Lincoln Memorial – Tilt-Shift

So a tilt-shift lens was rented from lensrentals.com for the movie we are shooting, and as this weekend was a weekend off from shooting, and while the sun was out, and while the cherry blossoms were out in DC, I decided to take it for a test spin.

First of all, this is not a ‘pick up and use’ lens – far from it. I read a huge tutorial before picking up this lens to really figure out what tilting did, what shifting did, and rotating it, to what degree’s etc. Its quite complicated. If you just wanted to play with this lens to create those miniatures that have become quite popular on the internet recently then that’s easy. Tilt the lens to the furthest position away from the subject, rotate the lens 90 degrees and hit the lowest aperture and you’re done. But obviously this lens is meant for so much more than that.

Let’s just say I want one


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