Landscape Photography & the Tilt and Shift Lens

When we look into our cam­era bags, all too often we realise that we are car­ry­ing too many lens­es and fre­quent­ly there are one or two that sel­dom get used reg­u­lar­ly. We at aspects of expres­sion have one par­tic­u­lar lens that we would nev­er leave the house with­out and that is a tilt and shift lens.

The tilt and shift lens essen­tial­ly uses the same prin­ci­pals for dig­i­tal land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy as large for­mat film cam­eras used for decades. Many of us will have seen pho­tographs of the mas­ters of land­scape pho­tog­ra­phy with phe­nom­e­nal sharp­ness and depth of field and won­dered how the pho­tog­ra­ph­er man­aged to get the fore­ground grass­es and the moun­tain ten miles away com­plete­ly and per­fect­ly sharp. The answer is a move­ment called tilt!

With­out going deeply into the tech­ni­cal­i­ties of this lens, apply­ing tilt, which is one of the fea­tures of this lens, enables you to alter and accu­rate­ly posi­tion the plane of focus result­ing in crit­i­cal­ly sharp images from front to back. There are of course oth­er fea­tures of this lens that can pre­vent con­verg­ing ver­ti­cals when pho­tograph­ing build­ings and you can also cre­ate some fas­ci­nat­ing​‘toy town’ effects by delib­er­ate­ly apply­ing a very nar­row depth of field.

aspect2i have been the fore­run­ners of teach­ing the use of this lens for quite a few years now and this one day pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop offers you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to explore this lens and its incred­i­ble fea­tures. You will receive plen­ty of hands on one to one tuition from your lead­ers who have been using this lens for many years. The day will con­clude with an image review where you will share the images you have tak­en and we will offer fur­ther tips on how to refine what you have learned on the day.