Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Philippe, you have touched on parts of the problems I thought lot about while processing them - however straight they are they never look quite right, I tried perspective, I tried skew, I even tried stretching the towers in all sorts of directions. I gave up after a lot of rejects and the result is what you see. The one of the towers is , however , still a little unnerving, all the angles are correct but it just doesn't look right. I'm pretty sure it's not the fault of the lens, the Tokina 12-24 is an excellent piece of work, more likely to be something to do with how we "see" things. Thanks for taking a look and your fascinating comments - food for thought indeed. Douglas Philippe Orlent wrote: > Beautiful series, Douglas. > > Now, about the first one, and the car storage towers, > Very strange effects on both: they are perfectly straight (I checked > this at large magnification, though it just being via your low res > jpegs) but they don't seem so optically. > This causes imbalance. > In the first one's case, this is due to an optical effect (dome vs > 'straight' chimney), and in the second one it's due to a light effect > (dark cilinders vs light on the forward one from the right). > In both cases, it has a compositional effect: whether you choose to > keep this imbalance or not, is entirely up to you. You determine the > effect. > And wether it 'd be imblanced or not, it's just two different but > equally acceptable ways of 'seeing' and 'presenting' this image. > > So, astonishing shots, that I'd love to see on a big and detailed print. > > Personally, I think that if you would PS the first one so that the > chimney would 'lean' a bit more towards the dome, and 'lean' the > towers a bit more to the right part of the image, you would take away > this imbalance, and attain a higher level of classical aesthetics. > But that is just a matter of taste, and does not change my > appreciation of the shots at all. > > Beautiful tonalities, too BTW. > > Thanks for showing, > Philippe > > > > Op 27-okt-07, om 18:06 heeft Douglas Sharp het volgende geschreven: > >> A few more from the VW site in Wolfsburg last weekend - this time in >> black and white >> >> This is part of the house that Adolf built >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105184-1/VW_Chimney.jpg >> >> This place is so large that people move around in groups, it makes you >> feel slightly lost and nervous >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105168-1/Herding_behaviour.jpg >> >> and people don't look at anyone else - the man was less than 3 feet away >> when I stuck my camera more or less in his face >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105171-1/Reception_Desk_2.jpg >> >> This is where the new cars are stored >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105181-1/VW_Towers.jpg >> >> This is where customers can watch them being "extracted" >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/105178-2/VW_Tower_2.jpg >> >> Hope you enjoy looking at them more than we enjoyed our visit - if >> you're only there to pick up your new car 4 to 5 hours there is more >> than enough. >> Cheers >> Douglas >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >