My colleague Adam posted a link to a neat little video on his Pligg yesterday, and I have to say, I found it outstanding.

The creator of Eclectic 3.0 pieced together 15,000 still photos taken with a tilt-shift perspective control lens to create a fake miniature effect that looks like a stop-motion video.

We found some other great examples of tilt-shift photography, like Bathtub IV and this list of images at Smashing Magazine’s blog.

Tilt-shift photography is nothing new – the lenses have been available for almost 40 years or so – but I don’t think I remember seeing it until Adam showed me those links.

It is something that I’d like to try out for myself at some point – although I can’t find a tilt-shift lens that fits the Sony Alphas (although there may be an adaptor out there). Still, I’ve discovered that there are methods of replicating this technique in Photoshop. Although, I’ll need to get Photoshop or try it in Gimpshop (which I’ve just downloaded).