AlanLichty
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A view of the salt pans in the Badwater Basin by moonlight. An experiment in extreme DoF using a tilt-shift lens with a single shot image.
C&C always welcome.
C&C always welcome.
Focusing with tilt requires a lot of patience and the use of Live View with the ability to magnify. I learned how to use tilt in archaeological field school with a 4x5 Graflex Speed camera and I found it more intuitive using a loupe under the hood than trying to make my TS-E lens do the same thing on a DSLR.Tilt shift is amazing for it's ability to get deep DOF and also eliminate distortion by using shift to adjust the horizon. I sold my TSE lenses because I could not focus them, but that was my fault not the lens fault.
Thanks - Mine gets used a lot more for shifted panorama shots than extreme DoF. Much easier to set up than getting tilt focus right.Nice one Alan.
I always wanted to get a TS for my Canon BITD, but couldn't afford it. Once I moved to Sony they don't have one and it wasn't worth using an adaptor. Now it seems cheaper and lighter to just do focus stacking, although like Ben points out DOF isn't the only reason to use a TS.
Thanks - The best ones I have seen were in other people's images of the placeLooks nice in the moonlight. I never had any luck with finding the polygons there.