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This site is well worth a visit. This Sydney photographer uses tilt shift to form a new art experience.

It makes for an interesting take on the tilt/shift, thanks for the link Chris,

André

Thats fantastic!

Animating his images adds a little bit of interest, but I still don't like the underlying technique.

I need faster internet...

gstark wrote:Animating his images adds a little bit of interest, but I still don't like the underlying technique.

Out of curiosity is it the technique or the results that you don't like? Or to put it another way, is that you think there is a better way to achieve this, or that you don't like the whole idea?

dawesy wrote:Out of curiosity is it the technique or the results that you don't like? Or to put it another way, is that you think there is a better way to achieve this, or that you don't like the whole idea?

I just don't like the overall concept - this so-called tilt-shift. I see little merit in it. That this guy has done something different with it is commendable, but while you can coat a pile of dog-shit in chocolate, it will still be a pile of dog-shit when all is said and done.

I think that it's sort of a photographic equivalent to Big Brudder - maybe not quite that bad, but it's gimmick that is currently in fashion.

Which means that we won't need to wait too long for it to go out of fashion.

Rather than ask if there's a better way to achieve this, I would ask "why bother?"

So it's the latter then.

I must admit when I saw it I thought 'ah, that's kinda cool' and forgot about it until it ended up in the news as the latest internet sensation. If that's not a sure sign no one will be talking about it in 6 months I don't know what is! It's a fun idea, but I won't be sitting on a cliff top for 5 hours to try and replicate it.

I can't say I know a great deal about tilt/shift but my only real interest in it has been my understanding that it makes shooting buildings and actually having them square a tad easier. I certainly wouldn't be characterising all TS photography as a turd, I'm sure it has some very functional applications.

dawesy wrote:If that's not a sure sign no one will be talking about it in 6 months I don't know what is!

Exactly.

Got a hula-hoop?

Pogo-stick?

I can't say I know a great deal about tilt/shift

Part of the problem - for me - with this is that this has nothing at all to do with photography that uses tilts, shifts, swings, etc, as a means to making the image. That extends into, to my mind, the potential statement that the proponents of this technique also do not a great deal about tilt-shift. I suspect that is rather close to the truth, and to me this would be better named "tilt-shit".

but my only real interest in it has been my understanding that it makes shooting buildings and actually having them square a tad easier.

If you are shooting with equipment that enables tilts, shifts, swings, etc, then yes, this would be correct, and that is a very useful technique. The technique used in these images does not use this sort of gear, however, and is IMHO poorly named.

I certainly wouldn't be characterising all TS photography as a turd, I'm sure it has some very functional applications.

If we are talking about real TS, then yes, that is correct, but if we are discussing the technique displayed by the images referred to in this thread (and a few others over the last 18 months) then, perhaps, but I have yet to be shown any.

Thank God we live in a free society Gary As an art form I find that his use of a tilt shift lens to separate out a portion of the image combined with stop motion photography lends itself to being unique. Having been an ardent model maker back in the day, I can appreciate the miniaturistion effect obtained through this ‘art form’.

I can see what he is trying to do but the fact that where I want to look is not in focus much of the time, it is just distracting.

Close but (for me) no Cigar.

It's not my idea of a nice landscape technique, or even a good one for that matter. With the right subject, what this bloke has done might look alright but not with what he shows at the begining of the film. I did not watch the rest as it is too slow for me.

I came across this guy's stuff the other day, but the clip you linked to, Chris, didn't do much for me. Out of all of his clips, I preferred 'Bathtub III'.(link: )

But then, I quite like stop motion photography, too.