In response to my post on miniature cities, my friend Cosmo Wenman points me to another version of the same artistic impulse:
That article mentioned the appeal of tilt-shift photography: there are
several flickr photo sets devoted to taking photos of real cityscapes and
photoshopping them to look like scale models. The photoshopping reproduces
what an antique tilting bellows/accordian type camera would do: it removes
perspective distortion. That effect makes it looks like it was taken up
close. Oversaturating the colors makes it look artificial.
