Just monkeying around here for a bit, before the wife and I leave for a dinner party. I was lying in bed last night wondering what would happen if I changed the gradient on the quick mask from a horizontal position, to a vertical.
Of course it kills that feeling of "I'm looking down at a teeny tiny model", but still renders (in my humble opinion) sort of a neat effect. Neither of these two pictures are very great, and I was shooting with a bright mid-day sun that sort of washed everything out. Weekend visit to NYC, 2008.
Now I want to mess around with some of the other gradient effects.
Times Square
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Top of the Rock, looking towards The Empire State Building.
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Doesn't quite work as a model, as you say, but still a nice effect.

Chrissy






