I struggled with this picture. Tried to nail focus on Church spire and foreground.
Any advice for correct technique to tilt a lens. Should I focus on foreground and tilt for background? Thanks in advance for your comments.
I never use tilt on my TSE's.
For architecture it's not ideal in my experience since it distorts the image. What I always do is combine different images having focussed on different items.
With the TSE-24 II this is my worklow.
1) I use around f/6.3 or f/7 for the center of the image focussing on the centre to maximize centre sharpness.
2) I use f/11 for the sides of the image again focussing there.
3) When using full shift up I use f/13 or f/14 focussing on the extreme corners.
4) If I would have foreground interest I would focus there and use f/16 or so. I rarely have foreground interest in practice.
This one is done with 24 mm t/s II on a Canon 5D http://stefan-zander.com/66.jpg
There is more on my site under the Norway gallery.
www.stefan-zander.com
Powers Art Center, Carbondale, Co
This photo is an example of why this lens is indispensable to me, little or no distortion.
I am trying to figure out how to get a larger image.
Rajan Parrikar wrote:
Stanj, beautiful shot. That lens is one of my most-used tools. If you have Viveza, you could lighten your faces just a bit.
Thanks - yup, the picture is pretty much straight out of the camera. I just barely downloaded the photos from the vacation
Not much of a Viveza user (even tho I have it), simply because it's not seamless with LR. But the local adjustments in LR will perform similarly well in this case, I believe.
Beautiful images thr33d. Never though about using a TS-E in the forest!
Love your style Ulff. Your use of tilt is so subtle and the processing is sublime.
My latest TSE-17 image. The building was so tall that I had to point the lens upward a little for the 2nd image. Photoshop still stitched it quite well with the 2nd level image. It's a 90 sec exposure at f/11. I didn't do any noise reduction to keep a bit of a grainy look.
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