What is this type of photography called? With the blurred edges

it's called tilt-shift

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Can you do it with videos?

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nevermind. Google says yes.

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>>6707766
this one is absurd. saved

>>6707751
There's a nice scene in The social network entirely in tilt shift, check it out !

>>6707751

there is also a 3-min show called tiny world or something that does this

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>>6707738
It's called tilt-shift. Caused by high depth of field or moving the camera around a point. Most of the stuff you'll find as WPs is 'fake', edited to look like the real thing.

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Not that fake is bad (see this pic, obviously can't be real). Most people are sloppy though, and mess up when blurring objects parallel to the camera lens but at an angle to the ground (like tall buildings, lampposts etc.)

>>6707751
Yes, you can. See https://vimeo.com/1953467

Another interesting effect is parallax around a point, no clue what that's called. I've got a vid, can't find it hosted online though.

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>>6709060
>Caused by high depth of field or moving the camera around a point.

Why even bother commenting if you don't know?

It's called "tilt-shift photography" because it is performed with a tilt-shift lens. It has nothing at all to do with moving a camera around. They're heavily used in architectural photography, since taking a photo of a tall building from the base means that the edges of the building will appear to converge toward the top. The tilt-shift lens uses an internal diaphragm and lenses that can be shifted on an angle to change the perspective, such that the edges of the building would appear to be parallel.

If you use the lens to take a picture of distant objects, you will get the effect that you see in these tilt-shift photographs, where objects on a certain horizontal plane will appear in focus and compressed, while objects outside of it appear out of focus and elongated.

Pic related, it's a tilt-shift lens.

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>>6709230
There's the mechanical explanation - the reason things look small when a tilt-shift lens is used is also pretty simple. When you look at something close-up, the lenses of your eyes are unable to completely bring the object into focus, creating out-of-focus areas in the foreground and background - obviously this is replicated with tilt-shift, creating the illusion that the subject is very close/small.

Feel free to trash me if I'm wrong, it's been a while but I think this is right.

So many of these shots are fake Tilt-Shift (sadly).

In /p/ we see a lot of tilt shift and you can spot a fake after a while - objects in real tilt-shift tend to be either in or out of focus, not half blurred from top to bottom.

If something is blurred, but something further away isnt, its fake. So >>6707739 is fake because the street lights in the middle blur at the top but the cars behind are sharp. The blur has just been laid over the picture in photoshop.