You guys must have been looking at non shifted converging lines images all your life. Those converging verticals are not at all natural looking but you seem to be so used to looking at them you think they someohow are natural? I am not saying the altered version looks totally correct either ( it cant ) but the first version is not very realistic looking to my eye.
This is one of the reasons I enjoy 4x5 photography so much, you do not have to make these compromises as you can just shift the lens to get the most natural looking image possible. What would be interesting would be for you to go back and photograph the scene from the same point with a camera equipped with a shift lens and then compared that to the original and altered versions of this image. Regarding as to whether rectangles should be rendered as trapezoids or as rectangles, if you shift lens , they remain rectangles regardless of height and look really nice to my eyes....I don't think the pro architechural photogs would be using shift lens techniques if they looked the same or worse than non shift techniques... JCO -----Original Message----- From: Shel Belinkoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PESO: Classic Movie House Hi Paul, Not much of a pic, IMO, but such images are kind of nice to have around. One can never tell when they may be useful, and they certainly may have some value historically at some point. However, the photo does bring up an interesting point, and that is the best, or perhaps, most interesting, time of day to make such a shot. With the marquee lights being on, I'd guess that the time was early evening (oh, I see now, just before sunset), but the sky looks a little too bright for that. There are a couple of marquees around here that I'd like to snap, and was thinking that around sunset (a little later than your shot, perhaps) may be a better time, affording a bit of interest in the sky and a darker background to offset and lend more "punch" to the marquee. Any comments? As for the perspective business, JCO's adjustment doesn't seem at all natural. There should be a little taper to the marquee, and any other tall vertical when viewed from ground level. I may be mistaken, but weren't the columns on the Parthenon build to be a little wider at the top so that when viewed from ground level they'd appear not to taper? Shel > [Original Message] > From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I used the PhotoShop 81 warming filter on this after processing the > RAW. I probably could have achieved exactly the same result by turning > up the temperature in the RAW converter, but the need for a warmer look > was an afterthought. The photo was taken just before sunset but the > sign was in the shade. > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2934923
