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TILT-SHIFT IT

Thursday, January 21st, 2010

How do you make a mundane insurance commercial instantly interesting?

Have President Palmer narrate it?

Well ya, but besides that…

TILT-SHIFT PHOTOGRAPHY!

Agreed! Although tilt-shift photography is nothing new, it’s been popping up here and there over the past few years, so we all knew it was only a matter of time before a random car insurance company picked it up, right? Right!? Maybe not, but it sure does make 30 seconds of nothing interesting to look at.

If you’re unfamiliar with the technique, it basically creates the optical illusion of a miniature scene by focussing on the middle part and blurring everything else. Although real tilt-shift lenses are quite expensive, you can fake the effect by either making a homemade lens or better yet, by Photoshopping it.

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WORK: BRETT BEYER

Thursday, October 8th, 2009



Images from Brett Beyer’s New Amsterdam project. Each image is shot in lower Manhattan with a Holga or a Zeiss Nettar camera, which are used specifically for their flaws, light leaks, and all-around non-digital awesomeness. Beyer overlaps the exposures within each camera by manually advancing the film.  No Photoshop used here:

“These errors,” he says, “allow chance into the process and give me results I never would have intentionally gotten.”

I really need to get my hands on an Holga — you just can’t recreate something like this digitally. Anyone own one?  Do you recommend?  Feel free to share your images in the comments.  More quotes and info at Wired.

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