I went for a stroll today, dodging the showers. I often take just one camera and lens to make myself work hard with the limited focal range available.

Here are a couple taken with the Canon 24mm TS-E lens. This is a manual focus tilt-shift lens.

This next one with the sun in the frame demonstrates how well the 'L' series lenses control flare.

As ever:thumbup:

Did you use a polariser or a bit of PP to give the pictures such ‘clout’ (well it what I call it)? Or is it the famed FF sensor doing it’s thing again

nice pics mate. I'm a keen photographer and like what you've done. Like the avantar too!

Nice one mate

As ever:thumbup:

Did you use a polariser or a bit of PP to give the pictures such ‘clout’ (well it what I call it)? Or is it the famed FF sensor doing it’s thing again

Hi Amanda

No polariser, a fair bit of work in lightroom, but the vision as to what I wanted was formed at the location.

1DSII and 'L' helped a little.

nice pics mate. I'm a keen photographer and like what you've done. Like the avantar too!

Thanks Mark - the 30 is up and I am enjoying it

Nice pics as always, Scuff.

Help me out a bit here, what is special regarding the "tilt-shift lens"?

Nice pics as always, Scuff.

Help me out a bit here, what is special regarding the "tilt-shift lens"?

Hi Hedge....

You have two operations that you can use individually or in combination with these lenses, tilt and shift.

Shift allows you to move the optics up or down. Normally if you are taking an image of a building, you have to point the camera upwards to include all of the structure. By shifting the lens up, you can include all of the building and keep the camera sensor vertical, therefore you get no 'leaning'. You can replicate this correction in photoshop etc, but you end up cropping a lot of the image afterwards. You also have to stretch the image to give the correct height - oh, and you do 'arf clobber the quality!!! Another 'trick' is where you can take an image standing on front of a mirror, and not have the reflection of you and the camera!!!

Tilting the lenses alters the plane of focus. This will basically allow you to shoot at a wide aperture but still retain good depth of field. The first shot on this thread was taken with 2 degrees of tilt, which alters the plane of focus approx 45 degrees. This is more often used with the 90mm TS-E for studio product shots.

My chart that I produced below is useful for a quick reference of the plane of focus change.

I did a lot of commercial shots with 5x4 monorail cameras, so I have a good understanding of how these lenses work. It seems complicated, but once you have used one for a while, it all makes sense.

Another couple of quirks are that they are manual focus, and when shifting, you throw the camera meter in to a wobbly, so you have to shoot manually and set the aperture and shutter speed according to a non-shifted light meter reading, or use a separate hand held meter.

Gottit-Good:rofl:

Here are a couple of shots from a commission.....

The 'leaning' one was only taken to demonstrate the image with no shifting of the lens.

And now the corrected one with the lens shifted up about 6mm

I have a series taken at Bodiam Castle - here is one of my best sellers taken with the 24mm TS-E

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I do hate you, but in a good way:D

I do hate you, but in a good way:D

:P:rofl:

Well I have a magic kaleidoscope so ner ner:P

Well I have a magic kaleidoscope so ner ner:P

Ahhhh, but is it an 'L'

It’s an ‘L’ of a Kaleidoscope, if that helps.

Wonderful shots there Scuff,

Must admit I'm very tempted to get a tilt shift, hahe been looking at the Hartblei ones as the canon one is a little out of my price range just now.

Another question for you, how do you find shutterstock, I've been considering trying to sell some of my work.

Thanks,

Alan

Wonderful shots there Scuff,

Must admit I'm very tempted to get a tilt shift, hahe been looking at the Hartblei ones as the canon one is a little out of my price range just now.

Another question for you, how do you find shutterstock, I've been considering trying to sell some of my work.

Thanks,

Alan

Hi Alan

Thanks for your comments. I haven't tried the Hartblei, but by all accounts it is OK. If you get one I would be interested to see some shots from it (on full frame if possible).

Shutterstock has the most sales for me. If you view my web site links the agencies that I use are listed in order of revenue. These are referral links, so if you sign up on one of them I get recognition for that - just sign up elsewhere if you do not wish this.

All of the agencies require some samples before you are accepted as a contributer. They all have their foibles, but it is not that difficult to get in. I earn useful cash from the agencies, from images that would be gathering dust on my hard drive. It can also get you out there taking images with a purpose and learning as you go. So it cant be all that bad.

I would be happy to help if you wish to explore it further.

Some nice shots there scuff. I've always considered a Tilt and Shift for some portrait work and get some nice effects but unfortunately could not justify spending so much on a lens which would get so little use. Same goes for a fish eye....

I did purchase a Sigma 14mm f/2.8 and i only used it once for around 10 shots and that's it! I sold it only recently for what I paid for it so it wasn't so bad. Glad i didn't get the Canon 14L in the end as I was looking for one before I got the Sigma....

Here are a couple of shots from a commission.....

The 'leaning' one was only taken to demonstrate the image with no shifting of the lens.

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And now the corrected one with the lens shifted up about 6mm

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I have a series taken at Bodiam Castle - here is one of my best sellers taken with the 24mm TS-E

Bloody hell , that's clever!

Had a stroll around Kings Lynn today, here is another with the tilt-shift 24mm, I used a CPL filter on it to enhance the colours and bring out the sky.

Taken with the 1DsII

Just to prove that you can do landscapes with a 'sports' camera, we watched the sun go down over the river and took this snap with a Canon 1DmkIII and a 16-35L lens.

One thing did pith me off - a Kings Lynn seagull did an enormous pooo on the roof of my Octi Vrs. SO it is now Race blue and a sort of dirty white!!!!

If you drive really fast and before it sets, it might look like a large racing stripe:D

Love the pictures as always, especially as all the vertical edges are just that.

If you drive really fast and before it sets, it might look like a large racing stripe:D

Love the pictures as always, especially as all the vertical edges are just that.

Too late!!!! I'm going to give the motor a good wash and polish tomorrow. May need a chisel for the poo though 'Yuk'.

I wonder if I could come up with a good macro shot of the $hi*...... Noooo stoppit, that's taking the art to far!!!!

I wonder if I could come up with a good macro shot of the $hi*...... Noooo stoppit, that's taking the art to far!!!!

I don’t think you can take art too far, can you. well perhaps Bird Poo is stretching it a little, but you could always take it to the Tate Modern and ask a couple of hundred grand and they would get a car thrown in for free