{"id":239,"date":"2010-03-01T06:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/03\/01\/100301_moretiltshift\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T19:20:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:20:26","slug":"100301_moretiltshift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/01\/100301_moretiltshift\/","title":{"rendered":"More Tilt-Shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perceptive Gazette readers will recall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2009\/12\/091205-tiltshift.html\">this short post<\/a> about tilt shift photography, a technique that seems to be gaining in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite commercial applications of the technique is the following Allstate Insurance TV ad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oK4nCqddc18\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a winsome effect, turning a real life scene into something toy-like. But, as nice as it is, it&#8217;s child&#8217;s play compared to this (link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/02\/28\/tilt-shift-video-about-a-day-in-new-york-city\/\">Neatorama<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/9679622\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker, Sam O&#8217;Hare, <a href=\"http:\/\/aerofilm.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html\">describes the process<\/a> he employed in converting 35,000 still photos (shot over a five-day period) into this fascinating look at &#8220;a day in the life of New York City.&#8221; He used a Nikon D-3 digicam and opted for standard Tamron and Sigma lenses in place of dedicated tilt-shift glass; the &#8220;minature&#8221; effects were added in post-production.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Hare says that he likes &#8220;making large scenes small,&#8221; and The Sandpit is an amazing example of how to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perceptive Gazette readers will recall this short post about tilt shift photography, a technique that seems to be gaining in popularity. One of my favorite commercial applications of the technique is the following Allstate Insurance TV ad: It&#8217;s a winsome effect, turning a real life scene into something toy-like. But, as nice as it is,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/03\/01\/100301_moretiltshift\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Tilt-Shift<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-photography","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9858,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/9858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}