“Tilt-shift” encompasses two different types of movements: rotation of the lens plane relative to the image plane, called tilt, and movement of the lens parallel to the image plane, called shift. Tilt is used to control the orientation of the plane of focus (PoF), and hence the part of an image that appears sharp; it makes use of the Scheimpflug principle. Shift is used to adjust the position of the subject in the image area without moving the camera back; this is often helpful in avoiding the convergence of parallel lines, as when photographing tall buildings.

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Susan Boyle’s ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ debuts at #1 on the ARIA Album Chart

LMFAO accrue five weeks at the singles peak with ‘Sexy And I Know It’

Susan Boyle enjoys her third Australian chart-topping album, as ‘Someone to Watch Over Me’ debuts at number one on the ARIA Album Chart! She is the first 50 year old to top the chart since Jimmy Barnes a little over two years ago, and all three of her albums feature in the top 100 this week, with the first, ‘I Dreamed A Dream’ at 59 and second, ‘The Gift’, at 78. Over on the singles chart, LMFAO chalk up five weeks at the top with ‘Sexy And I Know It’. Combined with the ten weeks that their smash hit ‘Party Rock Anthem’ spent at #1 on the ARIA Singles Chart earlier in the year, it ensures they have had the longest run in top spot in a calendar year by one act since 1976, when Abba had five number ones for a cumulative total of 30 weeks.
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It’s time to reveal some of the special performances and guest presenters who will light up the stage at the 2011 ARIA Awards on Sunday, 27 November at Allphones Arena in Sydney. Broadcast by GO! from 7.30pm on Sunday, 27 November 2011, industry tickets to the event are selling fast with only a handful of tables still available. General public tickets are also selling well with organisers expecting to put

up the sold-out sign at the venue in the days prior to the event.

ARIA is also proud to announce that, for the first time ever, the ARIA Awards television broadcast along with backstage shenanigans and celebrity interviews will also be streamed on mobiles, thanks to Optus.
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Review by Billy Geary

First impressions are forever important in almost every aspect of life. Upon walking through the gates at Werribee Park at around midday for the start of the highly anticipated Harvest Festival, the first impressions were good, very good. The choice of location couldn’t have been better; the picturesque parklands featured some beautiful gardens and space aplenty for the 15,000 people in attendance. When not factoring the slightly problematic issue of Werribee being a good hours drive from Melbourne, it’s an absolute mystery why Harvest was the first music festival to utilise the venue. Touted as a peaceful gathering of music and arts lovers alike, Harvest more than lived up to its claims. The significant lack of southern-cross brandishing folk competing for bogan of the year was welcomed by all, with the sight of police chilling out and dancing to the music along with punters perhaps the best indication of the festivals succuss.

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Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Continue reading Good Charlotte @ Jack Daniel’s – The JD Set, Brisbane – November 12th, 2011 | Photo Gallery →

Photographer: Chris Dornan Photography
Continue reading Amy Meredith, Trial Kennedy @ Jack Daniel’s – The JD Set, Brisbane – November 12th, 2011 | Photo Gallery →

Brisbane’s newest and arguably most exciting boutique music event – Track & Field – is back with a second event to be held at The Arena, Friday November 25. Once again presented by music companies Amplifire and Mucho-Bravado, the event features another star-swollen line-up of Australian indie talent. It includes Gold Coast punk-rockers Bleeding Knees Club, a single launch appearance by Sydney

psychedelic heroes Deep Sea Arcade, Brisbane party-starters Velociraptor and the rapidly emerging locals Gung Ho. Additionally there will be DJ sets from indie-darlings Little Scout, party stimulants Naysayer and Gilsun and local radio duo Unnecessary Knowledge DJs. Continue reading Parkour, Brisbane Style – Track & Field #2 →

Interview by Chris Dornan

After rave reviews, (Four stars – Herald Sun, Four stars – The Pun) an eye popping incident and sell out shows at the Adelaide Fringe & Melbourne International Comedy Festival with his 2011 hit show Pundamonium, Lindsay Webb is back and previewing his 2012 Festival show Humanity. Chris Dornan chats with Lindsay Webb

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Northcote Independent Fashion Festival announces this years stellar line up for their annual premier event NIFFTY. To be held on Friday November 18th at the Northcote Social Club, the event will be a celebration of fashion as an accessible and essential mode of self expression. NIFFTY reveals the best of High Street Northcote’s fashion in a unique showcase, where the clothes are flaunted by many of Melbourne’s finest musicians.

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Lenny Kravitz will tour Australia in March 2012 with special guests The Cranberries and Wolfmother. Tickets on sale 9am Wed 21 Nov. http://www.mcmanusentertainment.com/ for more info.

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Roadrunner Records announced today the addition of French metal behemoths Gojira to the label. The band is universally recognized as one of the most talented and extreme art-metal acts on the scene today. Gojira are one of those rare bands that come along every couple of years and take everything you know about metal, twist it, reimagine it and come up with something wholly unique. It’s doubtful you’ve heard anything like Gojira before. The band makes that much of an impact with its music and approach.

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Direct from Nashville, Tennessee, please welcome The Dynamites, straight-up, badass deep funk and super soul!

Making a sensational Australian debut at the Byron Bay Blues Festival in 2010, US funk masters The Dynamites featuring Charles Walker were quickly summoned back to these fair shores at the beginning of this year to play key festival dates and venues – most notably smoking it up for 35,000 party goers at Sydney Festival’s “First Night”.
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Big Day Out 2012 Second Announcement! Our goal, as always, is to deliver the best experience possible for everyone, including the artists and the BDO team. This year we have made some changes to ensure our BEST always comes before BIG at all costs. STAY INFORMED VIA OUR SOCIALS: twitter.com/bdo_official (And don’t forget to #bdo_official) facebook.com/bigdayoutofficialpage youtube.com/bigdayoutofficial

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ATTENTION CANBERRA BANDS AND DJS! Here’s your chance to play at this year’s MISSION TO LAUNCH FESTIVAL – Canberra’s #1 New Year’s Eve party – alongside some of the biggest names in music from Australia and around the world including Sneaky Sound System, The Living End and Ian Carey. HOW, YOU ASK? Just enter the Mission To Launch band/DJ competition!

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Dan Sultan brings the band back to Brisbane by popular demand. The band’s come a long way since their pumping sell-out Brisbane shows way back in May 2010. In that time dynamic front man Dan Sultan went on to win “ARIA Male Artist of the Year” whilst the band’s album Get Out While You Can picked up an ARIA gong for “Best Blues & Roots Album”. Notably Dan Sultan and his musical partner Scott Wilson were nominated for the highly prestigious and coveted APRA Breakthrough Songwriters of the Year 2011.

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