more tilt-shift: great falls, VA

November 21, 2009 | Filed Under nature, photography 

promise this is the last tilt-shift-only post!
but, i had a couple of hours to kill before i needed to return the lens to the fantastic folks at penn camera, and it was a beautiful day, and my friend saliha who lives not far from the place wasn’t working and loves hiking too… so we met up around midday at one of my most favorite parks in the world, great falls, on the virginia side of the potomac. with musa along, of course. i took only the 45mm ts-e lens so i could focus on trying it out a little more; found it was less of a struggle the next day, although that might have been because i was taking pictures of trees and a river, instead of people who had to wait for me :) i believe i might have begun to fall in love with this lens… but i still want the canon 35L first! someday!
a note: when i first began taking pictures in high school, i didn’t even like photographing people… it was always the outdoors, in the beginning, trying to capture beautiful landscapes or skyscapes or natural details, and i even hated having people IN the nature shots. so although my preference has changed quite a bit, this kind of exercise was a little bit of a return to myself…

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Comments

5 Responses to “more tilt-shift: great falls, VA”

  1. joe sanfilippo on November 21st, 2009 8:03 am

    tilt shift is awesome, looks like you had some fun with it!

  2. ceece on November 24th, 2009 2:26 pm

    you seemed to have really mastered the tilt shift! great stuff!

  3. Sahid on December 4th, 2009 3:33 am

    These are beautiful. I got my T/S lens a few months back, and am loving it so far. Still don’t know how to use it fully, but I love the effect. Never thought of doing natural landscape shots though. You pulled it off very nicely. Job well done :)

  4. beautyis on December 5th, 2009 8:40 am

    thanks, folks!
    sahid, i have seen a number of wedding togs use this lens beautifully, but i have also really been captivated by the “miniaturized” look that landscape photos and video have when captured with a tilt/shift lens… i really love it, but not sure if i’m ready to incorporate it into all my work yet! (i think i’ll have to get the 35L first :) )

  5. S2S on December 9th, 2009 10:07 pm

    Amazing work and wonderful use of TS. Inspiring really – love the miniature look in landscapes.

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