I’ve been taking a professional interest in photography recently. Via BB, horror photographer Joshua Hoffine keeps a behind-the-scenes blog showing and telling how he constructs images like this:

He talks about staging, lighting, etc. Lots of good practical stuff aside from the dull technical info I’m reading. Optics are only so interesting when the image is the thing.

Here’s a Disney chaser, alse via BB:

That’s called “tilt-shift” photography, which means the lens of the camera is shifted (transposed) to keep vertical lines parallel and tilted (rotated about the horizontal axis of the image plane) to shrink the depth of field to a narrow band in the center of the frame (a trick we glasses-wearing folk can use to play with our focii on-the-fly). These adjustments simulate how you see when your eye is very close to what you’re looking at (there’s no perceptible vanishing point and the object of your gaze fills your focal region).

If you then shoot time-lapse from fixed mounts it looks like miniature stop motion.