Tilt Shift Photography

I read about Tilt Photography in the Whirlpool Forums and found it very interesting so gave it a try. Tilt Photograph is about distorting an image so that everything looks like a tiny miniature. It can be done with expensive lens or using Photoshop. Obviously the Photoshop ones don't look as good, but are still quite amazing.

My try at a miniature picture (above) isn't that great because there was a tutorial on how to use Photoshop to do it but since I don't have Photoshop, I tried using Paint Shop Pro but couldn't find all the same functions.

If the pictures are done properly, they should look more like something below.

Two good websites for seeing more of these types of photos are MetropolisMag and The Bitter Girls blog, which also has lots of other great photos. The blog is in Japanese so you wont understand any of it but the pictures are very good.