Chicago

[Hazel Grant]

Not sure if this qualifies for this challenge. Slight crop, gradient

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hazel, I think this looks great! Did you use the tutorial? I hope I'll have time this week after work to attempt one

[Maureen Allen]

This is great, Hazel. Love the perspective and the way the buildings and cars look miniaturized.

[Hazel Grant]

Thanks. I only sorta used the tutorial. Read it, got the overall gist of it and then did my own thing. A slight crop, made a box with 150 feathering around the central area, selected inverse and gaussian blurred that a bit, then did several passes of a dark to clear gradient at 8% until I got the effect I wanted. Glad you like it. It was taken from my hotel in Chicago, 23rd floor, last December.

[denise ippolito]

Hazel, Great job with the perspective. I love the off-kilter look to this and the miniature look of the cars.

[Brendan Dozier]

This is very cool, OOTB composition Hazel! Love the angle, miniature effect and how you applied the inverse blurring. Well done!

[Anita Bower]

Good job at making the cars and buildings look like miniatures!

[Ken Childs]

Hi Hazel, your image definitely qualifies for the challenge! A narrow view of the street surrounded by tall buildings makes this a great subject for a pseudo tilt-shift. I think there are a few things you could do to make this even more convincing. You need a much more narrow band of in-focus area and the change from blur to in-focus needs to be less abrupt. I would also increase the contrast and saturation to make it look a bit more fake.

One of the problems I had when first working on these was going overboard on the amount of blur. It goes against everything I've always tried to do when editing!

[Andrew McLachlan]

Hi Hazel, a great perspective here. I think you're on the right track with it and Ken's suggestions will take up to the next level. Great eye for this one!