Re: Sundial Trick Photography

[Mario Arnaldi]

...But I discovered that by using digital editing, you can stretch or compress a photo so that it appears that camara was directly over the dial!  I discovered this while using the "perspective" and "distort" features of Adobe Photo Delux. --------------------   Yes John is right,   I also usualy do it, because I am a bad photographer, and digital solutions was since the beguining the best solution also to improve the light and colours. But there is a but, the straching of a photo really works wel only with bidimentional images (i.e. pictures, frescoes, mosaics, painted sundials, etc.), usualy the sundial have a gnomon that is tridimentional and if you get a photo from i.e. a horizontal sundial and the image show it in prospective it will be very hard to obtain a good illusion. So I think that the photo shouldn't be too in distorted if they have inside an object 3d like the gnomon or style.   Mario -------------------------------------------------------- Mario Arnaldi V.le Leonardo, 82 I-48020 LIDO ADRIANO - Ravenna Italy   E-Mai:l [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://digilander.iol.it/McArdal Shop: http://web.tiscalinet.it/McArdal -----------------------------------------------------------