Everyone’s got at least one digital camera these days. But how well do you use it? Welcome to The Gizmodo Shooting Challenge, where Giz readers get to pit their photographic skills against each other for the admiration of their editors on a dedicated theme each week. This week’s challenge? Tiltshift. More »
A good quality tilt-shift lens for a DSLR costs a couple of thousand dollars. Some newer cameras include a tilt-shift mode that fakes the effect, but those cameras cost a few hundred dollars at best. TiltShift Generator is a $1.19 app that will let you convert any image on your iPhone into a fake tilt-shift image. Win. More »
We love tilt-shift photography here at Giz – something about photos and videos that look like Micro Machines just gets us feeling all nostalgic. So the new Ricoh CX4′s “toy camera” “miniaturise” shooting mode, which creates a fake tilt-shift effect without the need for special lenses or expensive hardware, makes us sit up and pay attention. More »
After professional photographer Alex Dejong lost his sight three years ago, he thought his days of taking and editing photos was over. But the iPhone 3GS’s VoiceOver feature, plus a few key apps, has given some of his abilities back. More »
