... something about tilt-shift-photography

Hi there deviants!
Some weeks ago I discovered an interesting and very funny-looking photo-technique: Tilt-Shift-Photography (Wikipedia: [link]). Most interesting: The miniature-faking.

Before I go further into detail - here are my tries with it:

City: :thumb137008540: ([link])
Village: :thumb137008754: ([link])
Mountain: :thumb137008615: ([link])
Rails: :thumb137008700: ([link])
People: :thumb137746024: ([link])
(edit: damnit only premium members can insert pictures...)

As you can see - everything looks like toys.

Originally these pictures were made by tilting the lense. But since these tilt-shift-lenses are veeeery expensive - I did it digitally by blurring specific parts of the image.

You can find lots of tutorial about this technique. Here on deviant for example: [link]

Some advices from my side ...
Optimal conditions for the source image:
- elevated position
- only few dof-blur (since you want to add blur by yourself)
- bright sunlight with hard shadows
- high contrast + intensive colors
Basically the same conditions when you would photograph your model trains (or some miniature city, .. whatever).

Would be glad to see some results by anyone
If you have questions - feel free to ask.

Greetings
Philip