Fun with a tilt/shift lens

A photographer friend of mine sent this video to me a while back and I came across it again today. I love it! It looks like a scene of miniatures but it's really a time lapse "video" shot with a dSLR using a tilt/shift lens. I believe it's all stills put together to look like a movie. SO COOL! I'm diggin' the song too...


Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.
From this blog.

*About tilt/shift lenses:
A tilt shift lens looks like a complicated little piece of equipment with movable parts, but it's pretty simple to use. I've never used one on a dSLR but I played around with one at KCAI on a 4x5 camera. The tilt controls the position of the plane of focus which results in a very shallow depth of field, so most of the image is out of focus except for a small area that is in focus. The plane of focus can be adjusted to make a large scene appear much smaller, as the shallow depth of field is similar to that achieved by a macro lens on miniature. You can't get this effect using a large aperture on a regular macro lens. Shift controls perspective, and this can result in some cool effects. Shifting is used a lot in architectural photography so that there is little to no distortion of lines. You can shift the lens to be parallel to the subject, instead of tilting the camera back to be perpendicular...catch my drift? Shifting lenses have a much wider field of vision than a standard lens of the same focal length. These lenses come with a pretty large price tag- around $1100 and up.