Amazing Tilt-Shift Van Gogh Paintings

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Mon Mar 18, 2013 7:27 am

Using a feature on Photoshop, an illustrator was able to literally bring new dimension to some Van Gogh's paintings. They look like little dioramas! I like the effect and as the article author suggests, I'd enjoy seeing this done to other paintings as well!

Amazing Tilt-Shift Van Gogh Paintings [16 Pics] ï¿½TwistedSifter

Saint_ · Post by **Saint_** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 7:57 am

Wow! Verrrry cool. I reposted that link to the school's graffiti page because I know a lot of teachers that like Van Gogh (Including myself!)

TÃ½r · Post by **TÃ½r** » Tue Mar 19, 2013 4:16 pm

This is such an odd notion. It's introducing a photographic aberration which, back when the aberration was hard to avoid, photographers tried very hard to reduce as much as possible. And here it is back again as a conscious style deliberately being imposed on photos which could never have had the aberration originally, not even back when it was a problem.

On the subject of Van Gogh, I dislike his flood-paint within drawn borders approach to painting. It's not what I see and I bet it's not what he saw either, it's just all he knew when it came to expressing onto his canvas.

eta: though, now I think of it, back when I did wet dark room processing I chose to use chemicals which did a very similar thing (flood-painting within drawn borders), emphasizing boundaries. Acutol was one, but I can't even remember the name of the developer I preferred.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Thu Mar 21, 2013 4:21 am

I'm glad you enjoyed it enough to re-post it, Saint!

I didn't realize that you could create certain effects like "flood painting within borders" with photographs during the development stage. This tilt-shift concept was new to me also both with Photoshop and with the older photography processes.

tabby · Post by **tabby** » Thu Apr 25, 2013 8:16 am

Van Gogh's Starry Night with Dominos: