Barbieri uses a perspective control lens to create shaloow depth-of-field, making his aerial photographs look like model photography.
From the website: He achieves the distinctive look by photographing from a helicopter using a tilt-shift lens--a method, he says, that "allows me to choose what I really like in focus: like in a written page, we don't read [it as an] image but one line at a time."
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