If you find the right perspective when shooting with a T/S lens you can now frame differently at that given perspective. ![]() Changing our perspective on the other hand (i.e moving to a different place) is a different concept with a different result. This allows us to now frame out shot to something that we weren’t already seeing. What we are actually doing is we are cropping outside of our original frame. Shifting via a T/S lens is also not changing our perspective. If you think about when we ‘zoom’ the perspective doesn’t change. In relation to your question, you can definitely move your tripod BUT the thing that we’ve got to understand is that perspective and framing are not the same thing. Perhaps I need to do a blog post on this! I did chat offline with Fran as it isn’t super easy to explain. However, it isn’t to do with the shift function and that is more to do with framing. ![]() So you can move things around the frame, the centre will reduce this. With regards to the falling out of the frame, it is more to do with perspective distortion. I am totally excited for you to play around the T/S lens. Hey Todd! Hope you enjoy the 7-day free course. I think they are both great cameras and when you’re a professional it comes down to knowing both how to use them and how to manipulate your surroundings and settings to create something amazing! I’d be better investing in using/learning about medium format brands. I don’t think I’d switch brands, simply because I wouldn’t see a return in investment. Being a petite person with smallish hands, the Nikon just felt more like an extension of me and fit almost perfectly in the grip of my hand. Really when the deciding factor for me when I chose a camera was how it felt in my hand. My Nikon currently doesn’t let me use Live View whilst tethering, which the Canon does. I like where the buttons are placed on my Nikon, but that is such a small thing to consider as new makes/models will often move buttons so you can’t rely on that. Overall I personally don’t think it matters. Like many photographers, I there are things about both that I like and it would be amazing to take the best features of both and combine them into one body! (One can dream right?). Yes the good old Canon v Nikon conversation. I am so lucky to have her as a fellow photographer. Learn how your comment data is processed. Your email address will not be published. It’s something where seeing is believing. Renting a lens can cost less than $50 for the day to rent. ![]() 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. Using a Tilt-Shift Lens in Food Photography
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