The definition of Tilt_&_Shift provided in the description of today's GOTD is somewhat misleading. Purpose of those (expensive) lenses is to increse the depth of field mainly in macro-photography.
(e.g. when shooting miniature-models like in railroad modeling)
Everything in front and beyond the "perfect focus range" will result blurred because out of focus - nothing to do with the "bokeh effect" which is intentionally created by mean of appropriate filters - at least using traditional cameras.
Nonetheless the program offered today might be interesting just for the purpose to create a bokeh effect mainly to drive the attention to a specific subjet/point of an image blurring the front and background parts. While interesing this has absolutely nothing to do with the purpose the shift-and-tilt lenses have been conceived for!

El Coyote  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+105)

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Here is their gallery !!!

Hariks  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+67)

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@#6 El Coyote is quite right. The purpose of a tilt & shift lens (or the movements of a large format camera) is exactly the opposite to the effect produced by this software - i.e. to bring into focus parts of a photograph that would otherwise be out-of-focus due to depth-of-field limitations. The other function is to correct perspective - e.g. the tapered appearance of a tall building photographed from ground level or converging lines - e.g. railway lines. As far as I can see, this software doesn't do that at all.

The effect produced here can be easily achieved in-camera by aperture adjustment which is why it is only supplied on Canon's entry-level compacts. The naming and description at best demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge of photographic principles and at worst, a deliberate attempt to mislead. Certainly nothing I would pay $50 (or even $5) for.

Andy  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+51)

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The gallery is interesting and reveals the scope of what the filter effects can do. There are many uses for this! However, it is really a "letterbox of focus" with various blurring effects beyond the focus window. The effects only work well for some pictures where the composition is itself bounded by a "letterbox".

The results are dreadful when a certain depth of field should be included but the object extends beyond the letterbox. See their own gallery for pictures that work... (e.g. the airport, park shots, where the focus in on small objects like people)... but also the pictures that dont work (e.g. the in city shots with buildings taller than the letterbox).

A real tilt-shift lens gives much more creativity. But use this filter with point and shoot cameras and you can obtain some fun effects. However, I think this should be a $5 filter plugin for photoshop etc. and not as an overpriced standalone application.

lemonadesoda  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+49)

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I use tilt and shift lenses all the time (architectural and advertising photographer) they are mainly used to provide a parellel plane towards the film taking surface (sensor) thus eliminating converging verticals (tilt) and to eliminate reflections of camera and tripod (possibly photographer) in say shop windows or indeed mirror like surfaces the shift comes into play, also very handy for macro photography to increase depth of field by using tilt. A cheaper method for creating miniature effects would be to use a lens baby lens designed for this purpose and macro use. Will try this out and see if it stacks up against Photoshop (mainly in terms of speed to do the same job).

PictureMe  –  13 years ago  –  ¿Te ha parecido útil este comentario? si | no (+45)

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