Embedded Tour Stop: Nick Harmer's tilt-shift photography
Current TV is re-airing Embedded, a six-part music special that gives you intimate, exclusive access to artists, and here at the blog we’re packing in everything you need to know about each section of each show into one handy post.
We'd spent serious time with Death Cab for Cutie when documenting their album "Narrow Stairs." After that many hours with a band you'll learn plenty you weren't expecting to, like that bassist Nick Harmer is one hell of a photographer. His specialty is making "tilt-shift miniatures," photos that look as if they've been shrunk or shot from an airplane, skewing your perspective. Nick took us along for a Tour Stop segment in San Francisco, then walked us through his own post-production process.
In this outtake, Nick gives a step-by-step tutorial in Photoshop:
Here are more of Nick's own photos, from his Flickr:
Read more with senior producer Alex Simmons about shooting Nick's Tour Stop here.
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