Tilt Shift photography

Decided to take a break from worrying about emigrating(!) to have a play with a technique called TiltShift photography.

There is a good tutorial here which covers the steps required in Photoshop.

Essentially, the idea is to try and reproduce a photo as if it were a miniature scale model. There are many examples on the web just google "TiltShift images",

The technique works best when photographing a busy scene from up high. I trawled through my online gallery, and found a good photo from my visit to Rome a few years back.

Here is the before:

And the after:

A nice effect!