Photographer Vincent Laforet has recently been getting a lot of attention for his aerial work with shift lenses. After seeing his feature in a recent New York Times Magazine, I decided I’d take out a few of our old shift lenses and go for a walk in the garden.
Typically used to correct distortion in architectural photography, shift lenses can also be used to create a false sense of closeness by mimicking an extremely shallow depth of field. Such a shallow depth of field — or the amount of the image that is in sharp focus — is usually only attainable when viewing a subject from a short distance.
You can hear Vincent speak on his techinique and see examples of his work with shift lenses HERE.
i like these…take more please!!
Comment by V — 6/16/2007 @ 3:24 am
If you want more tilt-shift photos, check out this flickr group of tilf-shift miniature fakes that I started a while back. After we got a mention on boingboing, our numbers have gone up past 3,000 members and 7,000 photos. It’s amazing how easy a little blurring in photoshop can make everything seem really wee.
Comment by Graham — 6/17/2007 @ 10:30 pm
sweet shots!
Comment by Chuck Olsen — 6/17/2007 @ 10:34 pm
Here’s an article from a recent issue of Make Magazine on how to create your own tilt-shift lens for peanuts:
http://www.creativepro.com/story/howto/25432.html?cprose=daily
Comment by Mark — 6/18/2007 @ 1:44 pm
yes, more please.
these are rad.
Comment by jd — 6/18/2007 @ 4:16 pm
Thanks! I may try again once the grass comes back.
Comment by Cameron Wittig — 6/22/2007 @ 10:20 am
Great pictures and Effects. I am a photographer in Miami ( http://www.paulopics.com ) and I thank that you did a great job.
Paulo
Comment by Paulo Jordao — 1/2/2008 @ 1:24 am