![]() ![]() To get a realistic effect you shouldn't just apply a blur filter and be done with it, there are a few more steps that you can complete relatively quickly, to make your photo stand out from the crowd. Here, I wanted to effect this night scene of Japan, so I've taken a relatively close crop to start work on it. Preferably, a top-down or aerial view onto a street or two will make for the best tilt-shift effect because it'll look like toys on a tabletop, displaying a good amount of blur and a strong section of in-focus parts. You don't want to get too close to your scene either. Often that small slice of focus ends up disappearing in the menagerie of a wider view, so a relatively close crop will let this effect stand out more. But you have to choose the right photo.Ī huge vista makes it difficult to control the toy town look. By using image editing software to create the effect you can even revisit old photos that weren't taken on a tilt-shift lens and apply the effect there, too. Well, you can make the same effect surprisingly easily in Photoshop CC. For the toy town effect we would reduce the depth of field to a small sliver of focus to make a large scene appear very small.īut what if you don't have a tilt-shift lens? Though they're versatile and usually fantastic lenses, they're rather expensive and not many photographers carry one in their kit bag at all times. The easiest way to achieve this look is with a tilt-shift lens where the photographer can alter the plane of focus using the lens' ability to shift the glass and thereby either extending the depth of field or drastically reducing it. The toy town effect is a powerful edit that transforms standard photos into what appear to be miniature worlds. ![]()
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