Weekly photo contest: Tilt Shift

[Richard Devine]

The past couple of weeks our weekly photo contests have taken on some quite broad themes, but this week we're going to try something a little different. We're focusing on one specific effect, and that's Tilt Shift. You may know it best as the effect that can turn city scenes into appearing to be miniature villages. By changing the depth of field you can create some stunning effects.

So, it's going to test your editing as well as your photo taking. The Lumia Creative Studio is one of a number of apps that will help you produce the effect, which I did up top with the image of a train platform taken on my Lumia 830.

Rules

Rules are going to be just like last week. Here they are:

- Picture must be taken with a Windows Phone
- Picture must be uploaded to the contest thread (linked below)
- You have to tell us what device you used to take the picture, and any special software or apps you might have used. Editing your pictures is fine, this is art
- Feel free to add a little back story, we want to know how the picture came to be
- You must have used a valid email address to register here at Windows Central, so I know how to contact the winner
- Only ONE entry per week per person

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Social

We're going to continue our social sharing of entries. Share any pictures you take for the contest on Instagram, Twitter and Fhotoroom using the following hashtags. It's a fun way to at a glance check out your competition and get inspiration. Plus we're building a community of Windows Phone mobile photographers!

Here's how it looks this week.

- #WCpc
- #TiltShifttWC

This doesn't count as your entry; it's just a fun way to track the photos on social media. Your entry still needs to be in the forums!

Prize

One winner will get a $25 gift card to the Windows Phone Store. You can use it to buy apps and games in the Windows Phone Store, Windows Store or Xbox Store.

We'll pick a winner Tuesday night (February 24) at 11:59 PM ET. Winners will be announced in a blog post for the contest next week.

 

[Anoop Azeez]

who is last weeks winner?

 

[akasrj]

Taken from lumia 920
Location: Mumbai

 

[jpc1966]

Taken with Lumia 920 at the Texas State Fair. Tilt Shift done using Fotor.

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John

 

[jeffgeno]

Four levels of snow storms in Boston in a terrible, terrible layer cake.

Taken with a Lumia 1020 and edited with standard Windows 8.1 Photos app.

 

[bhushanpawar]

Shot with L730 Lumia camera on New year's eve

 

[CoatsyJnr]

This photo is of construction going on in my school on Sydney, Australia. I took it on a Lumia 920 and edited it with Lumia Creative Studio

 

[jpc1966]

This photo is of construction going on in my school on Sydney, Australia. I took it on a Lumia 920 and edited it with Lumia Creative Studio

Nice.

 

[CoatsyJnr]

Nice.

Thanks

 

[distilledoreo]

This was taken with my Lumia 925 last year when Huey Lewis & The News were playing after a Mets game. Edited with Lumia Creative Studio for the tilt-shift effect and paint.net was used for everything else.

 

[dirkprinsloo]

This image was taken from the 47th floor in Carlton Centre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Using my Lumia 1520 and some editing in Camera360 Sight, I managed to capture this shot just as the rain started coming down in the distance.

 

[SBaljeet]

Nokia Lumia 920, Tughlaqabad Fort, New Delhi.
Added tilt shift effect with Creative Studio(not remember actually)
Me and my gf were all messed up in our minds with our jobs at that time and needed some quick peace, soothing, refreshing time together somewhere away from the city. This place made us feel light.

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[dineshxa]

This pic was taken at a Shopping Mall in Bangalore. These are coffee mugs captured with my Lumia 730, edited using Fotor App.

 

[nischal shrestha]

Taken from Lumia 620 in Belgium,heverlee and edited before uploading to instagram

 

[locodice]

Hello guys ,so this photo was taken during a snow storm at greece at the start of it with a Lumia 520 and it was processed with Adpbe PhotoShop mobile version.I hope you like it.

 

[Burnbackin]

Shot with my Lumia 930 in Phuket during our amazing travel through Thailand. Edited with Lumia creative studio.

 

[RoyalX]

Thanks. Now I know how to call these kind of pictures.
Tilt Shift

I got Bing as my lock screen app to get daily pictures.
One day I got this on my lock screen. And I loved it so much.
It just looks like a miniature theme park.
And I wanted to know how to make such photos. (it should be an option in the settings, right)
So I made a screenshot of it. And someday I would ask my friends how to do this.

 

[balajdiream]

Taken from Lumia 535 in Qatar while driving. Edited with Lumia Creative Studio

 

[Mani Kapali]

It was taken in Singapore at Chinatown with Nokia Lumia 730 used instagram to tilt shift and filters for Effect.

 

[bee-beek]

Lumia 920
Creative Studio