Quick Tilt-Shift Hack

Tilt-shift is a very appealing technique to me. I love photography and when I first learned of the technique from Adrian Lynch on his Flickr.com account I had to learn more.

I used a de-focus feature to blur the top and bottom of this photo I took in Tokyo. You can see the miniaturization effect. Even though it’s not great quality you can get the idea that defocusing the fore and back ground areas around your subject makes it feel miniature. In many cases the top and bottom thirds of the shot is all that you need to de-focus in a gradient manner.

Essentially your brain thinks it’s a macro/miniature photo because there isn’t any depth of field in the photo. Brain Trickery at it’s best.

The Wikipedia page on tilt-shift has a good detailed explanation.