Toy Soldiers

Here, go feel like a giant...

(Timelapse video of a monster truck rally from gizmodo by Keith Loutit)

Pretty cool eh? Remember, those monster trucks are rather large, my friend. They certainly don't call them monsters for nothing. Well the main thing I want to highlight here is the cool technique used called tilt-shift photography. The effect achieved through this technique is to produce an image that makes anything a scene look like a miniature model. Jump on wikipedia for more information if you'd like. It has a sample image which really captures the desired effect.

(lol, the big red blur at the back is actually the blood from the audience tearing each other apart)

The monster truck images were done by Keith Loutit, who just absolutely loves to produce these tile-shift images. You can check him out here.

So, this really sweet piece of photographic magic that got me wondering, could i photoshop that? After all, it looks like you just gotta blur some stuff.

(Now that it looks like toy cars, we can be definitely sure they're made in china)

Here we have the massive celebration of the PRC's anniversary. A grand display of China's finest parading past the forbidden city. I gotta say, i've seen parades but the Chinese really know how to parade. I bet you could feel the ground tremble as they marched.

The original image was obtained from the boston.com website. Here's the image before, and after.

I found that the best images to use to produce this tilt-shift-miniaturization effect are those with objects or people that stand behind a building or structure. (for example, a bunch of cars or people standing in a field with a clear sky as backdrop wouldn't work) Here's another image I tilt-shift-shrinkerized, personally I think the effect is more pronounced in this one.

(image originally obtained from Juliana Loh) Here's the image before, and after.

Last note, here's another cool website that has totally tilt-shift-microsized practically the entire city of tokyo, the uniqlo calendar.