"I branded the show Little Denver and made little logos and stuff because I think I might do a series of these," Toninelo says. This is his second year-end photography exhibit at the location, and he's already looking ahead to the future. Friday, December 7, to talk about the photographs and the tilt-shift process at a low-key First Friday reception. Toninelo himself will be on hand at 7 p.m. The series will be on display at Pablo's through December, offering a look at Denver from a different angle. "I really didn't care about the actual real stuff. "I went to architecture school, and I gave up because I realized I was there just to make mockups - the miniatures of the buildings," he says. The style is a perfect match for Toninelo's enthusiasm for the smaller things in life. Tilt shift employs a special lens to distort the depth of field, along with some post-processing effects that give photographs of real-world objects the appearance of miniature train sets. Specifically, Little Denver is a series of photographs of various city scenes, many of them iconic, that use a technique called tilt-shift photography to make our fair city look like a toy. Boys and their toys: Gio Toninelo is living the dream - and his wife doesn't mind. Q&A: Gio Toninelo, the man behind GI Joe Fest and Pond Patrol, on movies and miniatures "Now I'm kind of almost doing the opposite - actually shooting something real but making it look kind of fake." "I did the GI Joe stuff as realistic as possible, to throw people off," he explains. His latest effort is Little Denver, a photography series that inverts his previous photographic approach, which goes on display Saturday, December 1 at Pablo's Coffee. The Denver filmmaker and photographer is best known for his work on Pond Patrol and as curator of the GI Joe Film Festival, projects that saw him turning his passion for plastic men of action into compelling narrative.
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