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Feature: Best photography techniques<br />
Before ‘tilt-shit’ technique<br />
After ‘tilt-shit’ technique<br />
the first one for their SLR cameras back<br />
in 1962. You can still buy these devices,<br />
and they are often used by architecture<br />
photographers to shoot tall buildings.<br />
However, most digital photographers<br />
use a software simulation of the effect<br />
on the computer to take an image and<br />
tinker with the perspective and focus. The<br />
common use is to fake miniature scenes<br />
with real locations, but they can also solve<br />
the perspective issue of shooting large<br />
objects from relatively low level.<br />
Many tilt-shift shots are often taken from<br />
an elevated location, simulating a viewing<br />
angle is the one that you’d experience<br />
looking down on a model city/scene.<br />
You can buy a proper tilt shifting lens,<br />
or use software (such as Photoshop or<br />
Lightroom) instead that usually offers<br />
more control. Plenty of phone apps have<br />
a tilt-shift effect, too.<br />
21. Shooting<br />
Panoramas on a DSLR<br />
The most basic requirement for doing good<br />
panoramas with a camera is a tripod. Using<br />
one allows the camera to pan accurately, and<br />
avoid unintentional pitch angle changes.<br />
At least a third of each frame should<br />
overlap the next, and much more overlap if<br />
there are foreground objects close to you.<br />
Having a grid with ‘thirds’ active is good if<br />
you have that, and any viewfinder grid is a<br />
useful reference. For those wanting the very<br />
best quality creating a horizontal panorama<br />
should consider shooting in portrait mode,<br />
as it will give you the best vertical resolution.<br />
And, always use exposure lock, so that all the<br />
images end up with the same light levels.<br />
There are special tripod mounts available<br />
to help shoot panoramic, though you’d<br />
need to be very keen on them to invest<br />
in one of these. Those with even greater<br />
resources should buy a drone, for the<br />
ultimate panoramic results. A Panorama can<br />
be vertical and not horizontal, especially if<br />
you’ve got access to a drone (see right).<br />
A Panorama can be vertical<br />
and not horizontal, especially<br />
if you’ve got access to a drone<br />
<strong>July</strong> <strong>2017</strong> www.pcadvisor.co.uk/features 89
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