Friday, May 21, 2010

Tilt Shift Toronto

There's a new thing out there called tilt-shift photography, where images or videos of normal life-sized things are made to look like miniatures. It's impressive when done well, and it seems to have entirely to do with altering the focus of the foreground and background, so that things nearer to or further from the eye get blurrier than you'd expect. There is a website, called http://tiltshiftmaker.com/, that will turn any picture you upload into a tilt-shift picture. With the ones I tried, it did... well, not a great job, but good enough that you can get a sense of the effect in action. I took five pictures that I've already uploaded from Google Maps in other entries on this blog, and subjected them to the focus of that particular website. Here they are:

Union Station:

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Casa Loma:

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Tim Hortons, Mount Pleasant Rd.

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Victoria Park TTC Station:

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Hockey Hall of Fame:

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Yonge and Finch:

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It's this last one I like best. Little dinky cars... I might do this again some time. It's not perfect, but it was a fun attempt. Clicking on any pictures will make them bigger, of course.

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

A Journey Down Yonge St., part 2: York Region

This is part two, so you should really click here to get the full story.

This is the story of a street - one that has delusions of grandeur about being the longest in the world, but one that is far from tiny. In Part 1, we followed Yonge as it divided Toronto into east and west. Now we take it north of Steeles into the georgaphically much larger York Region. Through Thornhill and Richmond Hill, through Aurora, Newmarket, and places whose names I forget and have never been to in my life...

26. YONGE & CLARK


27. YONGE & JOHN


28. YONGE & ROYAL ORCHARD


29. YONGE & THE 407


30. YONGE & 16th


31. YONGE & MAJOR MacKENZIE


32. YONGE & ELGIN MILLS


33. YONGE & SILVERWOOD


34. YONGE & 19th


35. YONGE & STOUFFVILLE


36. YONGE & KING RD.


37. YONGE & BLACKFOREST


38. YONGE & BLOOMINGTON


39. YONGE & MURRAY


40. YONGE & WELLINGTON


41. YONGE & ORCHARD HEIGHTS


42. YONGE & ST. JOHN'S SIDEROAD


43. YONGE & MULOCK


44. YONGE & DAVIS


45. YONGE & GREEN LANE


46. YONGE & HIGHWAY 11


47. YONGE & HOLLAND LANDING


48. YONGE & BRADFORD


49. YONGE & QUEENSVILLE SIDEROAD


50. 21132 YONGE ST.