Local Greenville blogger Eric Rogers stumbled across one of my posts about tilt-shift photography and thought he’d give it a try. Eric is a filmmaker, so he took things a step further and tried to tilt-shift a video clip. The results are quite good. Here’s a link to his finished product in Quicktime .MOV format…
I know Eric used post-processing on this since he places a link to the original clip on his blog. The image is stable, as if it’s shot from a tripod. I wonder if you could get the same effect from a handle-held unit with image stabilization. I don’t know how the changing scene would affect things.
About this time last year I stumbled across a video from Thom Yorke, Radiohead’s front man. This was of the song “Harrowdown Hill” from his debut solo CD, The Eraser.
The video makes extensive use of tilt-shift video imagery. Since the images are in constant motion, I believe they used an actual tilt-shift lens rather than some post-processing to create the effect. Still, it’s very cool.
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The tilt shift is awesome. I only tried to create one once and didn’t care for the effect. The samples you linked to are awesome.
Also- that’s great how you and Dede shot the same guys sitting there. With such a huge crowd, you both caught the same thing. Very cool.
There is an example of how to create a tilt shift video using Adobe After Effects at http://www.cleverbits.com/tiltshift.php
check my tilt shift video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfd3rKNnsK0
we also made a tiltshift-shortmovie about the biggest funfair at the rhine in Duesseldorf:
http://vimeo.com/10773089
cheers