Tilt-Shift Photography

What is Tilt-Shift Photography, and why should you care?

The general idea behind Tilt/Shift photography is that special lenses can be bent from side to side (tilt) and also from from their normal parallel, in-line, plane (shift). The tilt seems to create photos with very specific, and changeable, focal point within the photo while the shift action can be used to correct geometric distortion (converging lines). However, both types of photography yield amazing, and unrealistic, results.

Wikipedia entry

Explanation of How Tilt-Shift is achieved

Cheapshooter Article

Outland Institute Post

Tilt-Shift Specialist Ben Thomas' Miniature Cities



And finally, remarkable Tilt-Shift Stop Motion Animation:


Beached from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.