I thought I would put on my $.02 on the topic. I think the essence of tilt shift is that it removes the focal point so that the perspective is gone. In that sense, shooting as if you're replicating a miniature set is great, but I would only add that there has to be a lots of lines in the shot to give the best impression that the perspective is gone. That was originally how i went about it and I found great success.
You have some of the most listenable tutorials on YT, another great job. Oh... and congratulations on not using the most common verbal tick ‘you guys’ every 5 seconds ! it really does make such a difference.
Thanks you guys... DOAH. I mean, thanks Andy. Good catch there. That annoys me to no end as well. Sometimes it slips as I say it colloquially, but I try to not start my videos out like that! Also, thanks for leaving a comment. I do work a lot in a little "cave" here and it's nice to hear when people like yourself at least appreciate them. - R
Amazing tutorial. I'm going to refer to this quite a bit! Here are a few alternative ideas. COLOR: The color needs to be vibrant, not because people tend to paint things in bright colors (the green of the mini bush could be as bright as my green bathing suit). Instead it's because all colors appear brighter close up than far away. Why? Light pollution. The further an object is from the viewer (or camera) generally the more light, and certainly the more sediment between them. This is why mountains in the far distance appear lighter and tend to blend in to the same color as the sky. So the best way to do this is to make sure that the 'brightness' is adjusted. Saturation and contrast help, but the main point is that the image should not apear washed out, because that's not what things look like up close. SHARPNESS & GRAIN: The grain and shaprness are important because we can see so much more detail when looking at small objects up close. Lint, dust, imperfections, these all come into full focus when you're up close. So sharpness and grain help simulate this experience and create the illusion of detail that isn't really there. SPEED & SCALE: These things are coupled. First let's talk about speed. The tilt-shift videos are sped up, not because we tend to see close-up game play sped up. It's because things appear to move faster from point A to B when you're up close. Imagine a kid playing with a train set. The kid isn't going to adjust for scale and move the train exactly according to what it would look like if we were birds looking down at that size train, right? He's gonna just move his hand quickly to make the train move ... which according to scale is way faster than it would actually look like it's going. So the train moves 6 inches. It would take a hand about 1 second to move it that far. So now back to the video. When you record video with a tilt shift lens of a REAL train moving and play it back at regular speed, the train looks tiny, so the train looks like it's moving about 6 inches because of the tilt shift. But there's a problem. If you play the video at its normal speed, it will seem like it's taking forever for the mini-train to move 6 inches! A kid's hand would just zoom it over in one second! Of course in reality what was filmed was not 6 inches, it's 200 feet. So it takes longer to move that far in real life. So what you do? You speed up the film (or do a time lapse)! When you do that it makes it look like all the little moving things are really in a toy model, and you're looking at it up close. BUT!!! Remember, that there's a direct relationship between the distance between your lens and the moving objects and how fast they are going. Most often, time-lapses are TOO FAST. They look too fast for the scale we would imagine tiny models. With the train is moving, for example, 6-inches in .1 second. And that makes the model look extra tiny, which is okay but, I'd say try to play with the speed as well.
Currently planning on doing some film work that will require making small models look big, so this was kinda interesting trying to understand what the effect is and how you make big things look small in order to reverse-engineer it to do the opposite
Good one. Also, another benefit of using this editing technique vs tilt-shift lens to produce tilt shift effect is that when you get a subject with unknown trajectory across the frame, like the guy with his bike, you can determine the 'slice of the focal plane in focus after the fact.
If anyone is seeing this, and wondering WHY this makes things look miniature: it's because of depth of field. When you're photographing something really close, the depth of field is really thin. But if you're really far away, even at a huge aperture, everything is gonna be in focus at that distance. But, if you cheat it, and create a shallow depth of field on something that's far away, it tricks the brain, and your brain thinks "obviously it must be tiny, and really close"
A quick tip on an issue I always run into and that I saw 1:49 in this video. When you apply blur, the edge pixels will become transparent, showing the layer behind (I believe it is the clip with your hair?). This is easily fixed by scaling the clip up. Thanks for a great tutorial. Cheers!
Nice examples. The Canon TS lens (I have the 24mm) is one of their sharpest lenses. No need to add grain on it's account. I'll watch more of your time lapse stuff though. That's very helpful.
