T190, September 2005
Tilt/Shift Photography Links
This
page is a work in progress. Last Updated: September 21, 2009
This
is a
page of links to information about tilt/shift photography and to
galleries of
photographers who use t/s in their work. Tilt-shift photography
as it applies to creating a 'toy-trainset' effect in scenery is
catching on all over the world (mostly via flickr, the online photo
sharing community) so I felt it would be a good idea to collect as much
information about the technology as possible so people can find
equipment and inspiration easily. If you've found some
information or a gallery of images that isn't listed here, please let me know.
My own gallery of T/S photography - mentioned by Rannie Turnigan (Photojunkie)
Flickr.com tiltshift group
T/S Photographers
Miklos
Gaal
- page
at Herrmann & Wagner gallery (exhibit 04-05)
- page
at Hermann & Wagner gallery (exhibit 08-03)
- book:
Sightseeing
Tour (another link here)
Toni Hafkenscheid - official site
- pages at Aron Packer
Gallery
- pages
at Robert Birch Gallery
- page
at Summit Gallery of Fine Art
Olivo
Barbieri
- Site Specific_Las Vegas 05 video (cinematography
by Joshua Allen)
- BLDGBLOG:
The City As Avatar of Itself
Jorg
Fahlenkamp - mo art gallery site
Frank Van Der Salm - official site
- MK Galerie page for
FVDS monograph
Mark
Rader
- article on his show and Miklos Gaal's (2003)
- tzr gallery of his "Mallorca: Island in Progress"
- EX.IN
collection of his work
Tom
Merilion
- BBC
Birmingham in Pictures Slideshow
- Belfast
Exposed review of Birmingham material
Bluejake
- blogger
has a small T/S gallery w/comments
Bitter*Girls (Japan) - page at
so-net.jp
Cosmin
Bumbut | Photographer -
- :Tilted People - portraits
done using T/S - very
groundglass
- Graflex Super Speed
Graphic gallery (Jon likes wide apertures!)
Gerard
Petremand - Swiss photographer - really nice work!
- gallery
Primoz Jeroncic - Photo Slovenia Photographer
Jon Roemer - Shots with Canon 1D/1DsMkII and Canon t/s lenses
Claudio
Edinger - official site - shoots with 4x5
Mark Tucker - official site
Marcus Spedding - click on "Toytown Japan slideshow" - very good Photoshop "fakes"
Kristofer Jansson- t/s photography with a Pentax K10d + Photex 2.8/35mm t/s lens.
National Geographic photographer David Burnett uses a modified Speed Graphic camera (known as the Burnett Combo, or "Aero-Ektar", due to the marriage of an 7" Aero Ektar lens to a Speed Graphic for superior image quality and wide angle.. He used the combination to shoot an awesome portfolio on the cleanup after Hurricane Katrina for the August, 2006 issue of NG. More images are available at David's website.
Little People - a tiny street art project - not tilt-shift per se but the end result is the same! Check it out!CITYshrinker is a new photography website featuring tilt-shift (or fake tilt-shift) photography by Ben Thomas
Cinematographer Joshua Allen worked on Olivo Barbieri's Site Specific: Las Vegas.
Keith Loutit uses stop motion techniques to create short videos in tilt-shift.
Sample T/S Images (searches at pbase.com)
- Canon TS-E24mm f3.5 L
- Canon TS-E45mm f2.8
- Canon TS-E90mm f2.8
- Lensbaby 2.0
- Lensbaby
Original
- Nikkor 85mm f2.8 PC
Micro
- Nikkor 28mm f3.5 PC Ai-S
Related Articles and Artists
Lori Nix - constructs models and shoots them
t/s
...so
does David Levinthal!
BLDGBLOG:
Landscapes of a World Gone Wrong
- not
t/s photography but rather an artist (Lori Nix) who constructs models that end
up looking the same way t/s shots do.
BLDGBLOG:
Simulating, replacing or otherwise
- article
on the work of Oliver Boberg
Technical Explanations of T/S Photography
- Cambridge in Colour: Using Tilt-Shift Lenses for Perspective Control
- Cambridge in Colour: Using Tilt-Shift Lenses to Control Depth of Field (added September 2009)
- photo.net:
How Shift Lenses
Change Your Life by Frank Sheeran
- eosdoc.com:
Image Controls: Tilt
and Shift
- Columbia
University: Scheimpflug
Imaging
- Photosafaris:
Tilt Lenses
- Canon:
Tilt-Shift
Lenses
- ikon:
Instruction
Manual for PC-NIKKOR for Nikon F
- a good discussion on the background of Russian tilt-shift lenses (photography-on-the-net.com)
35mm-compatible
T/S Lenses
Hartblei has announced a premium line of t/s lenses, made using the SuperRotator barrel but with Carl Zeiss optics. They were introduced at Photokina 2006, and a select number of sample lenses will be sold immediately after the show (late September) for 15% off list before real production starts. Discussion about this with a Hartblei rep at fredmiranda; Hartblei is releasing three lenses with Zeiss glass - these are t/s versions of Zeiss lenses for Hasselblad.
Pricing estimates put them between $3-5000 ea. For more information see Hartblei's release page.
40mm Distagon T* IF 4/40
80mm Planar T" 2.8/80
120mm Makro-Planar T* 4/120
Update: Hartblei has announced a medium format digital camera optimized for wide angle and t/s photography.
