On my trip back East, there were two distinct parts. The first was family time in PA. The second half was NJ and NY. My grandmother lives a train ride away from the city, so I stayed there and took a trip to NY. I went to Manhattan for a day. I didn’t want to bring all of my gear, so I decided to pick one lens, and shoot the whole day with only it. That’s a tough decision for a gear head like myself!
So I decided to bring the most difficult lens I have, the 45mm tilt shift (Perspective Control PC-E in Nikon speak). The difficulty provides an interesting challenge that I enjoy a lot! This lens allows you to change the focal plane so that it is not perpendicular to the camera sensor. So what this means is that you can make areas of the photo in focus (or not), that are not necessarily the same distance from you.
This lens is experiencing a fad-like popularity right now. It’s somewhat easy to take a subject, like a person, and blur everything around them. It’s only somewhat easy because you still have to manual focus the lens! But you can get the effect and still be ignorant of how to use the lens to it’s full capability. In this series of images I angled the focal plane to create visual ties between parts of the images. So as you look at the images, pay attention to what parts of the photos are in focus, and what parts are not. Trippy huh? :>)
And if you aren’t interested in the technical mumbo jumbo . . . just enjoy the scenery from the most infamous parts of NJ! Haha!
by stevez
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