"That’s why I often work with the tilt-shift effect, a creative technique that selectively blurs certain parts of the image ...

[Bhautik] is on version 2 of his tilt-shift lens, and wrote in to share what he has learned. Some aspects of the design on version 1 made it a bit quirky to use. You had to hold the lens in place ...

The technique has been around since the early days of photography. In 1962 Nikon introduced its first tilt-shift lens for its SLR camera. Now there's software that can help you achieve the same ...