River Nidd at Knaresborough

[Ryewolf]

One of the River Nidd at Knaresborough...

 

[JohnP]

I'm an old stick in the mud and would prefer the whole image in focus... just my opinion, I'm sure some will like it though.

[fuzzyedges]

The view of the via duct from the castle is classic but I dont think the oof does it justice

Nice try at an alternative

[Ryewolf]

Thanks for all the comments, the original is all in focus, this was an experiment with a Tilt/Shift Effect to give the effect of it being in minature. I really quite like it, but not to everyones taste.

[fuzzyedges]

Now I see what you were after

As a suggestion would cropping the sky off give a better minature effect by condensing the image,  just my tuppence worth

[ChrisLumix]

Miniaturisation (I hate the misuse of the term Tilt/Shift  ) - it worked well here, the illusion is extremely good.

[Ryewolf]

Thanks everyone, got to admit I like the crop Judy, I'd already croped the left hand side off, not sure why it didn't occur to me to crop some of  the top also.

This wasn't a plugin for Lightroom or any other graphics program, but rather a website: (It does have a limit on the max size you can download without subscribing. 2000px on the longest length)

http://tiltshiftmaker.com/

It suggested using an image taken from higher up and this was the only one I had to try out, I believe you can get similar effects using a proper tilt/shift camera - alas the cheapest canon one is almost £1200 so won't be getting one soon.

[fuzzyedges]

Just my thruppence worth I would crop the left again to just before the river stanchion

Just to get rid of that bush

[Guest Ron]

I really like it Rye, must admit I did have to look twice. I thought it a scene from a model railway when first I glanced at it so the process does work.

Ron

[annie]

I love tilt/shift pictures....

I do prefer the cropped version....

[Phil]

I really like this type of effect too, this one works a lot better than your train shot simply because of the higher perspective.

[Ryewolf]

Yes, I have to agree it does seem to work better from a higher perspective and thanks again for all the comments and suggestions.

[ChrisLumix]

Too much cropping and you lose the effect more and more. As a COMPOSITION the second works better. But as a MINIATURISATION ("Toy Effect"), the first one preserves the illusion much better. So it seems to me.