You know those weird toy-like soft focus pictures of actual scenes? It's called tilt-shift miniature or tilt-shift photography.
Here are some great examples:
Flickr: Tilt-shift miniature fakes
David Burnett's Olympic blog (check out the badminton photo)
I've always wondered how it was done. A little bit of snooping on the web revealed that there are two ways to achieve this effect:
1. Use a tilt-shift lens.
2. Use a photo editor like Adobe Photoshop.
Since I don't own such a lens, I tried it out in Photoshop. Click here to see how it's done in Photoshop CS3.
Here are my first attempts taken from the sixth floor of my company's lobby:
Originals:
For more information check out Wikipedia.
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