Tilt Shift

Christopher Schaarschmidt took 12000 pictures with his camera in a national Park in Saxon, Switzerland and created a miniature story of the area and set it to music, manipulating the depth of field.

Small Life in Saxon Switzerland from Christoph Schaarschmidt on Vimeo.

Christopher collected the photos throughout five days and compiled them to make a stop-motion type video that shows scenes from the town. These videos are very popular and I found it here, a site that shows some really amazing examples of this. The tilt-shift technique can be done with a special lens, but it can also be created on your computer. It mostly involves creating a focus point, usually in the center of the footage, and blurring everything around it.

Below is a simple tutorial on one way to create tilt shift (a more simplified version then some of the others I found)

This is another amazing one I found that takes place in London using 25850 images! The site also included instructions from the creator of the video.