Re: Zeiss Hartblei lenses
- this is very interesting. According to his ebay listings,
Mikhail Fourman over at kievcamera.net is offering conversions of
Zeiss Hasselblad lenses - the 40, 80 and 120mm - to tilt-shift Hartblei
SuperRotator versions. Two month turnaround. The 80mm and
120mm were $900US and the 40mm was $1300. What this means, to me,
is that Hartblei may not have been able to find a market for the
completed versions (too expensive?) but is willing to convert
customers' lenses. They're pretty good at what they do, judging
by the quality of their non-Zeiss lenses... I really want to hear some
feedback from someone who's had the conversion done! The ebay
listings indicate the conversions are NOT Hasselblad-compatible anymore - they will have CANON 35mm mounts. I would imagine they can do Nikon mount as well.
http://www.hartblei.de/en/optics-by-carl-zeiss.htm
Standard Hartblei lenses available (Russian glass - made using old Zeiss machinery):
35mm f2.8 SuperRotator
- brand
new, just started production Dec 2005 - Discussion
on dpreview, some first reactions
- user review with samples - also at fredmiranda.com
45mm f3.5 SuperRotator
65mm f3.5 SuperRotator
80mm f2.8 SuperRotator
120mm f2.8 SuperRotator
ARSAT/ARAX
- MC 80mm TS
- MC
35mm TS
- gallery of images taken with Arax TS 35mm & Nikon D70 1, 2, 3, 4
Canon
- Northlight Images review (comprehensive)
- the-digital-picture.com review
- photography-on-the-net mini review
- fredmiranda.com review - includes examples
24mm TS-E 3.5 II L - announced Feb 2008
17mm TS-E 4 L - announced Feb 2008
Nikon
- PC-E Nikkor 24mm f3.5D ED (announced Jan 2008 45mm and 85mm to come as well - more details here. and here.)
- PC
Nikkor 28mm f3.5
- PC
Nikkor 35mm f3.5
- Micro-PC
Nikkor 85mm f2.8 D
- Nature Photographers
Online review
Nikon and
Canon T/S Lenses Reviewed at Shutterbug
Leica/Schneider
- 28mm f2.8 PC Super Angulon R
Useful historical listing of various T/S lenses
Hybrid 35mm DSLR/Large Format Systems
Horsman LD Bellows for Canon & Nikon DSLRs
Northlight Images/Keith Cooper - conversion of Canon 1Ds for use as a digital back on a 4x5 view camera.
Medium Format T/S Cameras, Lenses and Adapters
Hasselblad - Flexbody Camera
in 2009, Hasselblad released the HTS 1.5, a tilt-shift adapter for its H-system camera body and lenses.
Mamiya
- Tilt/Shift Adapter for RZ67 use with Mamiya 75mm f/4.5 Short Barrel Lens
Rollei
- 55mm f/4.5 PCS Super-Angulon - discussion at photo.net
Medium Format Lenses with the Pentacon Six Mount - a comparative test. (pentaconsix.com)
Retailers specializing in T/S lenses
- Kievcamera.net - based in Atlanta, imports Hartblei - Mikhail Fourman's site. - NEW SITE LINK (Aug08)
- Kievusa.com - Saul Kaminsky's retail site devoted to Kiev cameras and lenses.
- Hartblei.com - manufacturer of T/S lenses
(based in Kiev)
site
has lots of useful information although sometimes poorly translated from the
original Ukranian.
Do-It-Yourself/Random Tilt Lenses
- orbit1 - very
nice results
- Lensbabies - frogbeater has a good gallery of LB images
- Lensbabies version 3G version has lockdowns for its adjustments, improving its abilities as a t/s option.
- Lensbaby Composer is a ball-and-socket version of the product.
- Zork
- PC Nikkor 28mm f3.5 Modified T/S
The Burnett Combo: Pacemaker Speed Graphic 4x5 press camera + Kodak Aero Ektar 178mm f2.5
- The Aero Ektar Project - Aero Ektar User Group
- The Kodak Aero Ektar and The Speed Graphic - Jo Lommen's instructional pages on how to assemble the Burnett Combo
Achieving
the "Tilt-Shift" Effect in Photoshop (sort of)
- There
are any number of ways to achieve the t/s 'look' in Photoshop, but most of them
produce images that are unique in themselves, and they don't look quite like a true t/s image. However some of them do look very
good. There are a number of
examples submitted to the tiltshift tag on Flickr.
- Receding
Hairline has a
good page on "Fake
Model Photography", and goes in to great detail describing step-by-step
how to approximate t/s in Photoshop CS.
- Tobias
Hoellrich's blog has this technique suggestion:
o "If you're
using Photoshop CS2 you can use the Filter -> Blur -> Lens Blur ...
filter for that. Create an Alpha Channel with a reflected gradient (black areas
will be in focus and white areas will be blurred). Then activate the lens blur
filter, pick the alpha channel as the Depth Map source and you're set."
- This page has a PS action for
achieving the "Lensbaby" effect. (sample)
Tinselman, (Myst co-creator Robyn Miller) has done a good bit of fake t/s work here. Nice aerials of Disney World.
semi related: Jeff Sacilotto has made a 'fake tilt-shift' movie' (Check out Barbieri's Site Specific Las Vegas video above for the real thing).
Other Articles
Industrial Brand Creative Inc. mentions the t/s 'phenomenon' in their Zeitgeist column. Links to both real and Photoshop tilt-shift examples.
PingMag (Japan) has an article on 10 Tiny Tokyo Photos. (Photoshop effect)
Pages
Linking Here (thanks!)
Ektopia
(Feb 23rd, 2006)