Is this shot taken from AOB building on Dundas and Bay? I use to work in that building...
Posted by eu at March 5, 2006 03:36 AMno substitute for the real thing. looks great.
Posted by Victor at March 5, 2006 03:41 AMwow. i thought it was one of your minuture shots!!!
Posted by tee at March 5, 2006 04:09 AMi don't think this one's real convincing. might be because there aren't any large objects near the middle to made that "tilt-shift" effect more dramatic?
Posted by will at March 5, 2006 04:31 AMFor a moment I thought this was one of the miniature model photos, the tilt shift causes an interesting effect.
Posted by ed { tfk } at March 5, 2006 04:42 AMwow,it is really amazing!
It has a amazing atmosphere like bitween the real and unreal,natural and artificial.
I really don't know exactly what is the difference bitween the tilt-shift lens and the one of usual but if possible,I wanna see the picutres which are shooted from the same angle but with the different lenses as tilt-shift and the usual...
Posted by Toshiya at March 5, 2006 05:51 AMLovely shot! It's amazing how the depth of focus when you use one of these lenses suddenly makes a shot incredibly interesting to look at. (Not saying it wouldn't have been interesting before, of course).
I am so jealous of you...wish I had a tilt/shift lens. I am going to have to make a Lensbaby from a projector lens, a reversing ring and some black pastic.
looks like a miniature landscape.
Posted by Dominik at March 5, 2006 07:45 AMmini city .why not others??
Posted by dollarH[CHN] at March 5, 2006 07:47 AMInteresting effect Sam....would be great to see it's use on some other scenes.
Phil
It looks like that model village lol!
Posted by Hosko at March 5, 2006 08:11 AMLove the shot. Perfect subject for the tilt-shift lens. Well done!
Posted by Chris at March 5, 2006 08:14 AMI had to take a doubletake -- that tilt-shift lens makes it looks like miniatures! Great stuff ~ love coming back here every morning for a new pic.
Posted by mizzmonsta at March 5, 2006 09:53 AMthe ghost of "miniatur wunderland" is still in your camera!
I love these shots. They look like a scale model of the city.
Posted by Fen at March 5, 2006 10:25 AMHate to say it, but the photoshop trickery looks much better.
Posted by Bryan at March 5, 2006 11:04 AMThat tilt-shift lens makes any wide angle shot look like it's a macro.
Posted by Damian at March 5, 2006 11:15 AMI love this little toy town parking. It's so cool to see people, street lights and buses so tiny. Also the orange cones look cool too.
Posted by noushin at March 5, 2006 11:18 AMHi Sam how srtange I realy thought this shot was was of a model,like the cyclists on the bridge only that looked more life-like! think I'm going mad! great shot though excellent light, very soft.
Posted by Mark Ellis. UK at March 5, 2006 11:39 AMthese shots look so... great. too bad that
1) tilt-shift lenses are so bloody expensive.
2) the large-format cameras I'm forced to deal with at school, are only slightly smaller and more portable than I am.
...heck. maybe I'll just rent one myself and shoot my finger off some weekend.
Posted by rhooke at March 5, 2006 11:46 AMI'm wondering when if ever you'll tilt the lens to get more depth of field, instead of less? You seem to be taken by short dof. Useful for portraits where background is not prime or incidental, but the tilt lens should give greater depth than a normal lens can provide as well as those parallel vertical walls with drop/rise usually found on such lenses.
I must look at one of those lenses to see what limits they have. My last use of tilt was 55 years ago on a 5x7 inch film Deardorf view camera, shooting furniture.
Posted by Hugh Petrie at March 5, 2006 12:08 PMhey sam, have you tried the lens on some nature shots? I wonder what it would look like... if I could make the suggestion, could you do that?
Posted by selam at March 5, 2006 06:52 PMReally neat effect. Looks miniature at the top of the image.
Posted by Phil at March 5, 2006 08:07 PMDefinitely an interesting effect, but I wonder how much it would actually get used if you were to purchase one.
And then if it were me, given the $$ involved, I am sure I would start thinking I HAVE to use this lens.
Posted by ROB at March 5, 2006 08:12 PMi have to wonder with your pictures now whether they're real or miniature. :)
another great one!
Posted by vanessa at March 5, 2006 11:46 PMIt seems like trying too hard to get an effect for the sake of producing that effect.
Posted by Boreo at March 5, 2006 11:51 PMThe effect is really amazing - funny how the brain works eh? Looking at this photo makes me wonder about the DOF of the eye itself. Shallow DOF of human vision is not something we are usually aware of, because the brain is so good at compensating.
In order for my subconscious to be so emphatic that this is a minature means that when looking at a real minature, the brain really much have to work hard at piecing together a sharp rendering.
Posted by Dominic at March 7, 2006 12:05 PMwooooooooooooooooow! i love this picture! great effect with this t/s lens! i need one too!
Posted by robert at March 7, 2006 04:10 PMi use a tilt shift lens a lot, almost exclusively actually. after all, you don't have to tilt/shift it and it performs well not tilted/shifted.
Posted by A Visual Journal at March 8, 2006 05:26 PMWow. This is a good photo. The lens you used, made everything look like it was a small macro miniature set. Very well done!! :D
Posted by Matthew Trevithick at March 20, 2007 11:10 PM