While searching for experiments that I could include within this body of work I came across a technique that makes your photos appear as though they are little model's, as though they are a child's game and the people and objects have suddenly been transformed into little plastic subjects. This really intrigued me as I found a link within the work and painting's of Grant Wood and how he painted his picture ' ' so that it was like a memory from a dream that he had had when he was a small child.
After finding this link between Grant Wood and the photographic technique I decided to have a go at changing my photographs of my homes into a model.
"My old house - 12 Mallard Close"
Here is the method behind 'Tilt-shift':
First you open up your photograph within photoshop
Then add another layer and call it 'Mask'
Now right-click on the 'mask' layer and then >add layer mask and click >white (full opacity) > ok
Then use the blend tool and drag the point from the section you want to be in focus to the point in which you want to be blurred. This should form a line. Then right-click on the 'mask' layer and click >mask to selection
From this, click onto the 'background' layer. Then >Filter >Blur >Gaussian Blur. Then make sure that the 'Blur radius' is 15.0 in both the 'Horizontal' and 'Vertical' box. then click 'Ok'
This should then blur the section that you have selected.
Repeat the last two instructions/screenshots for all of the other areas that you want to be blurred.
After you have finished this you can then change the 'Saturation' > colours > Hue/saturation, if wanted. If not then 'flatten the image' by right-clicking on the 'background' layer >flatten.
This is the finished image:
"My new house - 43 Jewell Road"