Reflection

I was driving around this weekend and found myself on a road that was overlooking a powerplant. I got my equipment out just in time to get a picture with the train coming in. I did some selective blurring for the tilt shift effect. Opinions?

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The blurring definitely made me think you shot a miniature model railroad until i studied the detail of the power plant and the background a little more closely.

Maybe blur the other way? keep the train in focus and blur the plant a bit?

I think the blur works well enough here to produce the "scale model" effect

For that model look, you typically see an almost complete blur in the background... a good boken. Maybe more blur in the upper 1/3 of the frame but mask the chimney pipes so they're still sharp.

Thank you for the comments.

Thanks! That was the goal with this edit

The focus is actually on the plant, not the train, so blurring the train further helped cover this up.

I will have to try this some more when I get home. Currently there is a mask on the chimney pipes, but it is hard to tell since it is blurry right around them.

I agree that you could push the effect more, with more blur at the appropriate locations, using the lens blur filter in PS, for example. I really like the tilt-shift miniature effect, it makes one think about the visual conflict between the real-life size relationships and appearance of the image elements, but the perception of those elements as miniaturized due to the visual cues within the image processing. Very cool. If done really well, i end up looking at an image and thinking "how did they get the models to be so realistic?"

I think the train is what really sells it as a "miniature", as we are all used to seeing scale model trains - so the effect works really well by appealing to what we know to convince us of the effect.

Keep at this one. It also appears that the image is very slightly tilted to the left (counterclockwise).

Kirk

Haha... Kirk pointed this out (on my thread)

https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthre​ad.php?t=588194

I like yours, what about mine?

The reflection of the Power Plant, and the Power Plant focus & colors are great, but the train distracted me a bit, cause it's out of focus. Maybe if you've took the shoot without the train it would be nicer. did you tryed to crop it to loose the train?? or maybe blured it more? Idea with the train is nice but the blur in that part of the photo just don't go for me. try to play more with it?