Tilt and Shift #3 – Photos

Sorry this is late... I took a little trip so forgot about the web dwellers. Anyway I was talking about tilt and shift lenses – here’s some photographers who use the lens. One of the great effects fashioned by these camera wielders is the distortion of landscape focus to make it look like macro (close-up) photography – in effect the landscape scene is distorted to the sort of focal ranges, and in some cases perspectives, of tiny models. Olivo Barbieri’s series Virtual Truths shows some effective tilt and shift work. More of his aerial work is reviewed by metropolismag.com, the most symbolic of this style is the aqueduct in Rome shown top left.

This effect of making aerial scenes look like minatures is shown in this “the bitter*girls” photo-blog. Especially effective are those featuring people (middle left). These give an authentic sense of unnatural proportion and perspective. The colours are probably enhanced to give them a super-realism.

Somewhat differently, Swiss photographer Gérard Pétremand uses scenes with foreground subjects. The effect is more disorienting and quirky, as in his Champs électriques series. Check it by clicking here.