Tilt-shift photography was developed in the 1960s but has gained popularity in recent years.

How did you come to discover tilt-shift photography?

Tilt-shift photography is also associated with miniature faking.

The technique was inspired by the tilt-shift photography of Olivo Barbieri.

Always keenly interested in photography, he began experimenting with tilt-shift photography in 2007.

To create and emphasize scale, Capybara chose to make the player-character small and use a dramatic tilt-shift photography effect.

Photographer Ben Thomas "miniaturizes" iconic cities and their landmarks through the technique of tilt-shift photography.

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert uses tilt-shift photography in its opening credits sequence.

Tilt-shift photography is method of photo-taking that manipulates perspective of a picture by using selective focus and a tilted and shifted camera movement.

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But it creates the same dizzy unreality of tilt-shift photography (not to mention fake tilt-shift photography).

Tilt-shift photography is the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene.

In comparison to Smallgantics, tilt-shift photography is a photography technique that can be used to give footage - still and motion - the illusion of miniature DOF, but it is not an accurate representation.

And that was the recent popularity of tilt-shift photography, that technique which takes a scene from the real world and converts it into a model village (you'll have seen it somewhere on television because it's very vogueish at the moment).

The opening sequence shot, which uses tilt-shift photography of day and night New York City scenes that make the city appear like a miniature model, features an announcer that announces that night's guests and house band Jon Batiste and Stay Human.

Benjamin "Ben" Thomas (born ca. 1981 Adelaide, Australia)) is an Australian photographer and author who is known for his conceptual photography, mostly centred on the subject of highly populated city and urban scenes utilising various techniques such as tilt-shift photography, mirroring and color.

The postcard introducing each performance included the logo in the colours of the performing country (e.g. the United Kingdom in red, white and blue); then a German place was shown in a toy-like view using tilt-shift photography and a story happened there, whose main characters were people either living in Germany or tourists from that country.