![]() ![]() Just like with anything else, it takes practice to get good shooting with a tilt-shift lens. A tilt-shift lens is also a great tool for macro photography, which can come in handy for wedding photographers like myself. A tilt-shift lens can do the same thing, just in a more creative way that most viewers aren’t accustomed to seeing. ![]() Just like with a normal lens, a shallow DOF (depth of field) allows the viewer’s eye to focus more on the focus point, while everything else falls away. Being able to control the focus plane allows for a portrait photographer to use a non-traditional perspective to put more emphasis on his subject. Over the past several years, it’s become more popular among portrait photographers to give more a creative and unique look that can’t be achieved with a regular lens. It’s a popular lens among architecture photographers for its ability to straighten lines and control distortion, and it’s a favorite tool amongst Landscape photographers as it allows deeper depth of field at a lower aperture to avoid diffraction, as well as just generally being sharper lenses overall. Today, there are actually many reasons why a photographer would use a tilt-shift lens. Initially designed by an Austrian military officer who developed the technique to correct distortion in his aerial photographs, the first lens manufactured for an SLR camera was in 1961, by Nikon – the 35mm f/3.5 PC-Nikkor. Hopefully, that helps, that’s how I used to imagine it when I was first trying to understand it. With the focus plane tilted, adjusting your aperture affects the depth of that sheet of glass, adjusting the focus moves it closer or farther away. The same rules apply with adjusting your aperture and focusing. That is how the focus plane will look with a tilt-shift lens. Now, if you tilt the lens, that sheet of glass tilts with it, staying parallel with the front element and not the sensor. Remember, the focus plane is infinite, so that large flat sheet of glass goes on forever. ![]() The best description I can give is, imagine the focus plane is represented by a large sheet of glass parallel to the camera’s sensor. Photo by: Douglas PolleĪs far as the tilt goes, that’s usually a bit trickier for most. Shifting the lens helps to straighten those lines out, and correct perspective distortion. Usually, when you have tall buildings, houses, or even tall trees, distortion can cause the lines to be distorted and look unnatural. Shifting the lens from side to side helps when you have lines in your image that can often get distorted. The shift part is usually a little easier to grasp, and isn’t used as much as the tilt. Yes, this can be a bit confusing, you’re not alone. You can also shift the lens, from side to side, usually as much as -/+ 12 degrees. With a tilt-shift lens, you can tilt the lens on an angle (usually around -/+ 8 degrees), giving a different perspective. Without getting in too deep, a regular lens gives you a focus plane parallel to your sensor When you shoot at a wide aperture of f/1.4, you can easily see the depth of the focus plane, but as you bump the aperture up, that focus plane becomes deeper and deeper. Also known as a ‘perspective control lens’, tilting and shifting the lens gives you the ability to maneuver the focus plane which is usually parallel to the camera’s sensor. 24mm – f/3.5 – ISO100 – 1/200Ī tilt-shift lens is a little tricky to understand at first, but truly understanding how a focus plane works is the biggest hurdle. Check them out here and at the link below. *Canon has just released 3 new tilt shift lenses. Sounds interesting, but what is the purpose, and how, or why would you use a lens like that? Well, I’m going to tell you – at least how I use one, and why it’s become such an important tool in my arsenal. Simply put, a tilt-shift lens is a lens that tilts and shifts, and throws the focus plane off. ![]()
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