I borrowed two lenses to test out this week. They arrived yesterday and I quickly put them to work. The two lens I received are the Canon EF 500mm /4.0L I.S. USM & EF TS-E 24mm /3.5L II. I have only briefly used these two lenses. I headed out for a 2 hour shoot this morning at sunrise. The Tilt Shift was the lens I was most interested in checking out. I have heard lots of talk on the web about these lenses and had to find out for myself.
What’s so cool about the Tilt Shift lens? The TS changes the perspective of the image. In addition, a regular lens with a small aperture gives you great depth of field, this lens does this and more, by changing the focal planes. This gives the images some crazy effects. One of the effect you get give the image a miniature feel:
After a great and fun morning shoot I meet up with Zack, Tommie and Julien for a very fun surf session at the pier. We surfed for a couple hours in the 45 degree air and the slightly chilly water, but with my killer O’Neill 5/4/3 Mutant wetsuit it was no problem. Mel took a couple photos while we were out there, including this one of me:
