

The process combines to adjust elements of focus, lighting, and color saturation, among other characteristics, to create imagery that is distinctive, cool and entertaining. Also for real estate photography, these lenses are perfect. Traditionally, tilt shift photography has relied on special cameras and lenses to create photos and videos that mimic the appearance of a miniatures scene. Just keep in mind to capture enough extra space to allow cropping.īut if shoot a lot of buildings or other objects that have vertical lines and you need a perspective distortion-free capture, it might be worth investing in such a lens. If you have to correct perspective distortion just once in a while, it might be perfect to do so in post-processing. Nevertheless, most tilt-shift lenses are much too expensive to buy without a good reason. I used the Canon version for this article. Of course, Nikon also has its own versions. But perhaps there are more alternatives available. Laowa is one brand that comes to mind, just like Samyang. But it is possible to find some budget version on the market. Who Will Benefit From the Shift Function of a Tilt-Shift Lens? But there will be some degradation in the parts that have been affected by the correction, although I don't think you will notice in most cases. The end result after perspective correction looks great. This is shown in the before/after image below. This can be done by shifting the lens relative to the camera, in this case, upwards. You just have to place the part that will be registered by the sensor in the correct location. Because of the large image circle, the whole building or tree will be visible within that image circle. Shifting To Prevent Perspective Distortion

At the same time, there will be too much ground or pavement in the frame. That is the moment when the shift function of the tilt-shift lens comes in handy. The vertical lines of buildings will be vertical, but the building might not fit into the frame. So, if you can hold your camera perfectly horizontal, the perspective distortion is absent. There might be some regular barrel distortion, but that is due to the physics of the lens. If you hold your camera perfectly horizontal, you will see the lines become normal again. By tilting upwards, the perspective distortion is huge. With a 17mm wide angle lens, this is the result with this building.
