Tilt Shifting the Neighborhood

O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE JHT TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography O- HOW TO TILT SHIFT HACK PLAIN OLD MAP IMAGERY INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD OF MAKE-BELIEVE TILT SHIFTING THE NEIGHBORHOOD O GRAB Grab a screenshot of a web-map's aerial imagery. Hot tip: try to include trees and cars -they'll soon look like railroad hobbyist props. Anyways, here's a snapshot of Frederick Douglass Circle in NYC from Bing Maps. O MAX !! Simulate the artificial lighting of a model landscape by cranking up the saturation and contrast to * 11* -this minimizes the atmospheric haze that makes things look far away. Make two copies of the supersaturated image, keeping one in your pocket for later. O BLUR Simulate the narrow depth of field of macro lenses by taking one of your supersaturated images and blurring the tarnation out of it... oO FADE ...then apply a radial opacity mask so that the middle area disappears. This invisible section will be the "focus area" when you combine it with the sharp image in the next step. ASTACK Take that not-blurry supersaturated image you'd copied off in a previous step and align it underneath the masked blurry version. The result is a trumped up gigantic miniature that simulates the studio lighting and focal characteristics of macro photography; it's tilt shift time! If you are doing this with motion video, then speed up the down-sampled frames to make it look like time-lapse or stop-motion, and toss in a stirring atmospheric score to invoke existential questions of ultimate scale and one's place in the universe. John Nelson, IDV Solutions | uxblog.idvsolutions.com en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography