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Life-size Scale Model
Life-size Scale Model
Rob O


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Challenge: Free Study 2007-04 (Expert Editing*)
Camera: Canon EOS-20D
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM
Location: Tempe, AZ
Date: Apr 30, 2007
Aperture: f/11
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/125
Galleries: Cityscape, Digital Art
Date Uploaded: Apr 30, 2007

 Went hiking and decided to have some fun with the tilt/shift effect using Photoshop. This is a composite image, combining a scene from the heart of old town Tempe, AZ with the capture of a train crossing Tempe Town Lake nearby.

Both shots were taken from essentially the same vantage point atop "A Mountain" just north of ASU campus.

After RAW conversion for each I made duplicate layer in PS, applied Lens Blur for tilt/shift effect using a gradient mask used to selectively feather the out of focus bit from the center of the image out (similar to macro effect on not-so macro shot). I then combined the two images using masks to blend them.

Statistics
Place: 444 out of 573
Avg (all users): 5.1790
Avg (commenters): 6.8000
Avg (participants): 5.0273
Avg (non-participants): 5.5000
Views since voting: 1269
Views during voting: 233
Votes: 162
Comments: 13
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 05/14/2007 11:47:45 AM
One thing that might improve this already great image is to bring the church steeple and tower (on left side) back into sharp focus. They are the same distance from the viewer as the buildings in focus, but because they sit higher in the image, were chopped out of focus the horizontal focus band. Great use of the "fake model town" trick!
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 05/08/2007 03:20:40 PM
I was one of your 9s - I think that you were robbed!
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
05/07/2007 08:08:29 PM
I want to give this technique a try myself, but haven't yet got around to it. Nicely done - how on earth did you take such a shot and not have captured any people in it? If they're there I haven't spotted them yet, or maybe you cloned them out. :)
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 05/04/2007 04:56:00 PM
Very nicely done. I had the same idea around the middle of the month, but I never got the chance to get to a good location. This is a perfect spot for this effect.
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 05/04/2007 12:37:44 PM
Really cool. I assume this is an actual town using a certain blur effect? If so, one of the better examples I have seen.
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 05/04/2007 10:53:47 AM
Beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice was the first thing entering my mind, cool 6/10
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 05/03/2007 11:36:22 PM
I always find this degauss technique disturbing sometimes. Still well seen picture. Like the fact that you waited for the train. Good contrast. Highly rated.
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 05/03/2007 05:22:42 PM
I gotta try this one day. Does look like a model.9
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 05/02/2007 04:58:45 PM
great shot, i like the dof and the focus, although somewhat OOF, on the town!
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 05/01/2007 10:43:25 PM
DOF too shallow. Lost a lot of detail like the train which looks like it must be really cool.
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 05/01/2007 03:47:03 PM
Love this effect. You've nailed it on this one.
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 05/01/2007 03:45:35 PM
I keep meaning to try this technique, it's so effective. Well done, looks good :)
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 05/01/2007 11:29:13 AM
I love these types of pictures. You've done it really well.
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