LIFESTYLES
WEEKEND, SEPTEMBER 16-17, 2017
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Dantan Bertsch of Eastend, Saskatchewan, Canada, rides Zip Code for 71.5 points in bareback riding on Wednesday at the Pendleton Round-Up.
Sometimes it is
necessary to look at life
through a new lens — to
shift one’s perspective
and give new life to the
old vision. This seems
especially true for an artist.
So I bought a new tilt-shift
lens to do just that.
I actually made the
purchase a few weeks ago
and have been hesitant to
pull the new lens out of my
camera bag until this week.
For one, I didn’t really
know how to use it. And
two, I did not want to take
images that were cliché
or gimmicky — where
I just relied on the lens
effect without taking into
consideration of the content
of photos I was creating.
But since it is the week of
the Pendleton Round-Up, I
decided to Let ‘er Tilt-Shift
(Yeah, I know. I kinda
forced that one).
A tilt-shift lens harkens
back to the yesteryear
of photography, when
photographers like Ansel
Adams would lug around
their giant bellows camera,
that old-timey device that
looked like an accordion,
in the latter half of the 19th
Century and the early parts
of the 20th Century taking
mostly stilllife images. One
of the capabilities of these
cameras was the ability to
shift the lens plane away
from the image plane.
This ability allows the
photographer to manipulate
the plane of focus in a
image in ways normal
camera lenses cannot.
Now the modern
tilt-shift lens for 35mm
cameras has abandoned
the bellows structure for a
ball and socket structure,
but the effect is the same:
A focal plane that slices
through the image at
whichever angle the
photographer desires.
I spent the first half
of this week to hit the
Round-Up running with
Shifting
Perspectives
By E.J. HARRIS
East Oregonian
my new lens in hand. It
has been an extremely
rewarding learning
experience for me.
I hope you all enjoy
my photos as much as I
enjoyed creating them for
you.
Let’er Buck!
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
Cody McCleary of Walla Walla picks packed mud out of the hoof of a horse during slack on Tuesday
in the Pendleton Round-Up Arena.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris
William Jons of Hermiston rides into the arena carrying the U.S. flag during the opening ceremony Wednesday of
the Pendleton Round-Up.
LEFT: The cavalry saber is
attached to the saddle of
a mounted soldier from
the 1st Infantry Divi-
sion command general’s
mounted color guard on
Wednesday at the Pend-
leton Round-Up.
FAR LEFT: A bird flies
over the teepees in the
Indian Village on Tues-
day at the Pendleton
Round-Up Grounds.
Staff photo by E.J. Harris