More Tilt Shift

The Canon 24mm  TS-E is awesome.  It's a bit different from using a view camera; takes a little getting used to the knobs and controlling the axes (took some brainpower to realize I needed to use the tripod head as a rear standard, not the lens).

Part of the the fun / trouble, is choosing between getting the lines vertical, or using the low depth of field (f/3.5) and miniaturizing things.  For the image with the statue, I took the image "out-of-whack," then corrected the lines in photoshop to try and achieve both effects.

Another cool use is to merge photos.  The image below of the door is actually three separate exposures - I simply shifted the lens, left, center, right.  In photoshop, I chose File > Automate > Photomerge - then followed the dialog box.  There's an article on this in the July/August Picture Magazine

Tilt Shift

Just received some lenses from Borrowlenses.com - a 100mm Macro, and a 24mm TS-E II.  I'm excited for both because they create much different looks than other lenses.  Also, I want to try some video with each of them - slow-motion closeups of bugs or turtles or something with the macro, and try the miniaturizing effect with the tilt-shift in Boston.

Anyway here are some images I just took with the tilt-shift.  It's also great for correcting lines in architecture, so more to come from this.  AJ, you would love this lens.

Tilt shift time lapse = awesome

Here's an interesting video, made with tilt shift lenses and time lapse. It's from Keith Loutit at http://keithloutit.com/


Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.