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Aug 27 2010 10 Comments

Tokyo tilt-shift #3

For me at least, faffing about with the iPhone’s TiltShift Generator app never fails to fascinate, and although the results can be more than a little mixed, the better ones undoubtedly offer a different take on a topic — such as, for example, the fairly recently featured Kyotei boat racing stadium, photos of which, when fiddled about with for a few minutes, look really rather fetching.

Tokyo tilt-shift

Tokyo tilt-shift

Tokyo tilt-shift

Other contests can take on a slightly different feel too. Like the daily effort to beat other drivers.

Tokyo tilt-shift

Or simply others’ drives.

Tokyo tilt-shift

Plus there is also the sad sight of homeless ‘homes’ by the river.

Tokyo tilt-shift

And finally, the considerably more calming find of fishermen perched around a pond.

Tokyo tilt-shift

As always, some of these pictures have been previously posted at Tokyotimes’s Posterous, where all my iPhone photos, whether tilt-shift or otherwise, are posted.

Categorized: Photography, Sports

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Comments

  1. Matt says

    8/27/2010 at 1:42 pm

    The first race ones have a really unusual feel to them. They almost look like pictures of models. Love them.

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    • Lee says

      8/27/2010 at 5:27 pm

      Thanks Matt! I enjoy playing about with these, so I’m glad you like them.

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  2. Lori says

    8/27/2010 at 1:48 pm

    I agree with Matt. I had to look twice to make sure they were real. Great job and keep it up!

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    • Lee says

      8/27/2010 at 5:28 pm

      Cheers Lori! Happy to hear you like them.

      Reply
  3. Lizzy says

    8/27/2010 at 11:26 pm

    That’s exactly what I was going to say! lol They look like pictures of models. It’s really kind of disorienting. I like ’em, though. 🙂

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  4. CORRADO says

    8/27/2010 at 11:27 pm

    You kidding? I love that app, I use it every time I’m in a tall building or bridge, or even in a soccer stadium. Your pics are great, the locations are perfect. Keep up the good work.

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    • Lee says

      8/29/2010 at 4:35 pm

      Thanks! That’s exactly what I’m like, anywhere relatively high up and I immediately think of getting a tilt-shift image.

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  5. Tore Sinding Bekkedal says

    8/30/2010 at 12:53 pm

    Oh, no! Please, not the “fake tilt-shift” effect! You have been taking so many absolutely great photos for so long, and now you use the fake tilt-shift effect? If you were in Norway I’d be begging for you to borrow my Sinar Norma for a while so you wouldn’t have to use the fake tilt-shift effect.

    (OK, I’ve got a thing against that effect. Especially when combined with eye-stabbing ultra-high saturation and contrast, and taken on a cellphone. A shame, too: The traffic one would actually have been a cool picture with a real tilt-shift effect.)

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    • Lee says

      8/30/2010 at 5:59 pm

      Unfortunately I don’t have the money, or at least a big enough need, to buy a proper tilt-shift lens, but I’d love to give one a go. Any chance of you visiting Tokyo in the near future and giving me a loan of your Sinar Norma?!

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  6. christoff says

    8/15/2011 at 2:02 pm

    I love the sight and there are lots of great photos. I think the tilt shift lens is kind of over played these days.

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