tilt shift

I wanted to get some practice using the tilt-shift technique. I have seen a lot of cool videos where this technique makes the footage look like a "toy world". I thought I'd try for something slightly different and see if I could give it more of a "dream world" effect. Did it work? Filmed...

My biggest hobby is photography ... I also have a small collection of old cameras. One of these is Horseman VH ... system camera, with which you can do Tilt-shift. If you do this from a certain angle, everything will appear to be miniature. Of course you can also do this with software ....

Problem: Gimbal tilts up by itself randomly even when sitting on my desk. Other than that it works as expected most of the time. It's just a bummer to have the gimbal tilt up in the middle of recording a shot that you then have to do over again hoping there will be no tilt. Was unit in a crash...

On numerous requests from my viewers. I have made this video explaining how to make miniature worlds from your drone footage using FCPX. This effect is also known as Tilt-Shift

Here's a very short snippet of a freight train captured by my Mavic the other day, post-processed to look like a toy model...

I finally shot some footage that seemed to be a good candidate to apply the miniature effect or Tilt Shift. It is simply a flyover of a small town in WV so it isn't too exciting but I thought the effect added something to it. Here is New Year's Day over Miniature Gassaway WV. I have the video...