Pictures from my Tree work adventures :)

[Matt GT]

Hey matt, fantastic set of pics

 

Can I be really cheeky and ask how do you achieve that effect on the pic on your avatar? I have seen it on some time lapse videos as well but cannot find the name of, or how to do the effect

 

Ta, James

 

 

Hiya James, thanks

 

I do not think you are being cheeky The effect is a basic "Tilt Shift" I did not use an expensive tilt shift lens though.

I took the photo with my phone and then applied that filter when I was faffing about with Instigram app and recognized that filter as a tilt shift style effect.

 

I have been using the technique on other photos a good while before I had a smartphone, you can do it with photo editing software. But the basics are you want to gently blur out the top and bottom and keep the focus on the point of interest.

When done well it makes for a surreal miniaturized model looking scene.

 

I hope that sort of answers it for you I have not yet had my coffee

 

And I have noticed most if not all of the tree planting photos have managed to escape the upload.

[Matt GT]

I love this tree planting. Pine plugs and bare root broad leaves.

Putting in about 2k trees per 10-12 hour day cause it was March/April with more light in the day 400k trees for the full site

 

[kentjames]

Hiya James, thanks

 

I do not think you are being cheeky The effect is a basic "Tilt Shift" I did not use an expensive tilt shift lens though.

I took the photo with my phone and then applied that filter when I was faffing about with Instigram app and recognized that filter as a tilt shift style effect.

 

I have been using the technique on other photos a good while before I had a smartphone, you can do it with photo editing software. But the basics are you want to gently blur out the top and bottom and keep the focus on the point of interest.

When done well it makes for a surreal miniaturized model looking scene.

 

I hope that sort of answers it for you I have not yet had my coffee

 

And I have noticed most if not all of the tree planting photos have managed to escape the upload.

 

 

Thanks Matt, i thought it might have been something to do with istagram. Think i'll have a play around on photoshop on the main pc next week and see what i can achieve after some further reading

[Matt GT]

Welcome James mate

There are some good tutorials for photoshop for this effect quick and easy if I remember.