#digital photos

[jazmatazzzzzz]

🪼ˑ༄ؘ ۪۪۫۫ ▹ ☆ 🌀 digital jellies 🌀 ☆ ◃ ۪۪۫۫ ༄ؘ ˑ🪼

[tecrronincheese]

Some more liminal space photos. Honestly why they all kinda giving album cover vibes

[scp-infohazard]

Some more screenshots

[marejadilla]

Annax Malina, (Anna Malina Zemlianski) "from debris, a series of(f) failure(s)", 2016. Chernivtsi, Ukraine, b. 1984. "Anna Malina is an experimental artist working with self-portraiture and appropriated images, creating gif animations, short films and music videos. She is heavily influenced by her exploration of cinema and moving image history, and obsessed with materiality, failures and absences."

[shelandsorcery]

I installed lightroom, and I tracked down all my .dngs, and I cannot be stopped!

[angelskill]

cherry blossom tree in my backyard <3

IG: @kierstenwittmann

[londontwinkton]

currently

source: pinterest

[scopophilic1997]

scopOphilic_documentary_911b - scopOphilic1997 presents never before seen photographs from September 11, 2001 shot with a digital camera.

10:28am - World Trade Center North Tower collapsed. The South Tower collapsed at 9:58am. Thousands dead. One of the largest cities on the planet looks on in horror.

The moments before and right after the second tower collapsed at 10:28am. These views are from Canal street and Hudson/Greenwich streets.

[hibiscus999]

[harropp]

Splatoon is my gender expression

[lovelisara]

— 2 january 2024

today i took engagement photos for an incredibly good friend of mine. absolutely loved it! i did a really good job despite it being my first time! she’s so important to me and i’m so proud and happy for her. she’s someone i’ve looked up to my whole life, and i’m so glad of who she’s become!

3 things i’m grateful for:

cats.

chai lattes.

middle school photography class.

— love, lisa.

[jazmatazzzzzz]

Rin with the sharks and fishies 🐟 🦈

[tecrronincheese]

For all my liminal space girlies and boyies and anything in between (I hope you all like these, they took forever to take.)

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[abjectionporn-blog]

[queenofthedorks]

You don’t need a shift tilt lens. The original image was probably not taken with a tilt shift lens. It's probably digital.

It’s extremely easy to replicate the feel in Photoshop or another photo editing program. It does work better if you take the photo from a top down angle, but then you essentially pick a strip of the image to remain in focus and use lens blur to blur everything else. Photoshop has actually had a filter specifically for this for almost a decade.

See some of my examples:

Kinda starting to work, but the subject is really too close to the camera.

Better, but it would really work if I was at more of a 45 degree angle to the horizon line vs straight at it.

Best. Actually I don't think the original is quite the same photo as the edited one, but it would have been in the same batch so you can get what the original looked like before I added the blur to tilt shift. (I processed this image in 2012 so IDK where all of the raw files are for these.)

The discovery of tilt shift seems to comes in waves. It was super sexy and people where writing tutorials for how to achieve it digitally in like 2011-2012. Tilt-shift lenses are expensive AF. Digital editing software also expensive AF but more versatile expense.

The short answer is... a tilt-shift lens.

The slightly more complicated answer is... Mister Rogers.

Depth of field is the area in front and behind your chosen focus point that remains in focus and then slowly gets blurry as you get farther away.

Shallow depth of field only has a narrow slice of the image in focus and gets blurry super quick. This is caused by a large lens aperture and being close to the subject.

Deep depth of field can extend through the entire picture if your aperture is small and you are super far away.

Usually the depth of field lines up with the image sensor of your camera. So if it is tilted forward, the plane of focus matches.

The stuff outside the green area would be blurry. The edges of the green would be slightly blurry. And the dashed green line would be the sharpest area of the photo.

But the tilt-shift lens allows you to create chaos with your plane of focus. In most cases, you would use this to flatten the depth of field so you can get a 2D plane entirely in focus.

If you were to use a normal lens, the bottom left and top right would be blurry.

But with a tilt-shift lens you can do this.

The green area is taking a little nap on the floor.

However, there is an unintended side effect created by this lens. (The "Scheimpflug intersection" if you want to go down the rabbit hole.) You can choose absolutely wacky planes of focus that create a very narrow depth of field over a geographically large area.

Believe it or not, this is when psychology comes into play.

And possibly Mister Rogers.

Our only reference for such a large area having a shallow depth of field is our memories of miniatures on TV. So Mister Rogers and Thomas the Tank Engine trained our brains to see this effect as... small.

Depth of field shrinks the closer you are to something. And when filming miniatures, you are placing the lens close to the scene. But the scene represents something big in our minds. We buy the effect, but not 100%. That blurriness wouldn't be there at a regular scale. So our subconscious remembers we are watching small things pretending to be big. It just files that away in the back of our mind.

And then when we see something like this...

Our brain is all, "Look at all that tiny shit!"

Without Mister Rogers, our brains may have never made these connections and tilt-shift photography may just make us wonder why everything is all blurry. That connection to past experience is vital for this effect to be convincing.

Brains are neat.