The pictures thread

Being, the purpose of tilt shift is to to be able change the angle of the focal plane, and is predominantly used for product photography (like jewelery), food photography, and architecture. The phenomenon of the "miniature" style photography actually goes counter to the purpose of the lens. For the miniature effect, you are severely decreasing the depth of field by tilting opposite what you normally would. It's also an interesting psychological trick. Super saturating colors add to the effect of the image being "fake" or a model. The effect is overdone now, since people fake it in photoshop, by adding blur.

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Originally Posted by Bitter Jeweler

Being, the purpose of tilt shift is to to be able change the angle of the focal plane, and is predominantly used for product photography (like jewelery), food photography, and architecture.

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Is this to compensate for not being able to get the camera positioned exactly how you'd like it? I've only noticed its use when someone posted those "miniatures" a while back. Do you think it has any value being used for nature or landscapes? I've never tried it. Maybe I'll download one of those actions for PS and see what it does (since I don't have a TS lens).

Since I'm here, this is the one I used for my mom's mother's day card this year. My critique on this one is lower ISO (this was 500) to smooth the bouquet and do some micro-adjustment for more accurate focus with this lens.

You gave your mother a picture of a cunt flower?

That's uh

Nice

Norman

Moms like pussy, too.

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Originally Posted by Nessus

You gave your mother a picture of a cunt flower?

That's uh

Nice

Norman

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Why do you call a Tulip a cunt flower? And who is Norman?

What's better than a rose on a piano?

Tulips on an organ, of course.

Cuz that view looks like *shudders*...

Why did you shoot at 500ISO? Was the tulip running away? That's an awful lot of noise for for 500 on a 5DmkII.
The 100% crop of the night shot doesn't have that much noise.

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Originally Posted by Bitter

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Am I to believe this is a real photo?! If so, it's absolutely phenomenal!

NGS, it's had some processing done on it, but yeah.

Oh, and Being, yes, tilt-shift lenses are great for landscapes. Think Ansel Adams, large format, and a bellows. The front element was able to tilt, to change the focal plane. As you tilt the lens the depth of field becomes pie wedge shaped. Whats closer is narrow, and whats far has wider DoF.

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Originally Posted by Bitter Jeweler

Why did you shoot at 500ISO? Was the tulip running away? That's an awful lot of noise for for 500 on a 5DmkII.
The 100% crop of the night shot doesn't have that much noise.

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I was testing out higher ISOs on a very cloudy day. But the noise, well f1.2, ISO 500, 1/800 shutter speed on a dark day and 70% crop; obviously a bad combination but it prints nice at 5.6" x 8.5". If I were to take the same shot again I'd fix the shutter speed at 1/30 with ISO 100 and let the camera choose the aperture. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by Being

I was testing out higher ISOs on a very cloudy day. But the noise, well f1.2, ISO 500, 1/800 shutter speed on a dark day and 70% crop; obviously a bad combination but it prints nice at 5.6" x 8.5". If I were to take the same shot again I'd fix the shutter speed at 1/30 with ISO 100 and let the camera choose the aperture. What do you think?

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Nearly all lenses are soft wide open. Stopping that lens down to f/1.8 will help, and you still get beautiful bokeh. Your DoF at f/1.2 had to be like razor thin, no wonder you have trouble focusing. I'd think you want to get that whole bud in focus, and blur the background. With that lens wide open, even on a "dark" day, ISO 100 would suffice.

Why would you want to fix your shutter speed, and go from there?
If you are not shooting sports where shutter speed is important, set your aperture for the desired DoF you want and let the rest fall into place.

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Originally Posted by Bitter Jeweler

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Nearly all lenses are soft wide open. Stopping that lens down to f/1.8 will help, and you still get beautiful bokeh. Your DoF at f/1.2 had to be like razor thin, no wonder you have trouble focusing. I'd think you want to get that whole bud in focus, and blur the background. With that lens wide open, even on a "dark" day, ISO 100 would suffice.

Why would you want to fix your shutter speed, and go from there?
If you are not shooting sports where shutter speed is important, set your aperture for the desired DoF you want and let the rest fall into place.

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Hey, thanks for the tips. I was just now checking out DoF online calculators. I'm looking at DoFMaster calculator and it says I should have had 0.84 inch DoF at 3 feet from the subject at f/1.2 with the 50mm lens. At f/1.8 it goes up to 1.32 inches. :up:

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^ Now that's a gorgeous shot :up::up:

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Yes, that's really him

Ian McKellan? I assume thats from a performance of waiting for godot? He was awesome in that.

Evidently he went outside in costume and people mistook him for an actual bum. They recreated the scene for a publicity shoot

Gandalf?

Or Magneto, if you swing that way

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I don't, not after the extremely stupid bridge moving scene. But that's a pretty odd photo. At first I thought she was taking a crap in the washing machine, then I realized she was holding a squeezebox.

The bridge moving scene was awesome and win and you're a dumb limp-dick :mad:

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The bridge moving scene was awesome and win and you're a dumb limp-dick :mad:

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It looked good, which was its only purpose. Otherwise it was absurd and stupid.

Do you know how magnetism works? Magneto's whole power is absurd and stupid

It's still really fucking cool

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Originally Posted by Nessus

Do you know how magnetism works? Magneto's whole power is absurd and stupid

It's still really fucking cool

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The existance of the power I'm willing to accept for the sake of entertainment. That he would use it in that way for that purpose, I'm not.

Some pictures from the Monaco Grand Prix which takes place this weekend.

Fabulous, glitzy, glitterati setting for the super-rich, and the event on the grand prix calendar.


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Originally Posted by EyeKhan

The existance of the power I'm willing to accept for the sake of entertainment. That he would use it in that way for that purpose, I'm not.

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You know, because people in real life never do things just because they can, to look awesome, show off, out of boredom, or look badass...or just any of the other numerous reasons. No, never happens.

Are we arguing about how a comic book character should act? :bulb:

I admit the 3rd Xmen film irritated me, but not because of that. Magneto is awesome, and so is Sir Ian McKellen!

Fantastic pics tim.

Shame its often a bit of a procession. Last year was dull as ditchwater.

Yeah, third X-men was lame. but isn't the true for the majority of comic-based movies? Shallow spectacle films. Should be a Netflix genre.

Still, those Ian McKellen pics were neat. The nose is unmistakable, and it's majestic. It should be donated to the National Trust after he dies.

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Originally Posted by Nessus

Do you know how magnetism works? Magneto's whole power is absurd and stupid

It's still really fucking cool

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