Tilt-Shift for Dummies
OK, the tilt-shift technique--the one that makes real photos look like shots of miniature models by way of manipulating the depth of field--may be the fad of the moment. But it also points a finger at just how delicate our grasp of media is in a much more profound way. Without much effort, we can fool the eye that an image of a real place is actually an image of a fake place. The point is, of course, that media can very well be the message. It also happens to support the argument that mediation of any type is a step toward fantasy. Why else do we see the tilt-shift universe as a cute, wonderful and magical doll house world?
Which only makes http://tiltshiftmaker.com/ all that much cooler. The Web site is dedicated to the technique and provides a very simple, but quite effective tool for turning your images into tilt-shift fantasylands,
Here's my view of Aspen, from the gondola courtesy of tiltshiftmaker (and yes, I know, Aspen wasn't real in the first place!):
