Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted - Many thanks, older and wiser brother.... ;-) The trick you gave us of squaring the image in the camera finder after framing it in the 15mm finder really works. It's gets me within a degree or two of dead nuts square much of the time - not always, but often enough. As long as the camera was otherwise square to the subject, that small degree of tilt is easily taken out in Photoshop with no added distortion. It's the equivalent of a bit of easel rotation in printing. It's sometimes hard to decide what to square up to though. I made the near edge of the ATM booth <http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/4_31A_0167_web> vertical in the camera finder and it came out that way on the negative but the far end posts and the roof sign were way out of whack as a result. Pulling the image around a bit in Photoshop, like a piece of taffy, got everything aligned, but what a pile of work it was to make everything look square! :-) In retrospect, in this case, it might have been better to square things up in the 15mm finder against some "average" or imagined vertical in the scene. Dick >Richard S. Taylor showed: >>>THREE NEW PIX" Re: [Leica] Cape Cod in Winter - Part 2 > >>However, faced with this tight cropping of one of my 15mm shots >>(making it about a 35mm shot) >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/5_16A_0188_web >> >>B.D. said essentially "much better, Richard," and Ted said >>something along the lines of "Geez, you've got the 15 on the >>camera, make use of it," e.g., >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/5_16A_0188_crop2_web >>> What's a guy to do??? :-)<<<<<< > >Hi Dick >Listen to me because I'm the older and wiser brother! ;-) :-) > >>In any case, here's three more from this series. > >> >http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/4_31A_0167_web >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/4_26A_0162_web >>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/CAPE_COD/4_34A_0170_web > >I like all 3 pictures, but what I'm more impressed with is.... "your >technical handling in holding the camera!" Given you've only used >the 15mm lens a short period of time it appears you've got the >vertical and horizontal handling on the mark. > >The 15mm is no easy lens to use anytime, as many on the list can >attest to. But you've knocked these off very nicely in quick order >for handling technique. If one considers the amount of vertical and >horizontal lines in these buildings and how you've shot them, >"looking normal" you've done a damn fine job. > >Certainly in capturing the Cape at it's bleakest looking time. > >Well done, good on you. > >ted > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information