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using this lens for architecture is easy enough, but when i'm just walking around taking pics i have no idea what i'm doing. i do something cool and then take 20 minutes figuring out what i just did.
attempting 'Tilt Shift' to a couple of shots from the Hilton in Manchester. Old and new trams visible below looking quite toy-like.
Ironic take on "fake tilt shift". So fake that the optical axis is not even tilted relative to the picture plane. You guessed it, it is a model (duh). Some extra blurring was added at the front to narrow the depth of field further, making it a true fake. Smiling boss and colleague inserted to liven up the picture. The map position points to the position of the model in the Karlavägen 100 foyer. Had the picture shown the actual building, it would have been taken from a few stories up in a residential building off Banérgatan, about 100 m east of the map point. The clouds formerly resided over the Croatian island of Cres in 2004 and were taken from a holidy snap, overlayed with a gradient for that "Cokin creative filter ad" effect. All done in Micrografx Picture Publisher 8 (if it works, why replace it?).
This is a "tilt-shift minature" fake of a lake cruiser on lake Brienze in the beautiful country of Switzerland
Mathieu Gregoire, 1994, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, center courtyard area and the great lawn – A series of granite stones shifting from natural boulders to refined and polished geometric shapes. Water flows from a large weeping rock and ends in a formal geometric pool at the entrance to the Great Lawn.
Water in the desert. Mojave River still running in the spring of 2011. Shifted around a bit to get this shot when the train finally arrived. Had heard it coming, so came over from the campground to find a spot to photograph it.
Rejected by railpictures for:
1. bad balance. I recropped to put the engines in the upper left third, which is what you see here. Originally, I wanted more symmetry up and down.
2. bad dynamic range or overexposed (this version).
3. backlit or not enough sun on the side of the train (version where I tweaked the levels and it looked a bit darker overall. not shown here.).
#2 is funny because I underexposed this and most of my shots by -1ev. Also, the levels were full showing no gaps in dynamic range. Maybe the water could have had more contrast.
#3. is funny because in fixing #2 it ruined the light on the engines. I guess I could have done some masking, but I didn't really agree with #2 anyway.
The shadows are weak because the sun was so low, but I'm pretty sure the light was at a good angle here. Definitely seen worse. Whatever, bottom line when you get to 3 rejections is that they didn't like the photo. I do wish the foreground was less messy, but I thought the light was good.
rented a canon tilt/shift lens for the weekend to try it out. just a few shots from the house now I'll be heading out to get something worth keeping !!!
As part of the Power Shift 2011 Conference, thousands joined the polluter protest at the White House, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and at the headquarters of dirty energy industries.
Over 5,000 young climate leaders joined AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Cherri Foytlin of Gulf Change, and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben at a polluter protest in front of the White House this Monday. They demanded that the President and Congress stand up to Big Polluters, protect the Clean Air Act, and make corporate polluters like BP pay for their pollution.
As part of the Power Shift 2011 Conference, thousands joined the polluter protest at the White House, the U.S Chamber of Commerce, and at the headquarters of dirty energy industries.
Over 5,000 young climate leaders joined AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, Cherri Foytlin of Gulf Change, and 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben at a polluter protest in front of the White House this Monday. They demanded that the President and Congress stand up to Big Polluters, protect the Clean Air Act, and make corporate polluters like BP pay for their pollution.
Photo Credit: Shadia Fayne Wood
A closer view which shows a NOS bracket (silver) and new replacement washers mounted on NOS shifter tube.
Strobist Info: White shoot-through umbrella behind the camera, assistant with silver umbrella shading the model from the harsh sun camera left.
This marks the return of my tilt and shift lens, I hadn't used it for ages, but a couple of images from "Lighting for Portrait Photography" inspire me to dig it out and use it on a shoot that I was assisting on. I tilted the lens as far as it would go and set it to f2.8 so that I could just put the plane of focus through the model's eyes. I deliberately burnt out the background and also overexposed the foreground a little. Huy, very kindly held up a silver brolly to put the model in the shade so that she wouldn't squint in the bright sun and it also allowed me to control the foreground and background simultaneously.
I did make a mistake with the tilt on this series, I put the plane of focus through the eyes and down to the ground, which meant that in some of the images there were sometimes things in focus that shouldn't have been, like the car, I should have put it into the sky.
storm clouds of the afternoon
break and shift into evening
lifting veils of snow to
reveal the moon, day-after
full, yet so bright that
from the hut windows where
we enjoy dinner and fire
the darkened illumination
of trees in low contrast
awakens the forest
in moonlit relief -
too much to just sit and look at -
just an inclination at first,
M62 Motorway passing Hartshead Services on the M62 near Brighouse, West Yorkshire.
Fake Tilt Shift applied with GIMP