Generally speaking: I do agree that the degree of blur in the examples is a bit too obnoxious. It was exaggerated for effect, and dialling it back a bit would b

Generally speaking: I do agree that the degree of blur in the examples is a bit too obnoxious. It was exaggerated for effect, and dialling it back a bit would be a prudent move. As far as the tilt-shift look goes - being precise I think you're thinking of tilt-shift miniaturisation. In cases where you're shooting with really shallow depth of field - like wide open on a portrait lens, or with a large format camera or yes, a tilt-shift lens in the anti-Scheimpflug mode - you absolutely can have foreground elements blurred out. I wrote a bit about that here: https://bhautik.org/tilt-shift-a-diy-guide/ https://bhautik.org/tilt-shift-a-diy-guide/ I'd love to look at the source image for your example; some of this is explainable, some not so much and I'd like to understand why. The sharp aliasing around the edges is weird, and that looks like a legit bug, as well as the blur leakage (we're trying to prevent that!). Also, it looks like the depth was incorrectly estimated for the feet so it's lumped them into the foreground and blurred those too. An easy fix is to suggest trying it with less blur, but there's other stuff going on. We'll look into it :)