I’ve been enamored with the whole tilt-shift photography thing lately. Tilt-shift photography, in case you didn’t know, is where photographs are taken with a special lens called (you guessed it) a tilt-shift lens. The result is that real-life things look like painstakingly-crafted miniatures. I know absolutely eff-all about photography, but you don’t have know an f-stop wheel from a flash shoe to be able to appreciate a pretty picture.

Recently (well, a year ago), Smashing Magazine published a cool collection of tilt-shift photographs, of which I’ve picked out my favorites here. If you have exactly the same taste in things that I do, this section of the blog post will be a real time saver.

There’s a bunch more, so go check it out.

Recently, Speedicut, who knows me like the backside of his dueling glove, sent me a link to this masterpiece:

Then he sent me a link to an article that tells you how to make your very own tilt-shift lens, which is also pretty neat. Check it here: Build a Tilt-Shift Camera Lens for Peanuts

Well, that’s about where my interest stops. I’ve never been too handy at crafting things in the real world, where I routinely feel as though I am wearing a baseball mitt on each hand, even on the days when I’ve forgotten them at home.

But you, my magnificent reader/photographers, YOU are urged to create some cool tilt-shift photography for me, and the rest of the world, to enjoy.

Tags: camera, lens, photography, tilt-shift

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