Tilt/Shift
January 24, 2008
A contact on my Flickr uploaded a few pics using the tilt/shift lens technique. I really like it, although I do not have a true digital SLR. I do have a 35mm film SLR that I could try to use. A homemade tilt shift lens can be made, but the real ones look nice!
And here is a link to the wiki article on the Tilt/Shift lens technique
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
Another cool picture “Miniature Santiago” was not taken with a tilt/shift lens, rather it was altered in photoshop.
http://www.vignetted.com/2006/03/18/miniature-santiago/
Oh…I was so curious so I did a quick photoshop test.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i240/nebulagirl/jan08/unblurred.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i240/nebulagirl/jan08/blurred.jpg
The blurs look quite artificial in all these. The city and the way the wall in front is half blurred makes no sence to me :P Nice miniatures i like ^_^
The blurring in the foreground and background is similar to the was a photo through a macro lens may look with low F-stop values.
Great consept playing with the sence of scale in such a way. ^_^ Even had me fooled till the artificialness took over.
http://www.vignetted.com/2006/03/18/miniature-santiago/
In this Santiago one for example its not the foreground and background blurred out depending on distance but a vertical oriented blur effect.
Just look at that wall in front and to the right of it. Both has the same rate of blurring while clearly not at the same distance. Also the wall itself should have a more moderate and horizontal oriented increase/decrease of blur.
Looks like the effect used here was meant for a perfect plane base with the subject placed on the focused part. Only then it would be near the use of macro lens, i think.
Same goes for the other fakes.