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Galactic structures a billion, billion miles wide look like squirts of food coloring into a bowl of water with these tilt-shift photos.<\/p>\n

Typically used for architectural purposes, tilt-shift (or perception-control) lenses<\/a> move the plane of focus from being parallel to the cameras’s sensor or film, and instead places it at an angle by physically tilting the lens itself.<\/p>\n

When applied to a landscape, the photographer can put a long, sweeping area into focus.<\/p>\n

But when used the opposite way, the focal plane narrows down into a thin band, horizontally spanning one part of the sensor. The unfocused top and bottom part of the photo are thrown out of focus. It’s a similar look to that of a macro photo, when something small is taken at close proximity and is only in focus in a narrow plane, because of the way lenses tend to work (especially those left at wide apertures). And while the tilt-shift lenses are pricey, a similar result can be created with simple photoshop or smartphone app filters.<\/p>\n