A day in the life of New York – in miniature

Know about tilt-shift photography? it uses a special lens, (usually aimed from a great height) which pretty much fuzzes out everything other than the object of the shot. I admit I don’t know much about its use other than pictures and videos of it used to make regular size objects look miniature.  You can also create the effect in post-processing by using blur in an image editing program. Now, imagine fuzzing out the edges of 35,000 still images of various New York locations, and stitching them together, and you’ll have this video, made by Sam O’Hare of Pixelpollen.com. Read the story about making it here.

Oh, and the soundtrack is magical – it’s original music by the band Human.

Oh, and while you can watch and enjoy it here, it’s best experienced on the site, where you can see it in HD, and full screen.

The Sandpit from Sam O’Hare on Vimeo.

A day in the life of New York City, in miniature.

Original Music: composed by Human, co-written by Rosi Golan and Alex Wong.

Please view in HD and full screen for best effect. For a description of the shoot, camera, lenses and workflow, please see here: http://bit.ly/aFmaPZ