Miklos Gaàl is known for a lot of unique method of producing images by manipulating the camera and its abilities. Gaàl studied film, photography and graphics design between 1995 and 2004 at a place called “Tiak”, which is said to educate and promote people who are able to present their talents in a creative way. His work attracts people because of its toyish effect, meaning the subjects in his images look like they where photographed form a miniature scale, whilst including photographic skills like subject, angles and lighting. His method involves manipulating the perspective of the camera, mostly from a higher point, which looks down on an area or place which includes subjects which is a technique called “tilt Shitft”.

Gaàl’s images are described in his book through how his “views attract our gaze involuntarily by being markedly out of focus”. Showing how his images present a sense of confusion, uncertainty and mind manipulation. This shows how Gaàl’s images challenge the view of reality and how we perceive things constructed to us from birth, his work alters the world in a confusingly addictive way, where the image doesn’t make sense, but attracts the eye.

What is Tilt Shift?

Tilt shift is the method in which you manipulate the focal point of your camera in respect to the sensor on cameras and can now be bought as an adaption to your camera at a price, but is also possible through editing a regular image in a way which creates this effect of “tilt shift” and is mostly effective through being up at a high point. Which can make an image look like a miniature model of the place or make it look like an “ant world” in my opinion. For example:

Its aim is to make the focal point of a subject or area to become closer to the camera, whilst everything else almost stays in its place or becomes further away, and isn’t just used in landscape materials, but also for specific subjects, like a single building or large subject, but isn’t used for portraits, rather suburban areas.