This assignment must:
-Have a tilt shift image of a place of residence (your house, your uncle freds house, your grandpas house, apartment, condo etc, keep it personal not some random celebrity).
-Have a tilt shift image of a school (grade school, middle school, high school, college, your favorite one even if you havn't yet attendend).
-Have a tilt shift image of a place of interest / attraction (amusement park, favorite hotel / park / mall, famous building, etc).
-Images must be captured from maps.live.com birds eye view.
-Images must be captured and cropped in GIMP.
-Tilt shift images can be made in GIMP or much easier at tiltshiftmaker.com.
The assignment:
The goal is to learn how to make a miniature model scene of familar places which is called tilt shift photography. The basic principal is that by blurring the the viewer's gaze may be directed to parts of the image the photographer wishes to emphasize. And this direction causes the lifesized objects appear to be miniature in the photograph.
For the full artical please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_miniature_faking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallgantics
Timeline 1 day:
Day 1: Intro to project, begin searching on a map, capturing images turning them into tilt shift images.
If needed we can turn this into a 2 day long assignment, but it should be fine to complete in one day.
STEP 1: Find the picture.
First go to bing.com/maps then search for the location of interest, start with your house so put your full address don't forget the city and state. Then click on the button "birds eye", on the left you have navigation to zoom out and in and to rotate from four different angles.
Once the view looks good make sure and clear the screen of all access clutter so make the minimap smaller, make the search smaller, make the navigation smaller, and to get maximized size in the browser click "view" then "fullscreen".
Remember you need 3 different locations: 1 house, 1 educational facility, 1 popular attraction / place of interest.
Ideas for popular attractions:
Pittock Mansion
Oaks Park
World Forestry Center
OMSI
Oregon State Capitol
Disneyland
Poineer Courthouse Square
Disneyworld
Eiffle Tower, France
Colossem Rome
RMS Queen Mary
Sydney Opera House
Las Vegas
Lisbon, Portugal
Basilica di San Pietro, Vatica
Statue of Liberty
Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Reichstag, Germany
Alcatraz
Washington Monument
Times Square
Pearl Harbor
Trafalgar Square, England
Niagara Falls
Hollywood Sign
Universal studios, Universal city, CA
Sea World, San Diego
National Gallery, UK
Basilique du Sacre-Coeur de Montmartre, Paris
Pleasure Beach, UK
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Florida
Grauman’s Chinese Theater
The London Eye, UK
Navy Pier
Temple Square
Waikiki Beach
Myrtle beach
Oregon Zoo
Mount Rushmore
Bosque de la Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Gravensteen
Guimaraes Castle
STEP 2: Capturing the image (say cheese).
In most all computers you have the abililty to take a snapshot of whatever the screen displays by pressing the "print scrn" key which is to the right of the "f12" key in the top right of the keyboard.
Once it has taken the picture it has the picture in the clipboard you need to put (paste) the picture into an image editing program (like GIMP).
Then crop the image to just the selected section of the screen that you wish to keep. To crop in GIMP use the rectangle selection tool and select the portion you wish to keep then click "image" then "crop to selection".
Save the image to your folder as "tiltshift.jpg".
This is another more explained version of how to do the same thing:
STEP 3: Make it at tiltshiftmaker.com
Follow the directions provided on it's website.
Remember to "get full size" and then "click here to download" and save the file to your Y drive.
EXAMPLES - This is my neighborhood guess which is my house, also,where I went to college at Biola University, and the Statue of Liberty.
REMEMBER
SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN, CROP THE IMAGES TO THE BIGGEST SIZE YOU CAN WHILE NOT SHOWING WEBSITE STUFF, WHEN YOU NEED HELP ASK(raise your hand) but FIRST re-read the assignment guidelines.
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