With a standard lens, the vanishing perspective lines will distort the building into a triangular shape. One of the primary use cases for a tilt-shift lens is when capturing architecture or tall buildings.
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Screengrab from The Secrets of Optics – Image credit: Mitch Gross / AbelCineĪ good use for this effect would be shooting a driver and passenger in a car, where your camera is placed at the driver side window and you want to have both subjects in focus, without stopping the aperture down to dramatically increase the depth of field. Essentially, you’re arcing the front of the lens so that two subjects are both at a parallel angle of light. There’s an almost radial look to the out-of-focus area around the subject.įrom a filmmaker’s point of view, you can use a tilt-shift lens to shoot two subjects at an angle, while keeping them both in focus. Here’s a photo I took of my neighbor, using a Lensbaby Sol tilt-shift lens. Image credit: Slavik Boyechkoįor close subjects, this makes for an interesting stylistic effect. As you move the tilt-shift lens around, you can get a unique look where only a part of the image is in focus and the rest falls off into a blur. The immediate effect of this is you can change the depth of field to do things that a regular lens can’t do. So now you can essentially “see around a corner” or look sideways at an object. Unlike spherical lenses which have the mount and the body of the lens locked together, a tilt-shift lens frees the body of the lens to move around. The lesson on tilt shift lenses, or “shift and tilt” lenses as they’re sometimes called, goes into some detail about when it makes sense to reach for a lens that lets you manipulate the focal plane. In “The Secrets of Optics” course on MZed, educator Mitch Gross dedicates a module specifically to specialty optics and adapters. Let’s take a quick look at what you can do with a tilt-shift lens. Now that we seem to have more than enough cameras to satisfy our filmmaking needs, it’s a good time to focus on lenses, and in particular specialty lenses.
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