I take this as a compliment, as I tried to imitate a miniature model town. The village is photographed with a tele lens from a mountain. Then with very tedious post processing several layers of blur was added to amplify the tilt shift effect.

Since people are commenting this image is „fake“ or „ai“, here is the same scene shot from a similar location with a cheap smartphone:

Full resolution image and more details here

Also this is what our setup looks like to shoot such an image:

Austria ;)

It is actually a real village. The blur was added in post processing to imitate the tilt shift effect.

Thank you!

Thanks!

Star removal helps to edit the stars and the galaxy separately. At the end I added them back in

Hm yeah ..

Thanks!

Yes in austria

Yes it really is for that price point!

Thanks! With this focal length the star adventurer is more than sufficient.