I am 10 seconds into the video and I want to take a stab at it. Okay shoot in miniature setting while doing a time-lapse session and Wallah? okay I'll keep watching now
thanks for the wonderful tips , i am miniature artist i am working on a project in which i need to make a miniature park playing stop motion characters , i am not able to figure out what is best way to start shooting , any tutorials for shooting miniature objects like seen in between of the video
Very good tutorial, but I have a question how do I get 24 frames per second at 5 frames per second, to get the same result that you have with the video of the beach?
really enjoyed this thankyou !. so can tilt shift time lapse be done to video footage? why do most people do time lapse or tilt shift with photograph sequences instead of a video camera or video recording?
Thank you for this video tutorial. Great and love it. I'm curious though about gopro set up for hero 4 silver. Do you have any tips for that? Thank and God bless.
Awesome tutorial. Just got a drone and can't wait to try some of this out. Question - does the band of focus need to be horizontal? Can it be vertical, or even on an angle? Can it be elliptical with surrounding edges blurry? Thanks!
At least that works (I had expected the gaussian blur to look a bit weird as focus blur, but it actually looks very natural). Just draw a mask around the area that is supposed to be in focus, make sure the top and bottom are very flat, with a slight curve at most, and then invert the mask and make the edge very soft. A good rule of thumb is to make the edges of the soft edge meet in the middle and leave just a few pixels between them in the middle.
You guys do great work! Hopefully one day I'll get there. :) I shared your channels, website and the Our Rock Project with both of my kids' science teachers. Hopefully they'll do it. One of the teachers sounded excited about it!
Saw this on my home page and noticed the Lake Bled thumbnail. Watched it and got a great tutorial. Would love to see another one on using filters in Premiere to do this. Also liked the color grade and noise aspect that I would not have thought of. It's Inspired me to start taking more timelapses with people and vehicles in them.
Great as always. I have 1 question: what is the best period of time shooting photos from camera? I mean for example - 1 photo in 5 seconds and after 5 seconds another photo... Pls reply.
Well, I say one second every 1-2 seconds when shooting people should be a good happy place for you. You can always speed it up, but unless you capture it, you can't slow it down.
Would this work alright with a timelapse taken with an iPhone or cameras built in time lapse software? i'm not sure on the difference between taking multiple photos and video time lapse stuff..
awesome tutorial about tilt-shift effect and timelapse!
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One problem with faked Tilt-Shift is that houses in the foreground also become blurry at the top and bottom even the objects may be in that range where the objects should be on focus, so sometime you can get a even better effect if you also can mask out objects as houses and poles that should be in focus even they extend up into the blurred areas. Still, this is a very good episodes episode with many great looking T-Shift motion, and I do love the results you get from this method.
So it depends on what you're shooting. If you're shooting tiny objects, like people and there's no big objects, it works great. But if you have buildings that would cross that blur barrier, you can mask it so it sits at the correct "depth"
Hey guys, when i take these time lapse, following the steps you guys mentioned, do I have to take it from afar and zoom it in on post prod, or zoom in while taking the time lapse shot
I don't really have any experience with shooting or photography in general but want to start, what are some good camera that anyone could recommend (and that could take some videos like this)? I intend to get a good point and shoot like a Ricoh GR, but I'd like to get a good, solid DSLR to get some great videos/photos. Thanks to anyone who can help or provide links.
If I wanted to shoot someone and make them look miniature like a doll house effect would you recommed this function and what you recommed to be aware of in advance
That is an awesome guide! Thank you so much! I'm absolutely going to try this effect on my photos. And maybe even try to make my own timelapse! Liked, subscribed!
To save you guys some time. (You should totally watch the video actually) It's using focal length tricks and blurs to make things look small. (So it looks like 5:55 )
I friggin LOVE this effect
Omg! The one with the construction workers is crazyyyY! Nice vid!
I thought I would put on my $.02 on the topic. I think the essence of tilt shift is that it removes the focal point so that the perspective is gone. In that sense, shooting as if you're replicating a miniature set is great, but I would only add that there has to be a lots of lines in the shot to give the best impression that the perspective is gone. That was originally how i went about it and I found great success.
You have some of the most listenable tutorials on YT, another great job. Oh... and congratulations on not using the most common verbal tick ‘you guys’ every 5 seconds ! it really does make such a difference.
