I've been pretty interested in fake Tilt-Shift photography for the purposes of simulating photos of miniatures. I narrow depth of field suggests the use of a macro lens. While this is a fairly kitchy form of photography, I think it relates to the work that I have been making recently and, in general, the things I am interested in about virtual worlds, synthetic realities and the metaverse on the whole.

The augmentation of these images takes a physical setting and changes it appearance in a way that suggests a different environment.

These photographs have such a high level of detail in places that I spend my time wanting to believe that they are miniatures but knowing that they are not. I oscillate between imagining a board on some sawhorses in a photo studio with lights set up and a photographer leaning over a tripod or perhaps in the basement of a small store with glass barriers around the scene so children don't touch the delicate models in what becomes this god like space anProxy-Connection: keep-alive
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the reality of the scenario that the photograph was taken in.

It is this magical moment when I am allowed, through the visual cues in the image, to imagine the scenario in which some crafts person created this scene in it's infinite detail that I am filled with an awe for the world that we live in.

The technique I used for these images was taken from the following web site: http://www.tiltshiftphotography.net/photoshop-tutorial.php

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