Tilt Shift Lens And Time Lapse

Tilt Shift Coachella – Time Lapse

I came across this great tilt shift coachella video the other day and I thought I would share it with you. I thought it was a fantastic use of tilt-shift lenses. Combined with time lapse, it creates something “cool”

Tilt Shift Coachella – Video

Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Wow! That tilt-shift lens can do some crazy stuff. And all the music there was fantastic!

Tilt Shift Coachella – Effects

Tilt shift effects can be mimicked using post-processing filters in Photoshop or other photo manipulation software. But if done optically, it can be used to render images that appear to be “miniature” like.

As you can see from the tilt shift coachella video, this miniaturization does something funny with your perceptions. Since photography is subjective, your perception makes a difference in how you are affected by it.

In short, what a “tilt” does is to rotate the lens plane relative to the image plane. “Shift” on the other hand, moves the lens plane parallel to the image plane.

Tilt makes one particular area of the image to be in sharp focus; shift adjusts the position of the subject without moving the camera back.

In the tilt shift coachella video above, carefully arranged photography in a time lapse fashion can render something beautiful.

If you enjoyed this Tilt Shift Coachella article, please consider sharing