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St Neot Church, Bodmin Moor


john_r_smith

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as the image was taken on a digital, could you not have straightened the vertical of the tower digitally? I learnt how to do it in photoshop 7 using the 'measure tool' and canvas,rotate arbitary. In my darkroom I have to tilt the enlarger baseboard to do it !

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Peter

 

yes, a perfectly valid criticism. I was downslope of the church in my shooting position, so of course I was in big trouble from the converging vertical problem. Oh, for a shift lens! (or a cherry-picker to stand in). I have messed around in PS correcting perspective here at work, but frankly I've never liked the results much. I decided to live with the leaning tower of St Neot on this one because the whole picture was essentially pictorial rather than a strict architectural record, and in some ways I quite liked the old fashioned look - hence the high-key treatment. I should have used my old view camera with its rising front, perhaps :)

 

John

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John,

 

Shots of churches often leave me cold but this one is very pleasing, lovely composition and great tones.

 

It's funny how we obsess about correcting the converging verticals in photographs and yet when I use CAD to create a visual of a building, or object, I set the verticals to converge to make it look real. Funny world. Like contemporary musicians adding vinyl-like clicks to their digitally recorded music. I wonder will we be adding fake dust spots to our digital images in time :)

 

Michael

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John, good image, excecpt that there is too less sky for my taste, the building is pressed in the framing if you know what i mean. This is a shot for a 4x5".

I will be in Cornwall in some weeks, you have to tell me the nice places !

 

Best, Ronald

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Michael and Ronald

 

thanks for taking the time to comment. You are right, the shot is squeezed a bit - this is because I simply couldn't get any further back, and of course you can't just swap to a 24mm lens on the LC1 (if only). To be honest, I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that this is one of my less successful pictures. But you know how it is, I really liked it last Sunday, thought it was still pretty good on Wednesday, but by today I am rapidly going off it :) Why isn't there some way you can have second thoughts and delete a posting? Ronald, the weather here is great at the moment, bright with some great clouds so let's hope it holds up for your trip.

 

John

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