tilt shift photography

[dearlybeloved]

Is there a way to recreate this look without shelling out $2000 for a lens or is there a cheaper lens that I can look at?

Thanks

 

[Rick58]

Nikon PC?

 

[Railphotog]

You can have it done for free on this website: tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures

 

[amolitor]

You can get a complete working 4x5 view camera kit, and quite a good one, for under two grand.

 

[Rick58]

You can have it done for free on this website: tiltshiftmaker.com - Transform your photos into tilt-shift style miniatures

My mistake, I thought you were looking for corrective perspective control, not special effects

 

[Dao]

Is there a way to recreate this look without shelling out $2000 for a lens or is there a cheaper lens that I can look at?

Thanks

If you are going after the miniature type photos, yes you can do it in the post (even my cell phone apps has that function). If you are going after DoF (background / foreground in focus), it is harder to do in post unless you take a series of photos and stitch them together.

Someone post a thread in this forum about a manual focus TS lens made by Samyang which I believe (based on other lenses they released) should cost less and not bad optically.

 

[Designer]

Is there a way to recreate this look without shelling out $2000 for a lens or is there a cheaper lens that I can look at?

Thanks

I'm not entirely sure what "look" you are going for. Further explaination about the look would help.

 

[MLeeK]

Didn't someone here create a home-made tilt shift not that long ago? Try searching Tilt shift lens here. I remember thinking I was going to try it. Then got caught up in other things.

 

[dearlybeloved]

Wow lots of great responses! I will check all of these links out as soon as I get home. I will also check out this homemade tilt shift method.

designer, the look I'm going for is the name of the thread which is tilt shift photography.

 

[amolitor]

There are many different looks that can be achieved with 'tilt shift'. I'm sure you have one particular one in mind, and you think, therefore, that your title is crystal clear.

It is as if you have only seen a Monet and are asking 'how can I get that "painted" look?' without realizing that there are watercolors, tempera, and oils, and 1000 styles, to say nothing of paint that's applied to walls, houses, and cars. You know what look you want, but we cannot.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

designer, the look I'm going for is the name of the thread which is tilt shift photography.

Well, yes, but...

Are you planning on using it as intended, to move the focal plane to focus on angled subject planes?
Or are you just looking for the "miniature" effect, which is a fun unintended effect of using the lens "improperly"?

Also, do you know what the purpose of shifting the lens does, and is for?
It has nothing to do with the miniature effect.

So, it's a rather valid question to ask you specifically what you are looking to do, as only the miniature effect can be mimmicked via processing, but the other real purposes of a TS lens can't.

 

[GooniesNeverSayDie11]

Samyang supposedly will be announcing a 24mm TS lens for Canon, and Nikon and various other mounts at Photokina. Since their lenses range from like $300-$500 for the most part, this may be a nice budget way to break into Tilt-Shift shooting.

Samyang 24mm f/3.5 Tilt-Shift Announced « Canon Rumors