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“To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.”
― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The challenge this time is Tilt Shift..... however I do not own a tilt shift lens or a lensbaby, and I want to try something in-camera. After googling ideas, I came across a technique I had never heard of and honestly would not have thought would work. It's called free-lensing.
Literally free-lensing means detaching your lens, and holding it near the camera body. You can slightly tilt &/or shift the lens relative to the camera to alter the plane of focus. I was amazed at the outcomes. Getting the focus is difficult, especially when your point of focus is far (like mine was). Macro seems a bit easier to master as you can just gets closer to the image (I didn't feel like jumping off my balcony). Moving objects (i.e. my cats) were impossible to photograph with this technique at my current skill level. The light leaks were actually visually appealing and depending on the degree of tilt the bokeh that filled the image was lovely. The sharpness of the focal point was hard to achieve, but that may be my technique.
The hardest part is getting over the fear of dropping the lens (in this case off my 28th floor balcony)..... Note that I did not pull an accident like one of our beloved accident-prone Flickr stars (I won't name names, he knows who he is!! lol).
Moral of the story.... if you are brave enough to death grip your lens, are away from significant dust/dirt/water/etc that could damage your camera/lens, and want to try a fun new technique I recommend giving it a try!
GranTokyo South Tower (グラントウキョウ サウスタワー).
Designed : Murphy/Jahn, Inc. (デザインアーキテクト：マーフィ／ヤーン)
Architect : JR East Design Corporation (設計：ジェイアール東日本建築設計事務所).
Contractor : Kajima Corporation (施工：鹿島建設、鉄建建設、清水建設、大成建設JV).
Completed : October 2007 (竣工：2007年10月).
Structured : Steel Frames (構造：S造、SRC造).
Costs : $ million (総工費：約億円).
Use : Office (用途：事務所).
Height : 672 ft (高さ：205m).
Floor : 42 (階数：地上42階、地下4階).
Floor area : 1,506,947 sq.ft. (延床面積：140,000 ㎡).
Building area : 39,966 sq.ft. (建築面積：3,713 ㎡).
Site area : 56,284 sq.ft. (敷地面積：5,229 ㎡).
Location : 1-9-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, Japan (所在地：日本国東京都千代田区丸の内1-9-2).
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Well, that didn't quite work the way I planned. I was putting my lens cap beside the spider for perspective and it climbed right up!
This looks a bit like the bee hunting crab spiders I see in the garden. I wonder if they are related. This one was on a dish towel, in the house. I 'escorted' it outside where it posed for a few shots before carrying on its way.
The spacial relationship between objects in a photograph is perspective. Use perspective as our point of view In order to create a sense of dimension
Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster) photographed from the lowest opening in the camouflage hide in Greece.
Check out the difference from the photo of them from a higher perspective in the links below the line, and how much more interesting the lowest ones are!
(Bietere in Norwegian)
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I love how even the visible parts of the temples, inspire uplifting thoughts and actions, and give me perspective. The spires are prominent in the Chicago Illinois Temple. Just after I took this photo, I had to run to my car to avoid getting drenched in a heavy Midwest downpour.
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Funny perspective, this is a road not a path or track. Isle of Arran Scotland, the road is in ready to fell the trees. The road finishes abruptly at the tree line in the distance.
Life's perspective - walking in the grass we will probably miss a small mushroom, however if you get down to ground level, the perspective changes and you will see a new world. Same is with life.
It pays to look up. Admittedly, when I went to the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul (where this was taken), it was largely the exhibits I had in mind to photograph.
However, this was pretty spectacular. As I recall, there weren't any particularly dazzling exhibits in this section...but perhaps that was because they didn't want to distract from the architecture? :-)
You can see more shots of this historic city in my Istanbul set.