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01.07.09Making miniatures of your imagesTilt-shift miniature faking has been around for a while. But I hadn't seen Tiltshiftmaker before. And decided to give it a go. It's a web site where you can upload an image or give it the URL of an image. Then it adds a simple blur effect and adjust the color to make the illusion of a miniature model. Works pretty good. The miniature: The original: Pretty cool. And by the way. The image is from Ljubljana in Slovenia. Fantastic city. And if you want to do it with photoshop you can try one of the many tutorials out there.
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12.27.08One year worth of images give some amazing videosUpdate: I made three new videos of 2009 with my 5D Mark II last year. One year in 40 seconds from Eirik Solheim on Vimeo. So far I've made two videos of the images I describe in this article. The one here at the top and another two minutes version. Read on to learn how I did this, to see the other video and to download the videos and images in high quality. And if you want to watch this video here at the top in HD quality you have to click through to Vimeo. The story Back in 2005 I did an experiment shooting ...
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09.03.08My current image workflowI posted my current backup strategy a while ago. And after a quick chat with Rodrigo on Twitter I decided to post my image workflow as well. The basic flow is simple: 1. Out there Snap images in RAW using my trusted Canon ESO 400D. I'm still very impressed with this camera. It has survived more than I could expect. Now snapping away at its image number 26 654. It has survived drops from 1,5 meter. Heat and sand in Marrakesh and freezing snow in the mountains of Norway. I'm not changing before Canon cranks out that 21 mpix, 8 fps, weather sealed, HD-video ...