New York Resized
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Jason Leonard, how does the miniature photography thing work? Tilt Shift photography is fascinating to me because it’s a subconscious process of the brain. The brain knows more about photography than most people assume. Tilt shift mimics 'macro photography' by using blur in the foreground and background of the image. Our brains know that this kind of blur is a signal that ‘the scale must be something small’ even though some people rationally have no idea how macro photography looks. Subconsciously our minds are fed so many images in a day, that our brains are very good in ‘categorizing’ images, and thus fooling us when it comes to ’tilt shift images’. For ‘New York resized’ I used a homemade adaptor to create the blurry effect. I used mirrorless camera’s from Sony combined with canon lenses. I put them together with a piece of rubber glued on Sony – and canon attachments on either side. This allowed me to cover many different angle’s on the city. From 16mm (wide angle) until 640mm (Ultra zoom). Experience the wonder of New York through a tilt shift lens and behold “The Big Apple” as a tiny town. New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world. —Alistair Cooke. It was never built for the comfort and happiness of its citizens, but to astonish the world. —Susan Ertz. Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. —Robert Benchley. One belongs to New York instantly, one belongs to it as much in five minutes as in five years. —Tom Wolfe.