My Amateur Art & Photo Blog

Meat Between the thunderstorms today was another great grilling day, and today's photo shows the feast that was fired up. My mouth is watering just looking at this again! Taken with the Canon PowerShot SX230HS in miniature mode with no post processing.

PAX East tilt-shift Taken earlier today from the sky walk over the main Hall at PAX East in the Boston Convention Center. That's a lot of geeks ;) Taken with the Canon PowerShot SX230HS in miniature camera mode from above the action, no post processing.

South Boston, MA - In Camera added Fake Tilt-Shift Using the Canon SX230HS's built in 'miniature effect' mode the shot above was captured from the 6th floor of an office building in South Boston, MA at 7.20am Tuesday January 17th 2012. If you are at a loss as to what 'fake tilt-shift' is, check out my previous posts here and here . This photo shows the first snow fall of the season that actually had any accumulation, for January this storm was very light. As a boy I would have loved a toy truck like this one for Christmas but no doubt if I had been given one from Santa my Dad would have taken it off me before I had a chance to 'damage' it and he'd have put it back in it's original box for safe keeping. Taken with the Canon PowerShot SX230HS

My first attempt at taking photos from my own collection and applying fake tilt shift techniques to them in Photoshop CS2 can now be seen in my gallery. This is definitely a fairly decent technique to make your photos look like they were taken with an expensive Tilt Shift Lens. For those interested, I followed the technique posted in this tutorial and hopefully I'll be able to hone my Photoshop skills with future attempts.