Bending Nature
After experimenting with the TTArtisan 50mm f/1.4 Tilt lens in London’s crowded streets, I decided to take it somewhere quieter, a slow, contemplative walk in a local park in the proximity of my current residence, along the small river, surrounded by trees and open space. Armed with my Nikon Z5 and the same fully manual lens, I set out to see how tilt photography could interpret nature. This lens, damn, I love it! Its ability to shift the focus plane in any direction proved just as interesting in the natural environment as in the city. Instead of isolating people in the crowd, I used it to pick out individual tree trunks and leaning branches, letting the rest melt away into a soft, abstract blur. It felt so good, as I had the impression I was painting with light and depth of field Shooting at f/1.4 gives an incredibly shallow depth of field, but combining it with the tilt mechanism adds a great twist, allowing me to focus along a line of trees even if they weren’t in the same focal pla...
