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35 Examples of Amazing Tilt Shift Photography

by Andre Kreft

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Tilt shift photography is extremely popular. It has been seen on many different websites and commercials on tv. But what is tilt-shift photography actually? Tilt-shift photography refers to the use of camera movements on small- and medium-format cameras, and sometimes specifically refers to the use of tilt for selective focus, often for simulating a miniature scene. Sometimes the term is used when the shallow depth of field is simulated with digital postprocessing; the name may derive from the tilt-shift lens normally required when the effect is produced optically.

Tilt-shift actually encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp; it makes use of the Scheimpflug principle. Shift is used to adjust the position of the subject in the image area without moving the camera back; this is often helpful in avoiding the convergence of parallel lines, as when photographing tall buildings. This is often been used by architecture photography.

Enjoy the examples courtesy of http://tiltshifted.com.

Landscape Tilt Shift Images

Nicolas Diaz






Nicolas Diaz






Nicolas Diaz






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft






Hayley Forrester






Kevin Stokes






Kevin Stokes






Noa Emberson






Noa Emberson






Noa Emberson






Noa Emberson






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft

Sport Tilt Shift Images

Nicolas Diaz






Nicolas Diaz






Hayley Forrester






Hayley Forrester






Andre Kreft

Urban Tilt Shift Images

Jack Ambridge






Jack Ambridge






Koji Nakaya






Koji Nakaya






Koji Nakaya






Marcela Fae






Marcela Fae






Andre Kreft






Andre Kreft






Jack Ambridge






Nicolas Diaz






Erik Veland






Peter Oravec

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For those who would like to share their tilt shift photography please feel free to join our flickr group and add your images to the pool. Make sure and tag your tilt shift images with “TPA_TiltShift”. From the pool of images we will be selecting the best examples and showcase them in a future article. This can mean some great exposure and your images will be inspiring photographers from around the world.

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography
http://tiltshifted.com

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9 Comments

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  Justin said:

  Here is a great video put together using tilt-shift style images. Taken mostly with a Nikon D3

  http://www.vimeo.com/9679622

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  Nunya said:

  My attempt using a pic my wife took at the pier in Chicago
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nunya/3306490749/#/

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  Thomas said:

  Awesome photos. Here are two of my attempts:

  http://gooddaysbetterdays.tumblr.com/post/869710862/somewhere-on-dingle-peninsula-ireland-summer-of
  http://gooddaysbetterdays.tumblr.com/post/837953418/beach-near-caherdaniel-ireland-summer-of-2010

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  Angel said:

  Most of them r fake, tilt shifted in post. Do not use any tilt shift lens to achieve this.

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  Alfie Goodrich said:

  @Angel: exactly what I was about to ask. If people would like to see some of the ‘real thing’, here are a couple of posts on my blog:

  http://alfiegoodrich.com/2011/01/tokyo-tilt-shift-pt-1/

  http://alfiegoodrich.com/2011/02/tokyo-tilt-shift-part-2/

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  Vectorilla said:

  Nice collection, here is another one: http://www.freewebelements.com/tilt-shift-photography/

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  Dallas Product Photographer said:

  Very cool. I love this tilt shift stuff. Very optical illusion.
  Even if it is in post, it is a really cool style.

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  Swamykant said:

  Superb collection. I have used this technique several times. Nice post.

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  Dumitru Brînzan said:

  I have played with tilt-shift during this summer, just a little.
  It was really a great and fun experience, the result always surprises me.
  This is what I tried to tilt-shift, don’t be hating :)
  http://www.brinzan.com/2011/06/domulgeni-village-floresti-tilt-shift/

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