Thanks you guys... DOAH. I mean, thanks Andy. Good catch there. That annoys me to no end as well. Sometimes it slips as I say it colloquially, but I try to not start my videos out like that! Also, thanks for leaving a comment. I do work a lot in a little "cave" here and it's nice to hear when people like yourself at least appreciate them. - R
Amazing tutorial. I'm going to refer to this quite a bit! Here are a few alternative ideas.
COLOR: The color needs to be vibrant, not because people tend to paint things in bright colors (the green of the mini bush could be as bright as my green bathing suit). Instead it's because all colors appear brighter close up than far away. Why? Light pollution. The further an object is from the viewer (or camera) generally the more light, and certainly the more sediment between them. This is why mountains in the far distance appear lighter and tend to blend in to the same color as the sky. So the best way to do this is to make sure that the 'brightness' is adjusted. Saturation and contrast help, but the main point is that the image should not apear washed out, because that's not what things look like up close.
SHARPNESS & GRAIN: The grain and shaprness are important because we can see so much more detail when looking at small objects up close. Lint, dust, imperfections, these all come into full focus when you're up close. So sharpness and grain help simulate this experience and create the illusion of detail that isn't really there.
SPEED & SCALE: These things are coupled. First let's talk about speed. The tilt-shift videos are sped up, not because we tend to see close-up game play sped up. It's because things appear to move faster from point A to B when you're up close. Imagine a kid playing with a train set. The kid isn't going to adjust for scale and move the train exactly according to what it would look like if we were birds looking down at that size train, right? He's gonna just move his hand quickly to make the train move ... which according to scale is way faster than it would actually look like it's going. So the train moves 6 inches. It would take a hand about 1 second to move it that far. So now back to the video. When you record video with a tilt shift lens of a REAL train moving and play it back at regular speed, the train looks tiny, so the train looks like it's moving about 6 inches because of the tilt shift. But there's a problem. If you play the video at its normal speed, it will seem like it's taking forever for the mini-train to move 6 inches! A kid's hand would just zoom it over in one second! Of course in reality what was filmed was not 6 inches, it's 200 feet. So it takes longer to move that far in real life. So what you do? You speed up the film (or do a time lapse)! When you do that it makes it look like all the little moving things are really in a toy model, and you're looking at it up close. BUT!!! Remember, that there's a direct relationship between the distance between your lens and the moving objects and how fast they are going. Most often, time-lapses are TOO FAST. They look too fast for the scale we would imagine tiny models. With the train is moving, for example, 6-inches in .1 second. And that makes the model look extra tiny, which is okay but, I'd say try to play with the speed as well.
Ah of course. That also makes a lot of sense. Now I wish I could have redone it. I took that from another tutorial and it made a fair amount of sense.
Still a badass tutorial! Short, sweet (instruction) .... incredibly LEAN. I'll be coming back.
This gave me a lot of cool ideas to try out when I eventually get my order from DJI. Good show.
I think drone shots will actually take some great miniature photos.
Currently planning on doing some film work that will require making small models look big, so this was kinda interesting trying to understand what the effect is and how you make big things look small in order to reverse-engineer it to do the opposite
3 years later - how'd it go?
I think I originally found your channel for time-lapses! Been a keen follower ever since. Keep up the great work guys!
I have a few more too that I'm going to do Neil. Thanks for the comments, as always.
Good one. Also, another benefit of using this editing technique vs tilt-shift lens to produce tilt shift effect is that when you get a subject with unknown trajectory across the frame, like the guy with his bike, you can determine the 'slice of the focal plane in focus after the fact.
Great thought! I totally agree. Moving the focal plane is a great technique!
Im here after dailydoze of the internet.
Lol same
We are 3 years to late to this 😂
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Lol same
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If anyone is seeing this, and wondering WHY this makes things look miniature: it's because of depth of field. When you're photographing something really close, the depth of field is really thin. But if you're really far away, even at a huge aperture, everything is gonna be in focus at that distance. But, if you cheat it, and create a shallow depth of field on something that's far away, it tricks the brain, and your brain thinks "obviously it must be tiny, and really close"
But shouldn't you blur less sobject closer to the in focus part and blur more the one that are further ?
A quick tip on an issue I always run into and that I saw 1:49 in this video. When you apply blur, the edge pixels will become transparent, showing the layer behind (I believe it is the clip with your hair?). This is easily fixed by scaling the clip up. Thanks for a great tutorial. Cheers!
