Tilt-Shifted Melbourne Skyline.

BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
edited January 27, 2009 in Landscapes
Tilt-shift photography is a creative and unique type of photography in which the camera is manipulated so that a life-sized location or subject looks like a miniature-scale model.
But when I was crawling around up there to get the shot, there was nothing miniature about that drop!!!
All the best,
Andrew

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  • squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    interesting... i thought it was just a type of lens that allows you to tilt the point of focus and blur the rest of the image, like the Lensbaby system...

    still, i like this. not sure where you were when you took it, but it looks perilously close to the edge!
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  • AbiciriderbackAbiciriderback Registered Users Posts: 191 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    Very cool I really like the effect of TSE lens were you using a 24 or 90mm?

    Ray Still
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    squirl033 wrote:
    interesting... i thought it was just a type of lens that allows you to tilt the point of focus and blur the rest of the image, like the Lensbaby system...

    still, i like this. not sure where you were when you took it, but it looks perilously close to the edge!
    Yes you are right it seems to have taken on a second meaning!
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    Abiciriderback wrote:
    Very cool I really like the effect of TSE lens were you using a 24 or 90mm?

    Ray Still
    Ray this is the first one I have ever taken...you sound like you know heaps more about it than me. I've been borrowing lenses from mates left right and centre. I can't remember what I had attached!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11doh.gif
    I'm just experimenting and having fun!
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • frelfrel Registered Users Posts: 41 Big grins
    edited January 25, 2009
    Blinkings wrote:
    Yes you are right it seems to have taken on a second meaning!
    In fact the initial idea behind this kind of lenses was somehow to reduce the blur/perspective effects for either architecture or aerial photo. So it was the opposite intend to the way many people are using it today.

    But well this "miniature" effect is still funny and you have here a nice execution ;)
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  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Thanks for all the great info. Here's another from Australia Day...which is today! That train was a huge diesel that seemingly stretched for miles.
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    A closer view of the train.
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    View of city from The Shrine
    :)
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Half Moon Bay
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Land under construction, below The Southern Star Observation Wheel.
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • jeffmeyersjeffmeyers Registered Users Posts: 1,535 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Looks like you've got the technique down, Andrew. This is good work. And fun, too! Check out my It's a Small World gallery.
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    These are so cool. I'll have to try this some day. thumb.gifthumb.gif
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  • mercphotomercphoto Registered Users Posts: 4,550 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Very cool stuff you capture. Well done.

    I rented a Canon T/S lens once. A lot of fun! But I found you need to practice a lot, trying different tilts, different shifts. I would imagine you eventually learn what types of scenery work best, what adjustments work best, etc. Have been wondering for some time how to use such a lens with car photography.
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  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Yes there are some types of shots that I couldn't really make work. I found the shots from above had been the best!
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    The Yarra River.
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • BlinkingsBlinkings Registered Users Posts: 124 Major grins
    edited January 26, 2009
    Melbourne Dog!
    All the best,
    Andrew
  • coscorrosacoscorrosa Registered Users Posts: 2,284 Major grins
    edited January 27, 2009
    These are very cool! I'm going to have to try that narrow DOF/Tilt-shift effect out, I have a bunch of skyline photos that need to be revisited...
    Ron Coscorrosa

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