SF Skyline
I was out at the Embarcadero a few weeks back with my Canonet. I walked out onto a new pier that was finished not too long ago and snapped this photo. I don't know how many of you out there are into rangefinders, but if you just want a good camera, get yourself a Canonet. I can't say enough about the way it feels and handles. A classic.Eric
posted by Eric at 4:28 PM
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I like the crisp and clean appearance of the shot. I'm trying to remember where you would have shot this from….on a boat?
Dolph:
Thank you. I shot it from a pier just completed a few months back. It lets you go out into the bay. It's nice. I didn't notice it, but Warren told me about some distortion of the Ferry Building tower. It's slanted to the left. He told me about a tool in Adobe to straighten it out. I'm gonna check it out for sure. Adobe is some great software. Computers and software can sure be wondrous things.
Eric
Eric, you probably know this, but it's not a distortion inherent in the lens, but rather it's a result of tilting a wide-angle lens upward resulting in slanted lines where they should be vertical. Sometimes in can't be helped because your composition requires that you aim the lens up to get everything in, but it can be correctied via post-processing in PS. In film photography, architectural images were often shot with pan/tilt cameras or perspective control lenses (in 35mm).
This shot is still okay as it is, I just thought it might be an interesting exercise, and good practice in using the PS perspective modification tool.
--WT
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