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I might have some perception irregularities as this "tilt and shift" never looks like any kind of "miniature" to me.
by FpUser 4y ago
I might have some perception irregularities as this "tilt and shift" never looks like any kind of "miniature" to me.
- daveslash 4y agoI might be way off here, but here's what I always assumed. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, this is just what I've always guessed, but haven't really thought too hard about it.... I think Tilt Shift photography doesn't make the subject look like a miniature, but rather makes the photo look like a photo of a miniature. When photographing a miniature, the subject is so close that you have a much narrower depth of field and you end up with thin slices of the miniature subject being in focus. I think that this was probably more common in the days of film than digital photography. In other words: the photos of miniatures look like that because of limitations in the photography process, whereas tilt-shift is emulating those limitations at a macro scale.
- jacobolus 4y agoA tilt–shift lens can make the focus plane no longer parallel to the plane of the film. This can help make a narrower range of focus for a scenes at middle distances than would be possible with a typical lens. A narrow depth of field is more characteristic of photographs of nearby objects, so people who are used to looking at photographs end up with the impression that the tilt–shift photograph is a picture of a much closer (and thus smaller) scene. This is not the only use of tilt–shift lenses. They can e.g. also be used to keep more of the scene in focus than would be possible with a typical lens.