Everybody knows tilt-shift lenses can be used to get a “miniature” effect, but many photographers are oblivious to their other, more traditional applications, and even fewer understand exactly how these lenses work.
In this highly informative and easy-to-understand series of short videos, the LensPro ToGo team explain exactly how tilt-shift lenses work to alter the focal plane of your image without moving the sensor, and then give you some concrete tips on how to use this capability to shoot better, more creative photos.
Above you’ll find the “how it works” video, and below you’ll find three tutorials that cover how to capture the miniature effect, creative portraits, and better architecture photography using a tilt-shift lens.
If you’ve ever been confused at all about how tilt-shift lenses work, or why you might want to invest in (or rent) one, we definitely suggest taking the time to watch all four.
Tilt-Shift for a Miniature Effect
Tilt-Shift for Portraits
Tilt-Shift for Architecture
Sourse: petapixel.com
Education is always very useful, but I do wish writers would not make so many sweeping statements in an attempt to emphasise a point.
I’m pretty sure if you went out into the street and asked the first 100 people you met what Tilt and Shift lenses can do there would be barely one who mentions creating miniature effects. So, not ‘everybody’ knows that T&S lenses are used that way.
Also, if you asked 100 photographers about the use of T&S, I suspect a reasonable proportion would be aware of what they can do, other than miniaturisation, if not the how and why.
By all means write your articles, help expand the knowledge base, but less of the hyperbole, please?
I’m not really a big fan of how most photographers use tilt-shift lenses for portraiture. There’s this tendency to either
(A) shoot oddly framed wide-angle images with most of the space occupied by unnecessary details (such as walls), or
(B) have some irrelevant background details in sharp focus due to intersection with the plane of focus.
Similar to Lensbaby, it’s a tool with potential, but effective use of it is up to the photographer.
The best grounding to an effective working understanding of TS-E lenses is to have a background in large format photography, in any discipline. It is not an “overnight learning job”, but one that can take years. Shift alone, despite the at times fervent advertising of it, is not particularly useful for 98% of photography in small formats (that changes dramatically if there is shift + tilt or parallel movements) compared to applying it all the time with multiple supplementary movements in large format.
The hands gesturing just out of frame with the same gesture over and over detracts from the content.
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