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Is that the alcohol making this blurry? …tilt shift wedding photos

Why’s this image blurry in a funny weird way? I used a Canon 90mm TSE lens which allows me to tilt the glass elements that form the image on the camera sensor. The lens can then focus on more than one place, which is why it’s more than just blur……

These two images connect the sharpness with the audience watching the climatic kiss and triumphant response by John.

Using this method I create more sharpness and viewable material in the picture ’space’.

This image Holly said was her favorite from the whole wedding, and in it I have use the same tilted focus to blur the unimportant parts of the image allowing the band’s equipment to not distract from the moment Holly and John are sharing. A normal lens would render Holly’s hand on John’s back equally sharp to her face. By skewing the focus I put all the attenion in the picture into Holly’s face.

In this shot I connect the sharp area between the maid of honor’s smile and the raised champaign glasses to improve the focus of the story.

You can see continued examples of how I explore the wedding environment using Tilt Shift photography in my wedding photography galleries.

Neil Cowley - www.MakeLoveReal.net