Yellow fields of Discovery

Discovering just what Tilt Shift can do is great fun – and you have to be hands on.

Sure, I’d seen 10 Youtube videos so had a good idea what I needed to do – but here are a few examples from my first landscape trip in summer 2017.

Tilt Shift Increasing that depth of Field

For landscapes, this is the main reason you’d use them. You want to get as much sharp as possible – that foreground flower to the distant mountain.

To do this I did this:-

1. Got the camera perfectly level – tilt back to 0 and no shift at all.
2. Worked out the exposure NOW – apparently, it goes pear shaped if you do it tilted/shifted!
3. Switch live view on and focus on something 1/3 into the shot – in these, it was some flowers a little way in
4. Zoom in on live view to something in the background – that tree in this case
5. Now TILT – just tilt anyway – till the tree gets sharp.
6. Move the live zoom view back to the foreground flowers
7. Re-focus a little till these are sharp
8. Go to step 5 and repeat – maybe a few times – till everything looks sharp.
9. SHOOT!

Wow – it’s a lot of work!

But from these shots, you can see it’s pretty much sharp all the way through

Darn sun went in!

Sharp pylon, most of the oil seed is too – the foreground one was a bit of a pain though!

Great for blades of wheat

Another one looking down a wheel track – the tree was the background thing to do the tilt-focussing on