Palm Trees and Warped Structures
The first photo is a palm tree I saw from across the street and was almost ran over by a seasonal Palm Beach transplant who did not stop for the light. It is by far my favorite palm tree I have ever captured. So I wanted to share.
The second is a building I jumped out of my truck at a stop light to shoot yesterday and for some reason I feel the lines are not correct. I am having issues critiquing it myself. There is something seriously bothering me about the way the building is bowing. I shot it with a 16-35mm at I believe 18mm. I do feel it is over saturated but I am more worried about the strength of the lines and bowing. Maybe someone has some advise for me. I did the best I could manually straightening the lines within lightroom but cant seem to get it right in my head. ---- I am looking at the relationship between the Line of the left side of the building, the street lamp and the top right of the building near the roof that is bending no matter what I do. Any thoughts or maybe a book to reference would be awesome.
Many thanks,
Carl
Labels: Architecture, Nikon D810, Palm Tree
posted by Unknown at 11:12 AM
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Carl,
Nice palm tree composition, almost abstract. :)
I'm not an expert on this by any means, but your distortion question leads to a complex discussion of different types of distortion. Your image probably has differing types of distortion going on: optical and perspective. Some distortion is not completely correctable as you discovered on this image. More reading here: https://photographylife.com/what-is-distortion
--Warren
Thanks Warren!
I saved that article to read later. I appreciate it. I am going to be doing a lot more Architectural shooting and I am finding my perception off a bit when composing. but when looking at some artists who shoot landscape often and for a living I am finding the same in some of their work. I just know I have a lot learn.
thank you for the direction.
Also read about tilt/shift, perspective control lenses. These are used by architectural photographers since the film days. And use a tripod with a level for more precise camera positioning.
--WT
Yea, I almost bought a tilt shift lens before I decided on the 16-35 for Real Estate shoots. Whats the expression? Learn to walk before you can run. I actually ran into my first instance Thursday where I finally understood why the tilt shift is such a great tool. Unless I am jumping out of my car at stop lights. =) I force myself to always use a tripod when shooting Realestate. Which you just reminded me I need to tighten the cheap bolts they put on mine.
Have you ever used a Tilt Shift Lens?
I've never used a PC lens myself. Maybe Dan has?
--WT
Excellent angle and nice sky clouds on the first photo. Gorgeous building and nice composition, wonderful images. awesome !
Lena,
You make us jealous as we get ready for a winter Carl. I like the palm from the angel you chose. If you are a photoshop user the Building can be corrected via the transform tool. I can walk you through it offline if you want.
Warren is right that you could capture that image with a T/S lens and not do any post processing. Nikon's version is not up to your camera though. Schneider has models that would be up to the d810 though.
**** Did we ever figure out why we can't see comments on posts? ****
I just saw this..
Thanks Lena and Dan!
Yes, I have to admit not dealing with the frigid air is fantastic but now I feel like I am missing out on the changing colors of the world.
- I just started using photoshop or at least playing in it.
- I use Lightroom and it is supposed to have the same correction capabilities. But for the life of me this was as straight as I could get it.
- I may take you up on that offer to see how you would approach it.
I will definitely look into the Schneider lens's for when I can afford it. I am going to take my Architectural and landscaping shots as far as I can go in life.
Thanks for the advise and input
~Carl~
Carl, I thought the comment notifications are working again. You're still not getting emails when someone posts a comment? If you don't, what email address are the notifications supposed to go to?
--WT
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