I ‘read’ a lot of photos and some of my favourite images I am starting to see must have been shot with a tilt-shift lens. Well, there are a lot of images that I am now seeing were potentially shot with a tilt-shift lens in food photography, and that’s why I wasn’t able to replicate its aspects. Have you ever admired a photo and tried to replicate it’s technical aspects only to find that you failed miserably? This is really powerful for shooting cover or product/packaging images. You can selectively control the plane of focus, allowing the dish at the front of the image to be super in focus, whilst the background story is superbly out of focus.Īngle/subject position control. You can shoot a dish in its most flattering angle, and control how much of the story/props around the frame are included without changing the camera angle, distance or the subject placement. Using a tilt-shift allows us to have control over the plane of focus to give the mix of focus and blur we see in this shot. There are two main reasons for using this lens for food photography, (and no surprise there is one for the tilt function and for the shift function). If that didn’t leave you totally confused, I’m sure you’re eager to know how a lens like this would improve your food photography.Ī number of commercial and professional food photographers use this lens, with a fellow advertising food photographer sharing with me on Instagram that he almost exclusively shoots commercial jobs with his tilt-shift. Using a Tilt-Shift Lens in Food Photography
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