Flickr Photo of the Day

1. no photoshop? looks altered

2. Cool. I’ve been seeing this style a lot. What is it called and how the hell do you pull it off?

3. It’s a faked tilt-shift, imitating an effect you get from using a specialized lens but doing it digitally

4. Aw, it looks like the little models at the beginning of Mr. Rogers. -Sarah

5. @2 – It’s called tilt shift. Hopefully wiki’s explanation will make sense.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_…

   I’d guess that this was done either in Photoshop (there’s pricey plug-ins for it, or you can achieve the affect manually), but there is also websites that you can upload jpeg’s to that will apply a simulation “tilt-shift” affect to them. Try Googling one of them, you’ll probably have some fun with’em.

6. Looks like a diorama.

7. it’s breaking into the mainstream consciousness for sure:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oK4nCqddc…

   i likey this classic one, though:

   http://www.vimeo.com/2317118

8. So tired of tilt-shift. SO TIRED OF IT.

9. @8: Then don’t look! 🙂

10. @6

    I like dioramas!

    http://www.billfinger.net/#a=0&at=0&mi=2…

11. Behold, the master:
    http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/olivo…

12. My opinion is that “tilt-shift” effects are boring and tired. Cheesy, even. A gimmick.

13. There’s a freaking iPhone app for it.

14. “dude, that band tilt-shift used to be so cool, but now they’re just poseur sellouts”

    one could predict though, if things trend as scheduled we should be in for a nostalgia wave for the “origin story of tilt-shift: redux” in about eight days six hours.

15. Science question! Why do our brains look at tilt-shift images and think they`re looking at miniatures? Yesterday a friend posted a picture of dollhouse furniture on Facebook, and even though the proportions were the same as a real table and chairs I knew even before reading the caption that these were mini. I got the same instant perception of smallness from seeing this picture, and had to take a second look to figure out that this actually a full-size scene. What`s up with that?

    Oh, and anyone who likes this stuff should google “Uniqlo Calendar.” Hypnotic time-elapse tilt-shift images of random places in Japan!

16. @15, it’s because of the narrow band of focus, and the monosourced light. Normal vision of scenes this far away would entirely be in focus; having the focus be narrow makes it seem like you’re really close, hence the scene is really small. That’s how you fake it; you blur everything outside the narrow range you want to concentrate on.

    The name comes from large-format cameras, or specialized architectural lenses for normal ones, that can tilt the plane of the lens in relation to the film plane, which causes this kind of focal effect. You can run the line of focus in all sorts of interesting ways with a moveable lens like this (see also the Lensbaby, which is a low-tech version of a tilt-shift lens).

17. Take a look at this http://www.uniqlo.com/calendar/

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