[Leica] IMG: PAW 43 - Architecture HELP NEEDED

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 11:32 AM +0000 11/25/06, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>Dear LUG,
>
>Two views of the interior of the same building: Richard Rodger's St. 
>Katahrine's House
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album347/StKatharinesHouse-2200611.jpg.html
>
>and
>
>http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/PeterDzwig/album347/StKatharine_sHouseInterior.jpg.html

Peter,

There are a couple of issues here. The first is that neither picture 
has a real focus. Your eye kind of wanders all over without finding 
anything to lock on. Rodger's building are all extremely 
mechano-complexo, so that makes it hard, but you have to try and find 
simple, strong elements that can carry the picture and not let your 
eye wander off the page.

The second thing is that neither picture is exactly lined up. The 
problem is that both are very close, especially the second, and that 
kind of requires (usually) that you do the final correction and keep 
the horizontals truly horizontal and the splayed lines mirror images 
of each other. PS makes this sort of correction easy now. Or make it 
definitely non-symmetrical, and then choose a strong angle.

The third thing is that for this type of picture, a wider angle would 
have helped, because that would have defined the converging lines a 
lot better, and made the elements at the ends of those lines of 
lesser importance, and not fighting with the lines. At the moment 
they are too equal in strength, and that is a function of the focal 
length. You could also, of course have chosen a longer focal length 
and med the end elements the stronger ones.

These sort of pictures are tough to do with a handheld 35mm camera, 
but Photoshop can now do things that had to be done formerly on a LF 
groundglass, so it is possible.

All that said, and partly for the above reasons, the second 
(HousInterior.jpg) works better for me, because there is a bit more 
of a focus.

Thanks for showing. I'll always look at pictures of architecture. :-) 
I've seen other pictures of this building, and yours add to the 
understanding of that building.

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