Tilt-Shift Photos

dnorth

Some pretty cool "tilt-shift" photos here. I don't fully understand the process/lenses involved, but the toy train set effect they achieve is pretty cool:
http://blog.so-net.ne.jp/photolog/archive/c35373277

adam

hahaha and you bastards thought my shit looked like miniatures! THis is awesome!

gauss

arrrrgh, i've seen this kind of thing before, but man oh man does it hurt my brain to look at these. especially the one where the guy sitting at the table inside that looks just like a really, really well sculpted little miniature, but your consciously know he's a real guy. freaking weird, and awesome.

Emil Mujanovic

Yeah, it completely tripped me out! At first I was convinced they were miniatures. By the time I had gone through all the pics and when back to the top and looked at them again, some of the illusion faded.
Really bizarre though, but really cool at the same time.

-caseyjones

MoP

Yep, it's a very cool effect.
I remember reading a while back about how the tilt-shift lens works, forgotten recently though. You can easily fake it in Photoshop with a decent fading selection mask based on distance, and Lens Blur

danr

looks like the menus on the Big Train dvd

Spoon_of_death

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/magazine/20070531_VINCENT_FEATURE/blocker.html

Slum

http://recedinghairline.co.uk/tutorials/fakemodel/index.html