Sunday, March 1st, 2009...8:56 pm
Cheating At The Beach
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I took this today from the bluffs overlooking Corona del Mar here in Orange County. It was a stunning day, the weather was great, and it felt nice to be outside. As for the photo itself, I’ll admit to faking the tilt-shift effect in Photoshop, but it did help make an otherwise average beach picture look interesting. I think I’ll rent a real tilt-shift lens in the next couple of weeks and do it for real. In the meantime, this’ll have to do.
Update: I just realized that landscape (horizontals) appear pretty small on the blog. You can click on the image itself to see a bigger, lightbox’d version.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 6:19 am
What is the tilt shift effect? Is that the out of focusness (to use the technical term) of the objects further in the distance versus the in-focusness (again the technical term) of the objects in the foreground?
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:51 am
Kind of. What you’re referring to is basically depth of field which can be controlled by most any lens with aperture adjustability. Tilt-Shift lenses go one further by allowing you to change the relationship of the plane of the lense to the plane of the film/sensor. It’s often used in architectural photography to control perspective and increase focus across a wider distance, but can also be used really selectively focus on an area and give it a model-like feel. Almost like a diorama. See this link for some other examples.
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