Technique - how is this done?

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go to nickbrandt.com
enter the web site (new window)
click 'photography'
the images are divided in to groups of four on the bottom
slide to the 10th group of four (top left is a lion, top right an
elephant closeup, bottom right a leopard on a hill, bottom left a
leopard closeup)
click on the top right picture (elephant closeup)

my question is about the elephant picture (although there are many
others in the sets with the same plane of focus interestingness)

i can not figure out how the planes of focus work in these images
without doing blurring in photoshop (he said in an interview that the
focus/blurring was done in camera)? this is obviously not just shallow
depth of field in the way it is normally thought about...

i'm thinking it might be something that is done with a view camera by
tilting the film plane or something like that but i can't find a list
of equipment he uses so i'm not sure.

anyway, many of his images are absolutely amazing, i just find those
with the "altered" planes of focus especially interesting.

anyone know how it's done?

brian

Brian wrote:
I didn't know anywhere else to post this...

go to nickbrandt.com
enter the web site (new window)
click 'photography'
the images are divided in to groups of four on the bottom
slide to the 10th group of four (top left is a lion, top right an
elephant closeup, bottom right a leopard on a hill, bottom left a
leopard closeup)
click on the top right picture (elephant closeup)

my question is about the elephant picture (although there are many
others in the sets with the same plane of focus interestingness)

i can not figure out how the planes of focus work in these images
without doing blurring in photoshop (he said in an interview that the
focus/blurring was done in camera)? this is obviously not just shallow
depth of field in the way it is normally thought about...

i'm thinking it might be something that is done with a view camera by
tilting the film plane or something like that but i can't find a list
of equipment he uses so i'm not sure.

anyway, many of his images are absolutely amazing, i just find those
with the "altered" planes of focus especially interesting.

anyone know how it's done?

brian



Tilt-shift lens, probably. It looks like something you can do with a
Lensbaby. (http://www.lensbabies.com)

"Brian" wrote in message
oups.com...
I didn't know anywhere else to post this...

go to nickbrandt.com
enter the web site (new window)
click 'photography'

Requires Flash. Forget it.

Greg

hmn...it seems like it's a little more controlled than can be done with
a lensbaby (i've never used one, just judging by the sample galleries,
etc). but i might have to buy one to try it out anyway!

for the flash problem...
well you can look at lenswork.com as well but i don't know what's
included in the sample pages. or if you have the magazine of course
that works.



G.T. wrote:
"Brian" wrote in message
oups.com...
I didn't know anywhere else to post this...

go to nickbrandt.com
enter the web site (new window)
click 'photography'

Requires Flash. Forget it.

Greg

Brian wrote:

anyway, many of his images are absolutely amazing, i just find those
with the "altered" planes of focus especially interesting.

anyone know how it's done?

I'm not really sure that it's anything other than a very wide aperture
and since the subject is complex in depth, there are areas in-focus and
areas blurred. This effect occurs often when shooting macro on complex
subjects ... parts you don't exepect be in focus are, and v.v.

Regardless, a lot of remarkable _compositions_ in that collection.

Cheers,
Alan


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