One of my facebook contacts forwarded me a link to an interesting photoshop article that had me digging through my image archive for a suitable photo to experiment with. Photoshop is great…no matter how much I think that I know, there is always something new that can be done with the application.

This article discussed tilt-shift photography, which uses the Scheimpflug principal to obscure the focal plane of the image relative to the camera. It seems that a photoshop technique can be applied, with a little finesse, to gain an effect similar to that created with a Tilt-Shift Lens. The resulting image can actually trick the eye and look like a miniature model as opposed to a real scene. I used an image that I snapped of a town on the Tambopata River in Peru and applied the technique.

So…what do you think? Does Puerto Maldonado look real or more like a miniature scale model?

I’m already looking for some interesting vantage points to shoot Playa Del Rey, CA and experiment further with this technique. More to come soon…