OcUK Photo Comp - Season Ten : Round Five - "Tilt Shift" DISCUSSION

Kamakazie! said:
I'm lucky that the E-PL2 has a similar effect built in for this one!

What happened to the Metal thread? Does it get taken down for judges comments?
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The entries thread is archived, as above, and over the next month we mark it to release the results around the 27thish.

We (the judges) thought it was quite a fun theme. The competition is meant to make people explore techniques and ideas they wouldn't normally use / think of. If the limit of that is PS, then that's fine, but perhaps someone will borrow / rent / otherwise acquire a real tilt-shift lens and properly stretch their experience and boundaries

There's always some people that don't like the theme choices, whatever they are, so get over it :p If you don't like it, you should have won last time around, shouldn't you ;)
 
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I've had a go at freelensing, not sure I'm happy to try it again though! :D

Also google DIY tilt-shift lenses, it looks like fun :)

Essentially though I'll probably just be adding to the pool of millions of miniature type shots!
 
Well as a total noob in everyway shape and form, but from sum1 who loves photo's..... I have no intention of EVER paying £1500+ for a TS i've done the easy option and have been enjoying drunkenly messing about with this..... AMAZING topic, thank you ocuk....

A shot i took in Kenya gives whole new meaning.... fantastic!

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My entry updated.

This time TS-E 25 plus an ND10.

Hmmm... should I explain that for the benefit of the people who are new to the technique?

I have used the tilt in a 24mm tilt and shift lens. The lens is tilted towards the ground to move the focal plane from being vertical to near horizontal. This gives me the opportunity to get the groves in the concrete in focus at the same time as getting the detail in the cliff sharp.

Screwed on the front of the lens is an ND10 filter. This gives 10 stops of darkness. On this bright, sunny day, I was able to wind all the way out to a 30 second exposure, which gives the glassy effect on the pond, adds a dynamic effect to the sky as the clouds move and reduces the detail of the people having a picnic - they are still there but they don't attract so much attention.

Andrew
 
I think most people assume the toy town effect is what the lenses are for, so it's probably a good thing that you've pointed that out. I quite like your image too :)
 
ElDude said:
I think most people assume the toy town effect is what the lenses are for.
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One of the primary uses is for perspective correction. Looking through the shots that we took yesterday, here are a couple of un-retouched photos. This is by Steeps, at 10mm on a crop body:

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This next one is mine, from pretty much the same position, using the TS-E 24mm on FF, with quite a large amount of tilt to correct the perspective:

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The point being that my pillars are standing upright.

Truth be told, I am still trying to learn about this new lens. the focus in my image is very soft at the top of the pillars due to the tilt. I think I should have been using shift instead.

I need to be more patient. With the ND10 on the front, you can hardly tell what is in the frame, let alone what is in focus. Most of the setup is done using live-view and wandering laboriously round the frame in maximum magnification mode to pixel-peep at the focus quality.

Andrew
 
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