Karyn
My new video camera (did I mention I had a new video camera?) has the opposite function built in. It can blur out the foreground and background and increase the frame rate slightly to make a full size image look like it was a macro shot of something small.
That sounds like the 'tilt/shift' effect Karen - like the intro to Sherlock...
Cool effect, but they do tend to overuse it a bit on the telly.
If I remember correctly, Juliana did some fantastic photographs using that technique.