Great tip! Thanks Magnus. I do that too.
I love all art of lapses, they are all awesome
I have been looking for the name of this effect for weeks, thanks you
Holy crap I love this channel
This is an awesome technique! Another quality video.
Great intro. I noticed this feature on a smartphone for taking photos but had no idea what it actually does.
Enjoying your work/channel/tutorials very much, keep up the good work!
Nice examples. The Canon TS lens (I have the 24mm) is one of their sharpest lenses. No need to add grain on it's account. I'll watch more of your time lapse stuff though. That's very helpful.
clicked because of Bled island. Stayed because of an awesome tutorial
I am 10 seconds into the video and I want to take a stab at it. Okay shoot in miniature setting while doing a time-lapse session and Wallah? okay I'll keep watching now
clicked because of Bled island. Scrubbed through video looking for Bled island. No Bled island. Leaving video.
clicked because of Bled Island, because I am currently editing videos of Bled Island myself lol
Clicked for Bled island, stayed for the tutorial, still wondering where is that shot? Please, show us!
Loved the thorough and thoughtful explanation
Thanks.
Awesome tutorial.
Definitely deserves more than 60k views 😳
It's getting there! I just saw it. 449k
Out of the world bro!! superb!! Thanks a lot
Thank you so much there is not enough tilt shift content.
your work-space setup seems awesome!!!
Great video!.. I would love to see a tutorial on how to make a tilt shift time lapse in Adobe Lightroom & Photoshop (If its possible)
thanks for the wonderful tips , i am miniature artist i am working on a project in which i need to make a miniature park playing stop motion characters , i am not able to figure out what is best way to start shooting , any tutorials for shooting miniature objects like seen in between of the video
Very good tutorial, but I have a question how do I get 24 frames per second at 5 frames per second, to get the same result that you have with the video of the beach?
This is a great video - very useful and thorough. Thank you!
nice video. i had forgotten all about this effect. good stuff!
what aperture should you shoot at? are there rules to adhere to with aperture? (you mentioned shutter speed 1/60th plus)..
Really good info here, I learned quite a bit, thanks so much.
Very interesting and cool effects. Thanks for sharing your techniques.
Very nice. Give me ideas to use with Mavic mini. Excellent work.
Awesome Video! Thanks for sharing. Love the quality of your videos as well. So pleasing to watch ☺️.
Does this effect work with regular video, or does it have to be timelapse? All help appreciated
I'm planning on recreating this effect in OpenCV for a class. This tutorial was pretty helpful for inspiration. Thanks!
This is not actually what I searched for, but thanks for sharing ...great info
really enjoyed this thankyou !. so can tilt shift time lapse be done to video footage? why do most people do time lapse or tilt shift with photograph sequences instead of a video camera or video recording?
Looks so unreal! Awesome tutorial man
Superb material man. Im newbie and understood you, congrats!
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate the comment.
I did this, and it turned out great...Thanks.
Thank you for this video tutorial. Great and love it. I'm curious though about gopro set up for hero 4 silver. Do you have any tips for that? Thank and God bless.
This is adorable. Can't wait to try it! Thank you!!
Nice tutorial! Thanks for the clear explanation. Subscribed.
I am not a video editor, nor a photo enthusiast. I still enjoyed watching this video, idk why. Nice video though!
This is absolutely amazing
Awesome tutorial. Just got a drone and can't wait to try some of this out. Question - does the band of focus need to be horizontal? Can it be vertical, or even on an angle? Can it be elliptical with surrounding edges blurry? Thanks!
Is there such a focus blur in Premiere Pro or do I just use something like a gaussian blur and a soft mask there?
At least that works (I had expected the gaussian blur to look a bit weird as focus blur, but it actually looks very natural).
Just draw a mask around the area that is supposed to be in focus, make sure the top and bottom are very flat, with a slight curve at most, and then invert the mask and make the edge very soft.
A good rule of thumb is to make the edges of the soft edge meet in the middle and leave just a few pixels between them in the middle.
Awesome clips of Gothenburg in the end!
You got it! :)
You guys do great work! Hopefully one day I'll get there. :) I shared your channels, website and the Our Rock Project with both of my kids' science teachers. Hopefully they'll do it. One of the teachers sounded excited about it!
Awesome. I'm really proud of the series we did (do) for beginners. I felt there was great need for a simple and easy to understand beginner series.
