I learned something today. Hooray! My friend Dylan sent me this link earlier this morning:
50 Beautiful Examples of Tilt-shift Photography (Vincent Laforet in Smashing Magazine)
The images are really cute--using a tilt-shift lens (or creating the effect in Photoshop), these photographers make huge real-life scenes look like miniature models.
Toni Hafkenscheid has some interesting T/S landscapes in his fine art section:
http://thphotos.com/index.html
http://thphotos.com/index.html
This article: http://photo.net/equipment/canon/tilt-shift How Shift Lenses Change Your Life was written by a guy named Frank Sheeran in 1997 & explains what tilt and shift are and how you can use them to manipulate your images. He explains how it is useful for taking a picture of a mirror without showing your reflection AND while avoiding a parallelogram effect. ...i always wondered about that... He also explains that back in the day when cameras all had bellows, adjusting your tilt and shift to control perspective was just as common and necessary as adjusting your focus and selecting your shutter speed & aperture. Seems like the sort of perspective control that tilt & shift offer the photographer is pretty handy... as of his writing, Canon didn't offer an acceptable 35 mm lens option--according to Mr. Sheeran, at least--I wonder if that has changed since 1997.
I tried to find tilt-shift portrait photography but didn't really find anything of note, yet.
Dennison Bertram has a tutorial for making your own T/S lens using a small plunger...
He has a portrait posted at the bottom - that is pretty much the only one I found. Surprising, I would think this would be a fun effect to apply to portraiture...
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