic I was looking for to put me in the spirit. At the office. At 9am...

    23. Andy Sheridan (79 months ago | reply)

      Class shot...the blur effect really makes it.
      Strange the way it affects the scale in this way. Nice one.

    24. Shinya Daniel (76 months ago | reply)

      Cute shot!!

    25. recyclethis (68 months ago | reply)

      Neat photo. It makes me think, what is it about a photo of a minature that makes it not look real. Is it the fact that, given the angle of view you'd have to shoot with a f/.25 lens to get that depth of field? Looking at it from a small version of a photo you can tell it isn't real, but there isn't enough pixels to decern any telling details. Is the light too even, even for an overcast day? So why does a photo still look like its taken of a model? I'm sure the people who made LOTR must know. Or maybe this photo is of a real stadium, and I'm just crazy.

    26. recyclethis (68 months ago | reply)

      A fav just for making me look at it so long.

    27. Ed from Ohio (68 months ago | reply)

      Its a real stadium, and I faked a tilt-shift effect with Photoshop by selectively blurring the foreground and background. And boosting saturation to give it a model-like color effect. Glad it was fun to puzzle over--its not one of the best tilt shift fakes out there---the group tiltshift miniature fakes has some amazing examples, or you could hunt for some in my favorites.

    28. tsh2115 is moving to zenfolio [deleted] (62 months ago | reply)

      Your photo is outstanding, please join and add you photo to:
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    29. Theohiosource (48 months ago | reply)

      this is fantastic

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