If you like the idea of minutures but don't want to spend £200,000 for a dollhouse tiltshift generators were made for you. Or rather for your iPhone. 99 cents.
From Gavin Wray:
Playing with TiltShift Generator
I’ve been playing with TiltShift Generator by Art & Mobile to make some tiltshift images – altering the focus, blur and saturation to give the illusion that real objects and places are toy models.
There is an online version, desktop AIR alternative and iPhone app.
I prefer the desktop version as you can apply tiltshift effects to existing images. In the iPhone app, you’re limited to taking a photo with the built-in camera and then applying the effects – there is no option to choose an image from your phone’s photo library.
Here are some images I’ve created so far (also shared on flickr).
Plaça de les Drassanes, Barcelona
Maze in Chatsworth gardens
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Smashing Magazine also has an interesting portfolio:
...Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model. Below we present 50 beautiful examples of tilt-shift photography. All examples are linked to their sources. We strongly encourage you to explore other works of the photographers we’ve featured in this post.......MORE
