Tilt Shift Photography

You will learn how to make a post-processing tilt shift photograph which basically means a picture of a real thing that "looks" like it's a miniature model.

Goals of this assignment:


-Have a tilt shift image of a place of residence (your house, your uncle freds house, your grandpas house, apartment, condo etc, keep it personal not some random celebrity).
-Have a tilt shift image of a school (grade school, middle school, high school, college, your favorite one even if you havn't yet attended).
-Have a tilt shift image of a place of interest / attraction (amusement park, favorite hotel / park / mall, famous building, etc).
-Images captured from bing.com/maps -  birds eye view.
-Images must be captured using print screen and cropped in Picasa 3.
-Tilt shift images made at tiltshiftmaker.com.
-fill out the GRADE

The assignment is to learn how to make a miniature model scene of familar places which is called tilt shift photography. The basic principal is that by blurring the the viewer's gaze may be directed to parts of the image the photographer wishes to emphasize. And this direction causes the lifesized objects appear to be miniature in the photograph.
For the full article please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_miniature_faking


EXAMPLES - This is my neighborhood guess which is my house, also, where I went to college at Biola University, and the Statue of Liberty.





Do all three steps, three times to complete this assignment.

STEP 1: Find the picture.

First go to bing.com/maps then search for the location of interest, start with your house so put your full address don't forget the city and state. Then click on the button "birds eye", on the top you have navigation to zoom out and in and to rotate from four different angles, find one that looks best to you.

Remember you need 3 different locations: 1 house, 1 educational facility, 1 popular attraction / place of interest.

Ideas for Schools:
Stata Center
Arcadia university
Union college
Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium
Encinal High School Alameda, CA
Success Tech Cleveland OH
Ernest R Ellott Elementary
Franklin high school Portland
Cleveland high school Portland
Madison high school Portland
Benson high school Portland
Jefferson high school Portland

Ideas for popular attractions:

Pittock Mansion
Oaks Park
World Forestry Center
OMSI
Oregon State Capitol
Disneyland
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Disneyworld
Eiffle Tower, France
Colossem Rome
RMS Queen Mary
Sydney Opera House
Las Vegas
Lisbon, Portugal
Basilica di San Pietro, Vatica
Statue of Liberty
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Reichstag, Germany
Alcatraz
Washington Monument
Times Square
Pearl Harbor
Trafalgar Square, England
Niagara Falls
Hollywood Sign
Universal studios, Universal city, CA
Sea World, San Diego
Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre, Paris
Pleasure Beach, UK
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida
Grauman’s Chinese Theater
The London Eye, UK
Navy Pier
Temple Square
Waikiki Beach
Myrtle beach
Oregon Zoo
Mount Rushmore
Bosque de la Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Gravensteen
Guimaraes Castle

STEP 2: Capturing the image (say cheese).
In most all computers you have the abililty to take a snapshot of whatever the screen displays by pressing the "prt scrn" key which is to the right of the "f12" key in the top right of the keyboard.


Once it has taken the picture it has the picture in the clipboard you need to put (paste) the picture into an image editing program (like GIMP, Photoshop, Paint, Inkscape, or today we will be using Picasa 3).


1. Launch the application Picasa 3 (start > programs > Picasa 3...) get past all the startup popups.
2. Go to the Bing Birds Eye View and press the prt scrn key, you should see Picasa 3 automatically get and import your screen capture for you.
3. In Picasa 3, locate the screen capture, use the Crop tool to keep only the image part of the screen, not all the extra browser buttons and stuff.
4. In Picasa 3, File > Save As, location desktop.*
*If you wanted to keep the file for another day you could save it to your Y drive, but because it is not yet completed, saving to to the desktop and letting it auto-delete as you logoff is fine.

STEP 3: Make it at tiltshiftmaker.com
Follow the directions provided on the website.
Remember to "get full size" and then "click here to download" and save the file to your Y drive.

THE GRADE

REMEMBER
SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN, CROP THE IMAGES TO THE BIGGEST SIZE YOU CAN WHILE NOT SHOWING WEBSITE STUFF, WHEN YOU NEED HELP ASK(raise your hand) but FIRST re-read the assignment guidelines.

Student Work: