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Columbia River Gorge - tilt shift experiment
I got the Canon S95, which has a "tilt shift" feature. I tried it out on this town in Washington state along the Columbia River. It turns out the feature is simple fakery: (1) it blurs the top and bottom of the image, (2) it saturates the colors. Part (1) only works when the top of the image is stuff that's far away and the bottom of the image is stuff that's close up. I was mildly disappointed that it's faked using that assumption, instead of a lens that defocuses for stuff that's *actually* far away or close up, but I guess a lens that can do that is impractical for a pocket camera. The results, as shown in this photo, are a reasonable approximation of what I want, but only when shooting down on something from a high vantage point (in this case, a hill overlooking the town).
Columbia River Gorge - tilt shift experiment
I got the Canon S95, which has a "tilt shift" feature. I tried it out on this town in Washington state along the Columbia River. It turns out the feature is simple fakery: (1) it blurs the top and bottom of the image, (2) it saturates the colors. Part (1) only works when the top of the image is stuff that's far away and the bottom of the image is stuff that's close up. I was mildly disappointed that it's faked using that assumption, instead of a lens that defocuses for stuff that's *actually* far away or close up, but I guess a lens that can do that is impractical for a pocket camera. The results, as shown in this photo, are a reasonable approximation of what I want, but only when shooting down on something from a high vantage point (in this case, a hill overlooking the town).