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    Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    04/25/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Any volunteers to do some 24 Hours Of LeMons tilt-shifts?
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    04/25/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    I think Jalopnik should approach a die cast manufacturer (maybe Jada?) and develop their own special line of Jalopnik die casts. Replicated DOTS, LeMons, English Russia, personal rides of Jalop Nation, and a limited edition "what Ray drove to his reunion" mystery cloaked in a sealed package.


    I would buy every single one.

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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    And this one looks amazingly real, doesn't it?


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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Oh wait...


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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Goddamn, there is some crazy stuff out there if you search "tilt-shift": check out this adorable building on fire!



    Also, someone decided to be a smartass and do their interpretation of "tilt, shift":


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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/25/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: In the name of science, I will now personally replicate this man's interpretation of "tilt, shift" in order to further my ability to explain exactly the differences between his "method" and the generally accepted goings-about.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    @Strooooolling the Jalopplayer: If I had a GT3 RS and huge snowbanks, I would love to do it too. But seriously, it's gotta take some balls to get ass-end-outy in a rear-engined car.
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/25/09

    @Leeeeena the Jalopchick: Well, good thing I have a couple of those! Huge snowbanks, I mean. Wait, no I don't. What were we talking about, again? Getting ass-end-outy. I'm always down for that.


    ...is that what stream-of-consciousness feels like?

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    04/25/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    It's a small world, after all.
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    Image of JoshRogan JoshRogan
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Here is one that I did from a photo I took at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway museum:



    It looks more toy-like in the larger version. The padding in the Arie Luyendyk car looks like molded plastic that a model maker forgot to paint.


    [www.flickr.com]

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/24/09

    @JoshRogan: That is bitchin'.
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    Image of Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. . Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    I tried my hand at this, but my cheapo-lousy camera + horrible photo skills weren't conducive to the best result.


    Plus I need to finish illegally torrenting Photoshop. . .


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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    @Baron Schm Von Shamwoüzen memes ur memes: Looks pretty good, but if you want to go for the true tilt-shift effect, you have to blur the sides too so it's not an entire horizontal band of focused area. Try to pick one car or object and blur progressively more the further you get away from it. It also really enhances the effect to turn up the color saturation.


    Hope you've finished getting Photoshop by now - this stuff is fun to mess with!

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    Image of .357 .357
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Great. I really thought that the cars were toys at first.
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    The lenses to do this properly are awesome looking. Crazy expensive though... Yet another hobby I am into and can't afford...


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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    04/24/09

    @Scandinavian flick: Anti hotlinking? I know I formatted that right this time...


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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/24/09

    @Scandinavian flick: Yet another hobby I am into and can't afford...


    The story of my life, brother.

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    Image of bzr bzr
    04/25/09

    @A kabutolling player: For me, that hobby is called "working on cars and motorcycles."


    Le Sigh...

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/25/09

    @bzr - more like carbon ASSprint AMIRITE GUIZ: Luckily my current hobby of "fix up a Z32" is not funded by me!
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    Image of Dhillaz 2.0 Dhillaz 2.0
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Even better in video.



    + Watch video
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    Image of Mobius Mobius
    04/24/09

    @Dhillaz: The Shanghai Toy Fair featured just now?
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    Image of littleYodaPickup littleYodaPickup
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    The traffic scenes remind me of those plastic mats they used to sell with streets and neighborhoods printed on them where you could play with your matchbox cars. Wonder if they still sell those...
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    Image of Scandinavian Flick Scandinavian Flick
    04/24/09

    @littleYodaPickup: I LOVE those! I used to make my own as a kid out of sheets of cardboards and permanent marker, or snow scenes pressed into large blocks of foam.


    Remember the folding plastic micro machine kits that you could piece together?


    To answer your question, yes, they are still available at toy stores.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    04/24/09

    @Scandinavian flick and littleYodaPickup: I want to hug you guys.


    Such is the childhood of a Jalop.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/24/09

    @littleYodaPickup: Oh! I had one of those, only it was made of cloth.


    I don't know how it was always more enjoyable than those Hot Wheels sets that launched your car around a loop and into your sister, but it was, every time.

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    04/24/09

    @A kabutolling player: I had an area rug that depicted a cityscape. Identical to this one, IIRC:
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/25/09

    @Tomsk: Certified Homemade Supercar Tester: Ooh, that looks very familiar!
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    04/25/09

    @Tomsk: Certified Homemade Supercar Tester: Wow, roundabouts. That must be a European city, cause we don't have two roundabouts in the entire united states.
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    Image of bzr bzr
    04/25/09

    @Tomsk: Certified Homemade Supercar Tester: Yeah, I totally had one of those! They were perfectly-sized for my Hot Wheels cars, and I used to make them go on car chases and crash into each other and all the stuff that a 12-year old petrolhead would do in the first place. Thanks for bringing back the memories.
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    Image of Murilee Martin Murilee Martin
    04/25/09

    @philibuster: Fair number of them in Berkeley.
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    Image of PatFromGundo PatFromGundo
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Something about these images made me feel very lonely and sad. I'm serious. I have no explanation for this.
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    Image of vr6john vr6john
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    If you google tilt shift instructions for photoshop you can do this at home too...Couple of filters applied, pretty simple...getting to be overused like HDR did...Adult Swim has been pimping similar stuff in their bumps. Neat to look at still...
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    Image of philibuster philibuster
    04/24/09

    @vr6john: I hate faked TS photography. It's never as good.
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    Image of vr6john vr6john
    04/24/09

    @vr6john: Hamster problem...how did I respond to undefined when it was philibuster
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/26/09

    @vr6john: Very nice!


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    Image of Skunky Skunky
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    It doesn't take much to turn a Miata into an "adorable little toy."
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    @Skunky: Haha, I was going to point that out too. Even at 1:1 scale, I wanna hug them every time I see them. Tilt-shift just puts it into the category of hyper-cute.
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    Image of UDMan UDMan
    04/24/09

    In reply to Turning Cars Into Toys: Tilt-Shift Photography Magic
    Remember this? Tilt Shift in video format:

    [www.vimeo.com]
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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    04/24/09

    @UDMan: I remember that well. Whoever decided to combine tilt shift with time lapse to make it really look like model animation is a brilliant man.
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    Image of Leeeeena the Jalopchick Leeeeena the Jalopchick
    04/25/09

    @UDMan: Dammit! Note to self: check all comment threads first before posting, dummy.
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