OT: Tilt Shift Photography

Wilkinson4 · #1 03-06-2011, 08:32 PM

Have no idea what it is but this is cool:

Kerin

mIKE

Kevan · #2 03-06-2011, 09:14 PM

His other photo set of bikes is pretty cool:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kanipan...7611763888573/

Those don't appear to be tilt shilft. Rather, wide angle on some. Oops! That last photo is. Sorry!

DogpawSlim · #3 03-06-2011, 09:25 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

Not the greatest article, but tilt-shift refers to large format cameras, or lenses for smaller formats that emulate the effects of large.

On a large format camera, the lens is mounted to a board in front, and the film holder is mounted in the back. The two are connected by a bellows. If the two planes are square with each other when the picture is taken, you will have a normal looking perspective. If the planes are skewed (looks like this; \---/) you get some interesting effects, that's tilt. Shift is when the planes are parallel, but one is higher, or one is offset to the side.

Wilkinson4 · #4 03-06-2011, 09:32 PM

Tilt shift video. Would love to see some cycling vids in this technique

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk9EBOOAYiU

mIKE

onekgguy · #5 03-07-2011, 01:14 AM

The photos are ok but the video is where it's at.

Kevin g

victoryfactory · #6 03-07-2011, 04:59 AM

Tilt and shift was a very effective tool to control
perspective and focus in photos. You could bring areas of
your photo into or out of focus by adjusting the camera
lense's angle to the film plane. And you could use it to
do things like straightening out the convergence that you
get when shooting tall buildings, etc.

Enter Photoshop. Nowadays you can get most of the same
effects in seconds by using the skew commands in PS.
just make sure you shoot the original scene with enough
depth of field to make everything in focus because selective
or controlled focus can't be done in PS (you can blur or
loose focus but you can't increase it)

VF