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.

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

You can view more on our Flickr page.
Keep checking back for more shots of Ithaca and the glorious transition to summer!