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Nov 04 2009 11 Comments

Tokyo tilt-shift

As well as being tremendously photogenic in a traditional sense, Tokyo also tends to lend itself very nicely to the toy-like tilt-shift technique. The trouble is, the lenses needed for such looks are ludicrously priced to say the least; however, somewhat fortunately a practically free iPhone app produces photos with fairly passable tilt-shift effects — and at the same time diverts some attention away from the camera’s many deficiencies.

A feature I’ve been playing about with for quite some time on my Twitter page, including this temple.

Tokyo tilt-shift

But it now seems time to tackle a train.

Tokyo tilt-shift

Some timber.

Tokyo tilt-shift

And also the track.

Tokyo tilt-shift

Times two.

Tokyo tilt-shift

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  1. James says

    11/4/2009 at 4:15 pm

    Great……. model examples of what the tilt shift can do.

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    • Lee says

      11/4/2009 at 5:12 pm

      James, that’s arguably worse than one of my puns. Although I did, ahem, toy with the idea of mentioning models….

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      • 2nihon says

        11/11/2009 at 6:39 pm

        Haha, I wasn’t going to come up with a pun, but James has me thinking. Anyway. great photos.

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  2. mikesblender says

    11/4/2009 at 5:05 pm

    Damn, just awesome stuff! Much better than the ones I took!

    Btw Lee, what kind of Camera do you use?

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    • Lee says

      11/4/2009 at 5:15 pm

      Don’t know about that Mike, the recent tetrapod one of yours in particular is a cracker.

      I use a Nikon D300. A lot of the time with the Nikkor 85mm f/1.4 attached to it.

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  3. NAZE says

    11/5/2009 at 6:56 am

    Wonderful! Good processing ^_^

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  4. Matt says

    11/5/2009 at 12:54 pm

    Great effects, you must have had some training. Sorry….

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  5. Milligan says

    12/13/2009 at 7:01 am

    The Uniqlo clothing company screen saver has some video clips of Japanese scenes in this style.
    http://www.uniqlo.com/us/
    (The screen saver is at the bottom of the page, in the centre).
    (Uniqlo is a Japanese clothing company)

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