Comments: moon over smokestack

Yeahhh.

Posted by Pop9 at February 10, 2009 06:16 AM

ok sam, enough with the goofy tilt-shift already, it's getting a bit tired.

if you can't top this, then don't bother:
http://vimeo.com/2317118

Posted by bill at February 10, 2009 07:45 AM

Beautiful composition. This is a kind of image I don't see too often and that always catches my attention. The bokeh on the left side is great, I can't stop looking at it!

Posted by Gabriel Robledo at February 10, 2009 08:26 AM

Thanks for posting this, it's a very nice photo.

Posted by Bardia Alavi at February 10, 2009 09:32 AM

Wow. Beautiful. Nice miniature effect. It's impressive how you can do that right on the camera with the slip lenses. Those lenses look so weird

Posted by Sumit Khanna at February 10, 2009 09:45 AM

Out of interest (since I've never had the pleasure o using a tilt shift), can you control how much of the area is in focus?

Enjoy the site btw, have been following for over a year :)

Posted by mike at February 10, 2009 09:59 AM

Yuck!

Posted by Hugh Petrie at February 10, 2009 10:15 AM

Interesting - have you been inside the Malt recently?

J->

Posted by Jonathan Castellino at February 10, 2009 10:34 AM

Hi

Im from finland. I visit your site every day, to see daily photo. I am a huge fan of your art!

Keep up good work!

You are grate inspiration to my photo hobby.

Regards

Juuso Kivela

Posted by Juuso from finland at February 10, 2009 10:56 AM

beautiful shot!

Posted by richiec at February 10, 2009 12:30 PM

For some reason I am just not feeling this particular use of TS.

Posted by Micah S at February 10, 2009 01:04 PM

Lovely colour. The bokeh on this lens is very nice too, but in my opinion, theres too much content out of focus to keep my attention. My eyes want to go to the blurred street lights and then to the focused area with the bright building and then back to the street lights.

The moon over the city at that time of evening would sure be beautiful though :)

Posted by Skiman at February 10, 2009 04:28 PM

Did you use a tilt-shift lens on this one? I´m asking because of the focus...

Posted by Renato Rea at February 10, 2009 04:30 PM

Stunning! Great colors, composition, everything.

Posted by Abel at February 10, 2009 07:34 PM

Sorry Sam but this is the first time in many "moons" that I have not been impressed by your photography. Personally, I don't care for the out of focus foreground but that's photography. However, I wouldn't mind having the TS-E 45mm in my bag.

Cheers

Frank Moodey

Posted by Frank Moodey at February 10, 2009 07:50 PM

Well one good thing came out of this photo. I learnt a new word today "bokeh". I use it a lot in my own photgraphy, mainly as back ground, but didn't know it had a name.

Thanks

Frank

Posted by Frank Moodey at February 11, 2009 08:01 PM

I liked the photo and the composition. WHen I look at the larger image I do think I would like a little more of the main building in focus but I am not familiar with the TS lens and I don't know if that would be possible.

Posted by Glenn at February 11, 2009 09:32 PM

Sam, isn't the purpose of T/S to adjust the angle of the focal plane so that you can have foreground and background objects in focus while still having a shallow depth of field for objects off of the focal plane? In other words in this photo the focal plane is adjusted to the exact opposite of what the original intention of T/S lenses are.

This one doesn't do it for me, but I love your work, so I'll allow you all the artistic freedom you want - Keep up the awesome work!

Posted by Lon at February 12, 2009 10:33 AM

This is such a beautiful photo, wonderful job. All of you who are putting down this photo is just messed up in the head and jealous. The colors, setting..everything's gorgeous. Keep up the fantastic job!

Posted by Jen at February 13, 2009 05:48 AM

I can only praise the quirky use of the tilt shift in this one. I find the effect interesting if I say so myself - I am a fan!

Posted by Jimbo at February 16, 2009 03:31 AM

Gimmicks only impress amateurs. The tilt-shift is fantastic at correcting verticals, let's leave it to that. Beware of super wide angles too. Before you know it, all of your photography looks the same and people can't focus on the content anymore.

That said, this photo would have been incredible without the T/S effect. I'm sure you have one, so good shot!

Posted by Alex at February 18, 2009 02:45 PM
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