Tilt & Shift

An old colleague of mine got in touch recently. Mat's a fellow design. He's really good. 

Anyway, he showed me some of the stuff he's been doing and amongst it was a job that embraced the Tilt & Shift photographic technique. It's amazing.

If you're not familiar with it (you probably are, but I wasn't) it's the magical, in-camera technique of making big things seem small. Kind of the opposite to what Gerry Anderson did with his Supermarionation work (apparently, there's a Photoshop cheat technique but there's no substitute for the real thing).

Mat worked with Andy Pendlebury in Nottingham but not surprisingly, there's lots of it on Flickr, like the brilliant work of Guillaume Payen (shown here) and numerous Pools.

Mat pointed me at this really interesting thing from the New York Times and this from Metropolis, both of which fuelled his idea.

 

Comments

[mobila]

coool!)

[Sean]

Nice post. You might also like the work of the *Bitter Girls. The real masters of Tilt Shift

[Joe Tanner]

Check out cityshrinker.com

in my opinion, the best ts site on the web