is tons of fun.

We were all blown away after seeing a “best of” over at Smashing Magazine. Since I had the chance to try this analog style with a Calumet large format camera (during my IC days)  I thought I’d try to re-create the effect in Photoshop, which proved tricky at first.

But, I re-creating it in photoshop is the easy part: getting a decent source photo is what will make a tilt shift beautiful. I’d recommend you:

1) get some altitude
2) zoom in as far as your lens will allow or
3) pop a wide-angle lens on (nothing in between)

If any other tilt shift fans out there have advice, we’d love to read about it: just leave a comment below.

This past week has been exceptionally beautiful here in Ithaca. We even repositioned the Commons Cam to show more of the beautiful blue sky and trees. And since we’re usually cranking away projects on our computers all day long we’ve been taking our lunch outside

We’ve also been taking the camera with us. Here are some of the highlights:

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