Mar 1, 2011: Tilt-shift Van Gogh

Undertoad • Mar 1, 2011 5:04 pm
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A little background first: "tilt shift" is a photoshoppy technique where an ordinary photo of something wide in range, such as a landscape, is converted into what looks like a model. Aw hell, this page explains it better than I can, and has examples.

So, Serena Malyon came up with the idea of performing tilt-shift manipulations on iconic Van Gogh paintings.

This is the fine art version of remix artists and DJs taking old, familiar songs and turning them into something new, in a way that maintains artistic integrity.

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zippyt • Mar 1, 2011 5:13 pm
I dream like that some time
jimhelm • Mar 1, 2011 8:55 pm
because Van Gogh needs more color saturation.

I really like it though. very very cool
monster • Mar 1, 2011 10:07 pm
I like it.
Alluvial • Mar 1, 2011 11:15 pm
I like it too.
Gravdigr • Mar 2, 2011 12:00 am
New tech, applied to old medium.:thumb:
Elspode • Mar 2, 2011 12:19 am
Essentially, changing the f-stop setting of the camera the photo was painted with. :)
Trilby • Mar 2, 2011 2:01 am
I like!
SPUCK • Mar 2, 2011 6:28 am
Why all the blur? Is that an artifact of the process?

[COLOR="Cyan"]Makes me think they're trying to hiding something.[/COLOR]
monster • Mar 2, 2011 8:02 am
SPUCK;714139 wrote:
[COLOR="Cyan"]Makes me think they're trying to hiding something.[/COLOR]


If you follow the swirls backwards, it reads "Worship His Noodly Appendage".
Shawnee123 • Mar 2, 2011 8:45 am
Coolamundo!

My ex's roommate (a jeweler/artist) painted a version of Starry Night for me. It's quite good.

I don't care what anyone says: I luvz Van Gogh. I woulda been his girlfriend had I been alive then. ;)
glatt • Mar 2, 2011 8:50 am
Not a lot to say about these, but I think they are cool, and I like them. In hindsight, it's obvious that this can be done to paintings, but I think the person who thought of it is brilliant.
Sundae • Mar 2, 2011 10:24 am
I keep seeing this as Tit-Shift. But that was Titian.
Diaphone Jim • Mar 2, 2011 1:00 pm
OK. A hundred years of model makers trying for the most realistic look possible.
These guys take reality and make it look fake. Now that's progress.
I am sure van Gogh would wish he had been able to make his pictures just like these.
I am afraid I can't understand all the superlatives in the various descriptions of the technique.
Adak • Mar 4, 2011 12:48 pm
Sundae Girl;714191 wrote:
I keep seeing this as Tit-Shift. But that was Titian.



<< Exactly!! >>;)
ZenGum • Mar 4, 2011 7:12 pm
Tit-shifting was Picasso. Philistines.