How do you Visualize Swing + Tilt Together?

[gbenaim]

Hello,

I have a pretty good idea of how to use and visualize each of these movements separately, but have a hard time seeing their effect together. Say you have a plane extending horizontally away ( a sidewalk, e.g.) and one vertically (e.g. a row of buildings along the sidewalk). Independently, one can easily see how tilt and swing, respectively, will help you match the plane of focus to the external plane. But what happens when they're used together? And how does one visualize it? Thanks for any help,

GB

 

[Ole]

Using both tilt and swing together you get a tilted plane of focus. It's equivalent to rotating the front (or back) through an inclined axis.

 

[Larry H-L]

It helps me sometimes to think of holding a sheet of 8x10 glass in my hands. With front tilt, imagine tipping the top of the glass away from you. For front swing, now imagine also tipping one side of the glass away from you. (Keeping the top tipped back). That will give you a general idea of your plane of focus.

Then imagine a second sheet of glass at the same angle, floating out there away from you, with your subject in between the two sheets of glass. That's your depth of field. Well, maybe I AM crazy.