What is Tilt-Shift ?

To go forward in my photography knowledge I decided to proceed a bit differently :

I will not take random shots and then select some to put in this blog. Nop. From now on, I will choose a theme for the following five pictures. This will help me to get more control about what I am doing as limits push the creativity.

The first theme will be: the Tilt-Shift effect. I could try to explain what "tilt-shift" is but it would probably take me a lot of time and it might still not be very clear so to get what it is all about you can just follow this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HRYlJUwzYA

OK, so that was an introduction to tilt-shift lenses, but I don't have a tilt-shift lens, I just have the "miniature" effect on my S95 so I suppose that it is more of a shift than a tilt... Let's try out!

Oh, another nice blog ;-)

Surfing around I found a really, REALLY, nice blog.

Here it is: http://www.mdavid.com.au/photography/photography.html

Enjoy.

the 13 P6 shots

Some news of my German BigBoy !!!

As sad in a previous post, I walked around Prague a few hours with my 2 kg BigBoy. I shot a bit of anything actually just to test the framing and "how" good I am to take shots using my S95 for light measurement. I was afraid that the Pentacon curtains might be slow so I always put the setting a bit faster: what a faithless little creature I am! This copy is just perfect in all possible ways. Can't wait to shoot the next roll.

BTW: This is the first roll I shot with my P6 but I used one before to test the framing with the "B mode and pen technic" and it is confirmed : my P6 delivers 13 beautifully framed pictures! :-)

Here are the 13 first:

90 left: Starve the ego

What can be better, not to be retouched, than a candide shot. Very good advise by the way...

91 left: Flower wall

I like the very soft Bokeh of this one. Gentle, you still see the tree really nicely, just a hint out of focus :-) Sweet...

92 left: fly!

Of course the S95 is not the best tool to do "macro" but this one is not so bad, the focus is nicely on the flowers and the fly.

93 left: Flash wheet

(The colors have NOT been retouched, this is what you get with low exposure + flash on the closest objects. Nice, isn't it?)