Finding the Sweet Spot

03.08.2006 Filed Under: Blog, Photography4 Comments4 |

Recently, a fellow Toronto photographer, Hamish Grant had a small exhibit featuring some of his tilt/shift photography. It wasn’t the first time I was exposed to tilt shift, but it definitely reminded me of the unique art form. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford to go out and buy a special lens for their camera, especially me, considering the any of the Canon TS-E lens cost almost $1600. So I’m here to offer you a link to the next best thing, fake model photography. This cool little tutorial shows you step by step, how to create the same results in photoshop.

Link via Shutterseek

4 Responses to “Finding the Sweet Spot”

  1. on 08 Mar 2006 at 5:50 pm   Ryan Waddell

    I love this technique, but it definitely requires certain images to work properly. Funnily enough, my first attempt is far and away my most popular Flickr photo now.

  2. on 09 Mar 2006 at 6:50 am   Ryan Waddell

    There’s a flickr group dedicated to this stuff already, with over 1200 pictures! Funnily enough, my first attempt is now far and away my most popular image. I just realized it’s because it ended up in the Interestingness pool :)

  3. on 09 Mar 2006 at 6:51 am   Ryan Waddell

    Hey weird, my first comment wasn’t showing up until I made my second comment. Hrmph.

  4. on 09 Mar 2006 at 9:54 am   Hamish Grant

    Hi Rannie – thanks for the notice! Two things to add – one is that t/s lenses don’t have to be THAT expensive… Certainly the Nikon and Canon lenses are. But there’s a company out of Kiev called Hartblei who make t/s lenses of comparable quality, for a third of the price. They have an American distributor, Mikhail at kievcamera.com– I’ve purchased two lenses from him so far without any problems. Your readers might also like to see my page of links to galleries of and information on tilt-shift photography – just click my name to go there. Cheers! -Hamish

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