[Adam]

Why pseudo, and why is everything but the boat blurry? I haven't gotten a chance to play with my tilt/shift lens yet, so I'm fairly clueless as to what the results could be

[hockmasm]

i photoshped this to make the boat the only thing in focus.

[tootall]

Correct me if I'm wrong, the idea behind the tilt-shift effect is to create a sense of DOF. In this photo you only have the boat in focus, everything else to the left & right isn't.

Also the area of focus seems to end very sharply if you know what I mean.

[hockmasm]

i should re-title this. its not really tilt-shift now that i think about it

[stevebrot]

Correct me if I'm wrong, the idea behind the tilt-shift effect is to create a sense of DOF...

The purpose of a tilt-shift lens is to provide perspective correction similar to what is possible with the movements on a view camera. They are most commonly used for architectural photography. The tilt also allows manipulation of the plane of focus to allow elements of a scene to be in focus despite limited DOF.

Unfortunately, the term "tilt-shift" has been commonly applied to photos taken with a Lens Baby or similar lens. It also can refer to photos that have been altered in software to give the illusion of highly selective focus. As noted on another thread, the Lens Baby "look" is more of a fuzzy lens with a movable region of sharper focus. This provides a number of creative affects that include the popular "miniaturized" look. For fun, I sometimes use "tilt-shift" software. Here is a LINK to a few examples.


Steve

[tuco]

Selective focus using shift/tilt movements happens on plane of focus. With those trees taking up the full frame in the foreground, I doubt you'd be able to pull that kind of selective focus off for real without getting something of them in focus.