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Thank you, Marco! Much appreciated,
Mark is a great guy. Genuinely interested in people and what they have to say. How he can do that while holding a camera in front of his face will never cease to amaze.
That was a terrific explanation! What most people forget to mention when they talk about tilt and shift is that the image is upside down, and that affects how the controls work - everything is reversed. Great job explaining it. BTW, that's a quintessential mathematician's shirt.
Peter, that is precisely my goal as a teacher and as a mathematician. Thank you much! (And Mark Mann is pretty good, too)
Now try explaining to people why the dust on their sensor is reversed up/down from the test image, but NOT left/right.That was a terrific explanation! What most people forget to mention when they talk about tilt and shift is that the image is upside down, and that affects how the controls work - everything is reversed. Great job explaining it. BTW, that's a quintessential mathematician's shirt.
Your fashion sense is timeless. The good news is that it's easy to shop for clothes. They have the big and tall shops, I wonder if they have the math teacher shops. I bet that would be a hit!Peter, that is precisely my goal as a teacher and as a mathematician. Thank you much! (And Mark Mann is pretty good, too)
Now try explaining to people why the dust on their sensor is reversed up/down from the test image, but NOT left/right.
Funny about the shirt. When I consult for Hedge Funds and meet (or Zoom) with their clients, they request that I dress that way. I guess no one trusts a mathematician in a jacket and tie. And yes, I was teaching in plaid flannel shirts 40 years ago, too.
--Matt
Well done. One thousand words make a picture
Nicely explained! Your tilt explanation was the most comprehensible I’ve seen so far. It’s a skill to make fairly complex things understandable, well done!
Many thanks. That is my passion. I want to shine light on things so that they can be seen and not just known.
I agree completely on the value of "hands on" tools for understanding. Thank you for the link.I enjoyed your video Matt. Your explanation is definitely simpler than Leslie Stroebel's.
People learn in so many different ways. I find I prefer functional models, whether physical or computer-based. Years ago Tim Parkin put up a simple model to illustrate tilt. I come back to it again and again. Most recently I used it to understand better how longer focal lengths behave when tilting.
In case anyone else finds this kind of thing useful, I'll park a link here to complement Matt's video. http://static.timparkin.co.uk/static/dslr-tilt-shift/
Someone who had the programming skills could update this thing in a couple ways that would make it a lot more useful. Alas, that's not me.
The diagrams you drew in your video are another example of what works well Matt. In fact, the whole package worked well because of how you combined narrative, drawings, and physical demonstrations.
Good lord, yes. I could have gone into the stitching advantage of shift, or eliminating the photographer's reflection be shooting a bit from the side, or swing, or ANY artistic application of changing geometry and focus. But yes, the goal was to use the simplest cases where the tools would seem necessary.
Definitely in the works. Thanks!Very interesting & entertaining to watch. Good to know Mark is your brother in law. I watched his leicavideo and already love his photography.
And yes, subcribed & hit the bell. Hope to see more stuff from you guys
