![]() With a tilt-shift lens, you can have the power and freedom of capturing the angle you want whilst being able to play around with negative space or passive space for cover images, simply by adjusting the shift function up/down or side/side. Especially when shooting images for potential cover shots, packaging or when text is to be applied. The struggle between getting the ‘correct’ or most flattering angle of a dish and being able to capture the subjects around it is real. I guess I can’t say for certain without asking the photographer, but images like this, this and this are now possible with a tilt-shift lens.Īllowing you to capture that delicious combo of super in focus front dish and blurry everything else that differs visually from my 105mm Micro. I ‘read’ a lot of photos and some of my favourite images I am starting to see must have been shot with a tilt-shift lens. Well, there are a lot of images that I am now seeing were potentially shot with a tilt-shift lens in food photography, and that’s why I wasn’t able to replicate its aspects. Have you ever admired a photo and tried to replicate it’s technical aspects only to find that you failed miserably? This is really powerful for shooting cover or product/packaging images. You can selectively control the plane of focus, allowing the dish at the front of the image to be super in focus, whilst the background story is superbly out of focus.Īngle/subject position control. You can shoot a dish in its most flattering angle, and control how much of the story/props around the frame are included without changing the camera angle, distance or the subject placement. Using a tilt-shift allows us to have control over the plane of focus to give the mix of focus and blur we see in this shot. There are two main reasons for using this lens for food photography, (and no surprise there is one for the tilt function and for the shift function). If that didn’t leave you totally confused, I’m sure you’re eager to know how a lens like this would improve your food photography.Ī number of commercial and professional food photographers use this lens, with a fellow advertising food photographer sharing with me on Instagram that he almost exclusively shoots commercial jobs with his tilt-shift. Create your own life-like miniatures.Using a Tilt-Shift Lens in Food Photography Tilt shift-photography is a really interesting type of photography. If you choose a photo that does not have lots of depth cues, you will not be able to see good tilt-shift effects. The more you blow out the depth cues in the photo, the greater tilt-shift effect you will get. You can eliminate the depth cues more easily.ģ) Choose photos that contain more depth cues. ![]() Low-angle or high-angle shots usually do not contain horizons. If you want to choose a photo containing a horizon, try to blur it out to narrow the depth of field.Ģ) Choose either high-angle or low-angle shots. When a horizon is included in the photo, it is difficult to eliminate the depth cues associated with the image, and you will not be able to get the tilt-shift effect. ![]() By blurring out the pheriphery of the image, the depth cues are eliminated and individuals can perceive objects in the image as miniature. The science behind the tilt-shift effect is to eliminate depth cues and focus on one portion of the visual field. In choosing the photo, remember the following:ġ) Try not to choose photos containing a horizon. The following link demonstrates how to make tilt-shift photography. With photoshop, you can make the tilt-shift effect and create miniature-like photos. The other option that you can choose is using photoshop. Tilt-shift lenses cost from over $1,300 to over $2,000. However, it is difficult to make tilt-shift photos with tilt shift lens’ because of its high price. There are two ways to make tilt-shift photography. ![]() You can see tilt-shift films in the links below. Tilt-shift effect can also be used in filming. The top and bottom portions of the image are blurred and the middle portion of the image is only crisp, which eliminates depth cues associated with the image and produces miniature scenes. This is the photo that I took in Downtown San Francisco. The life-size scale of the intersection is somehow perceived as a miniature. You may perceive the object in the crips area as a miniature, when in fact, those subjects are not miniatures! Tilt shift photography is achieved by blurring the depth cues associated with the image and selectively focusing on area of the image. Tilt-shift photography is a technique that gives an optical illusion to a photo making life-size scenes to be perceived as a miniature. One of the many rules is called Tilt-Shift Photography. There are many fun photography effects that you can employ to create interesting photos. ![]()
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