Mash Ups AKA James Bond's Fake Tilt Shift 'Fake-a-roid Mobile

One of the things you can do with the iPhone and iPhone photography is something they like to call “mash-ups” on the interwebs. Basically, the way it works is you take the output from one program and pump it into another. So, for instance, I can first make a fake tilt-shift picture and then take a fake-a-roid of that, making an entirely new beast (from all of the parts.)

In fact, I did that here with this picture. It started out a “straight” image of an Aston Martin. Now, Aston Martins are very cool cars indeed, but this picture? Not so much. It was completely lacking in the cool department, I must say. So, iPhone apps to the rescue!

After babbling yesterday about the iPhone’s handy TiltShift application, I first used that to blur out the unwanted bits of the picture. If you use the tilt-shift stuff the right way, you can get wonderful blurry stuff and, well, you all know how I feel about blur (love it!) So, I started with that. This image has a lot of midtone colors, with a lot of greens (grass, trees, and the like) so it’s a good candidate for extreme blur.

Then, I decided I still had a bit of unwanted “foof” in the outskirts of my image, so I Fake-A-Roided it. I took my TiltShifted image and put it through the ShakeIt Polaroid app, to generate a nice square little mash-up image that you see here.

It’s not exactly tilt-shift (not really, right?) and it’s not exactly a good fake-a-roid, but it’s kind of an interesting shot, maybe because it’s a little bit of both. All I can say now is that I hope James Bond would be proud and leave it at that.

If you’ve got any ideas for mash-ups (or anything you would like me to try) please either email me or leave some comment droppings in the comments for me.

Until next time…

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  1. mythopolis
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    November 10, 2010 / 12:06 am

    Oooh. Since I don't have an Iphone, I don't understand a lot of what you are describing lately. All my kids have Iphones….I don't understand them either!

  2. Carol
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    November 11, 2010 / 12:23 am

    Don't worry, Mythopolis! I'll be back to "normal" photos at some point. Sometime soon, I promise.

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