While the 'tilt-shift' technique is used way too often, but this video by Keith Loutit and Jarbas Agnelli is a perfect example of how awesome it can be.
How do you make a slow-motion and tilt shift video even better? Add a vocal track by Thom York. (via ohhaveyouseenthis.com)
Wait a minute… I see what you did there. (via laughingsquid.com)
Nice, France, shot over the winter with a Nikon D3100 in tilt-shift beauty. Marvelous.
“A Magical Day at Disneyland Paris” took more than seven months and 4,000 photographs to create. It makes the entire park look like one giant toy set.
Culture Buzz Tilt-Shift photography (which has had a long and happy life on the Internet) uses a special lens to create a shallow depth of field. What's so damn cool about it is that it makes everything looks like a miniature, toy version of itself. Here are a few particularly striking examples of the form.
Tilt shift photography is an awesome visual effect. You might have seen it used in “The Social Network,” during the boat race scene. The effect is used to perfection in this video from this years Coachella.
Culture Buzz Photographs of Van Gogh paintings with the light and focus manipulated, Tilt Shift-style to create an awesome 3D effect. More where that came from here.
Culture Buzz A day in the life of New York City, in miniature. Well not exactly, but shot in a time-lapse tilt shift photography, to look like it's in miniature. Directed by Sam O'Hare, original music by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.
Especially for New Yorkers: A reminder that there's not always snow blowing sideways. This gorgeous time-lapse, tilt-shift video, “The Sandpit,” is by Sam O'Hare. It's worth clicking to view in full screen and remembering what the sun feels like on your skin.
A video of a helicopter rescue exercise shot with tilt shift. Makes what could be a close brush with death, a toy-like warm and fuzzy experience. Yay!
A time-lapse, tilt-shift video of this year's Mardi Gras parade in Sydney. How do they get all those tiny lil plastic people to move so fluidly! Oh.
A site that makes transforming any picture into a fake tilt-shift image dead easy: TiltShift Maker. Even your over-exposed shots of fast food can look beautiful. Okay, so not so much beautiful as less trashy than usual.
By enhancing the focus on a central object and blurring the outlines, Tilt Shift video and photography trick the eye to make the images appear to be miniaturized. If you ask me, this kind of defeats the entire purpose of Monster Trucks, but it's still cool to watch.