Tilt-shift photography, the popular but fashionable method of making big objects look like tiny models, is now on the iPhone. That’s good for pretty much everyone who isn’t planning their innovative tilt-shift art show.
This is one of the most amazing pieces of eye candy I’ve found in a long time: A demolition derby–full of monster trucks, scrap cars, and even a giant Godzilla–filmed with tilt-shift photography, then put together in a time-lapse video. The final effect is extraordinary.
Tilt-shift lenses sit off-centre of the film (or sensor) plane of your camera to produce photos with extremely limited depth of field, giving the effect of a macro shot of a tiny scene. When the effect is matched with the surreal speed boost of many stills strung together into a time-lapse movie (here by Keith Loutit), we get the other-worldly privilege of seeing real Australian beach goers as an elaborate Playmobil scape. Or Sydney Harbour in a bath tub…
