“Dreams”
February 27th, 2009 | Personal, Photography TipsI am loving every minute of my class at Santa Fe Photographic Workshop. I took the advice to “play” and “have fun” by taking a Nikon PC-E 85mm tilt shift lens on loan. I am in love with this lens. This is a fully manual lens. You change the aperture by rotating the aperture ring, a feature that does not exist anymore in new lenses. You have to shoot in manual mode because when it is tilted or shifted, the metering does not reflect the true exposure value. It produces a wicked out-of-focus look & vignette that I have not seen in any lenses I’ve used in the last 7 years. With this lens I bring an illustrative and abstract interpretation to my images where the rules are broken and reinvented.
I am so inspired that I’ve started to work on a photo series I called “Dreams”, a compilation of work I’ve done around Santa Fe. It is still very much work in progress. Let me know what your thoughts of the series.
(Note: 99% of the out of focus effect here are created on camera with the PC-E 85mm tilt shift lens)
February 27th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Marvelous Louis!
I guess another substitute is the lensbaby, no?
February 27th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
This lens give u pin point control over the focusing. The quality of the lens is superb. It is solid & very well engineered. With Lensbaby the control is a lot harder. You get a lot of hit and miss. I would love to buy this baby!
February 27th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Great shots! I had fun exploring tilt shift through tiltshiftmaker.com, but this is definitely the real thing!
February 27th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
…wow, these are cool. Everyone usually goes on about T&S being the “architect” lens, for getting rid of the distortion and perspective issues when shooting buildings etc., but this is opening up a whole load of new possibilities… Love the picture of the artist, and the landscape looks very inspiring!!!
February 27th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
this is really beautiful! really love the focus
March 1st, 2009 at 10:59 am
Looooooove it !!!! Love the colour saturation when we bit further from the equator… esp. love the cat & dog shots ! See u back home soon….
March 5th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
Wow…superb series. Love the colors and the mood in the pictures.
I saw many photoshop technique in mimicking the tilt shift effect, and had tried some of them. But doing it straight in the camera is cool. Hopefully someday I will have the chance to play with the lens
March 12th, 2009 at 1:02 am
beautiful set. love the tabby, the mailboxes, the yummy sky, and the painter. =) made me feel like i was looking at panels of the sandman series graphic novel. (that is the highest compliment in my books). “dreams” is aptly named. keep ‘em comin!