Tilt and Shift photography is the use of movement by the lens to alter your point of perspective and focus. A traditional camera lens will pretty much capture what you are seeing with your eye and project it on to the sensor. But a Tilt and Shift lens will change the position of the image on the sensor, adjusting the lens’ perspective.
“Tilt–shift” encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Taken from Wikipedia
The two images below show how using a Tilt and Shift lens can change the perspective lines. When you stand in front of a building and look, the lines of that building will appear to be getting closer together as you look towards the top. Using a Tilt and Shift lens will straighten those lines.
Landscape or City photographers would use this technique for a more pleasing to the eye outcome.
Below are three examples of other peoples photographs where the Tilt and Shift has been used to create the feeling of a toy town.
I don’t have a Tand Shift Lens how ever in post production you can use a filter to produce the same effect. Using the filter in this way on landscapse can give a different illusion of size. It can make the focused area appear to look small and model like.
Below is my first attempt at producing a Tilt and Shift image through Photoshop. I quite like it as it adds a very different perspective on this well known view. However, it hasn’t quite given the desired effect. I should have positioned myself at the top of the hill and shot from looking down. I need to look for more vantage points on the future.
These next photographs I took, I had Tilt and Shift in mind. You can see how the people are starting to look like small model figures.
I have exagerated the gradiant here to see the outcome.
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