Comments on: Tilt-shift Photography

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:29:21 +0000

Sadly, the HP ad link at endgadget is down pending someone getting permission from HP.

Of course the HP site doesn’t feature their new ad campaign, either.

By: Maddog

Maddog — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:37:17 +0000

Watching tilt-shift made me realize that we live in a tilt-shift world now. Foreign policy is not real it’s tilt-shift! Domestic policy, politicians, everything is tilt-shift!

How much to buy back my reality?

Mark Sherman

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:17:29 +0000

TJIC: You’re behind the times. Season Two has new credits, no tilting-shifting in sight.

By: Salmon

Salmon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:03:30 +0000

Since Iã€€know nothing about that, Iã€€feel it is good and beautiful.

By: Eddie

Eddie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:49:49 +0000

eddie: A lot of our experience with film and image is based on our media culture. If you took a standard movie and showed it to a pre-cinema audience they’d have trouble following the basic narrative. Conventions of montage and various transitions indicating passage of time and such would be totally jarring to those unfamiliar with the modern semiotics of film.

By: TJIC

TJIC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:39:19 +0000

Make magazine had an article on how to make a lens adaptor for a 35 mm camera a year or so back.

Also, note that the title credits for Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse” use this effect.

By: James

James — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:09:28 +0000

@Highway

While you’re correct, it was “previously” accomplished by tilting the entire standard on a view camera, long before the likes of Canon or Nikon made specialized lenses.

Also, these don’t look digitally done to me. None of the attempts I’ve seen to do this in post processing look this good, so I’m guessing they just slapped a t/s lens on there.

By: SB7

SB7 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:06:13 +0000

I was going to mention that tilt-shift has only recently been done digitally, but I was obviously beaten to the punch several times over. I can point out a trick for spotting the digitally-created effect vs the real thing. With analog tilt-shift photos vertical objects should remain equally in focus along their entire heights since they are equally far from the lens. (Assuming the photo is taken along a roughly horizontal axis. Adjust accordingly.) A tilt-shift created in post will often blur the bottom of a vertical object like a lamppost and leave the top in focus.

By: Captain Obviousness

Captain Obviousness — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:05:35 +0000

FYI the Engadget link is broken now…

Tilt shift is awesome… first came across it several months ago with this video (given the music and the location, same guy who did the HP/Engadget one?)

By: eddie

eddie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:30:36 +0000

More seriously: it’s remarkable the way the illusion’s very existence depends on the viewer having already been trained to expect that small object photography has shallow depth of field and that jerky motion pictures are a result of stop-motion animation using miniature models.

Someone with an isolated cultural upbringing wouldn’t “see” the same things we do when looking at these movies.