Ben Thomas' photographs cast cityscapes and scenery in a new light: miniature. To achieve his preferred scaled-down look, also known as tilt-shift photography, the Australian artist manipulates lenses on his cameras to increase the focal depth of the shot. The technique causes the subjects appear much smaller, as though a tiny diorama or elaborate small-scale models.
Thomas recently posted a new series of works from Japan, capturing charming, vibrant images of life in Tokyo, shrinking down scenes captured on busy city landscapes. His latest body of work contains streets teeming with cars and pedestrians, a sumo wrestling match (pictured above), a baseball field crammed in-between skyscrapers; the series even includes an eerily abandoned carnival.
Tilt-shift photography, sometimes called faked miniatures, has garnered a large audience on Flickr and beyond.
[via Notcot]
[Photo via Ben Thomas' site]