Very good point about the stop motion thing.
How did you get that shot of the people from the ocean?
That's a stock video shot actually. I think I got it off of videoblocks.com :)
Saw this on my home page and noticed the Lake Bled thumbnail. Watched it and got a great tutorial. Would love to see another one on using filters in Premiere to do this. Also liked the color grade and noise aspect that I would not have thought of. It's Inspired me to start taking more timelapses with people and vehicles in them.
Great as always. I have 1 question: what is the best period of time shooting photos from camera? I mean for example - 1 photo in 5 seconds and after 5 seconds another photo... Pls reply.
Well, I say one second every 1-2 seconds when shooting people should be a good happy place for you. You can always speed it up, but unless you capture it, you can't slow it down.
Can you show us your set up of your work area. Looks awesome!
Would this work alright with a timelapse taken with an iPhone or cameras built in time lapse software? i'm not sure on the difference between taking multiple photos and video time lapse stuff..
Cool ideas, thanks! This will really help me in that GoPro footage has generally limited recording manipulation options.
That's an awesome technique!
Could this be paired with the vertigo affect? That’s my first favorite video effects this is now my second.
Many thanks for my portfolio....... It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
awesome tutorial about tilt-shift effect and timelapse!
One problem with faked Tilt-Shift is that houses in the foreground also become blurry at the top and bottom even the objects may be in that range where the objects should be on focus, so sometime you can get a even better effect if you also can mask out objects as houses and poles that should be in focus even they extend up into the blurred areas.
Still, this is a very good episodes episode with many great looking T-Shift motion, and I do love the results you get from this method.
So it depends on what you're shooting. If you're shooting tiny objects, like people and there's no big objects, it works great. But if you have buildings that would cross that blur barrier, you can mask it so it sits at the correct "depth"
Jesus!! thx for the tutorial!! This video is quiet useful for me!!!
Hey guys, when i take these time lapse, following the steps you guys mentioned, do I have to take it from afar and zoom it in on post prod, or zoom in while taking the time lapse shot
Excellent tutorial, thank you! I've always wondered how to make that miniature effect
I like this guy. He's got 52 things for us to learn. I can't even do 1.
Nah - I bet you could do at least one...
ha ha. Is BEER CHUGGING one of your 52?
No way! You mean Beer Chugging is one of them?!!
I don't really have any experience with shooting or photography in general but want to start, what are some good camera that anyone could recommend (and that could take some videos like this)? I intend to get a good point and shoot like a Ricoh GR, but I'd like to get a good, solid DSLR to get some great videos/photos. Thanks to anyone who can help or provide links.
Thanks, a lot of information and something to try :)
Where is Bled from the thumbnail?? :)
Lovrenc Košenina ... blizu mene :))
Fantastic tutorial
You did one with Bled island too? :)
Would this work in DaVinci Resolve 14? If so, how would I do it?
Car time lapse looked so different, how did you achieve that
very awesome effect!
thanks for the video. I want to try this out next time i can get a city timelapse
If I wanted to shoot someone and make them look miniature like a doll house effect would you recommed this function and what you recommed to be aware of in advance
Of course I'm gonna try this
thanks for the idea and the video
did you say ANY editing software. K ima go do this in imovie
wonderful video and love your work bro ... always good tips and tutorials...
What's the song from the beginning?
Informative. Eyeopening. Thanks
What tripod is he using at the lego shoot?
Can we make this tilt shift technic using mobile phone??
Awesome tutorial! Thank you so much!
You gave me wanna do timelapse! Thanks a lot!!
That is an awesome guide! Thank you so much! I'm absolutely going to try this effect on my photos. And maybe even try to make my own timelapse!
Liked, subscribed!
Very very well done! Always wondered how this was achieved!
Great tutorial. Thanks! I love the legos too.
Thanks! :)
Great Tutorial. :-)
Where did you get that chest with the miniature gorge? Thanks!
1:55 looks so good.
Please let me know the tool in which you are editing videos.
Amazing tutorial once again! Thanks!!
thanks for your explanation, awesome!
Dude, that was awesome, thank you!
Great tutorial!
mind-blowing !!
Just awesome stuff! Thanks!
To save you guys some time. (You should totally watch the video actually)
It's using focal length tricks and blurs to make things look small. (So it looks like 5:55 )