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Tricky shot of an old church
Lorem Ipsum wrote: "Alan Meyer" wrote in message oups.com... Lorem Ipsum wrote: "Scott W" wrote in message oups.com... We have a wonderful old church in town, but it is situated in a spot that make getting a good photo hard. Learn how to use a view camera. Well Lorem, we'll have to bring you up-to-date. Now that we have digital images, we don't need the moving lens boards of view cameras. We can run processing algorithms on the digital image that do the same thing that the slide and tilt of the lens board did on the old view cameras. You are unfortunately misinformed. You cannot replicate the complete functions of a view camera with postprocessing. Focus is the only one you can not, for some this will be an issue for others it will not. BTW did you think my focus was soft somewhere? I thought the focus was pretty good. Scott |
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"Scott W" wrote in message oups.com... Focus is the only one you can not, As if that were not enough. But there are more things a view camera can do that digital postprocessing cannot. |
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Scott W wrote:
For portrait work I can see where that could be an issue but not so much for landscape and architectural work. Quite the opposite. In portrait working, playing around with the plane of focus does not do much good. In the other two fields, however, it is used (well used) a lot. There is only so much DOF, so being able to repositioning it lets you do a lot of good. |
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Tricky shot of an old church
John A. Stovall wrote:
Why then do so many photographers who make a living with architectural photography buy and use tilt and shift lenses and view cameras even for digital work? In large part you use what you know. Past that you need to start with a very high resolution image if it is not going to suffer from the perspective adjustments. In some ways using a tilt and shift lens is easier, in other way not so easy. With a tilt shift lens you can see what you are going to get right from the get go, doing it in software requires being able to visualize the shot without seeing it in a view finder. But tilt shifts have real limits, you shift them much and they get soft. ALso my shot is about 80 horizontal FOV, Canon's shortest TS lens is 24mm, which even for a FF camera would not give me the field of view I wanted. Scott |
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Tricky shot of an old church
Lorem Ipsum wrote: "Scott W" wrote in message oups.com... Focus is the only one you can not, As if that were not enough. But there are more things a view camera can do that digital postprocessing cannot. Other then focus? I would rather doubt it as after focus it is just a mater of moving pixels, and we know how to do that. But still I thought my focus was pretty good, where do you see it as being soft? Scott |
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Q.G. de Bakker wrote: Scott W wrote: For portrait work I can see where that could be an issue but not so much for landscape and architectural work. Quite the opposite. In portrait working, playing around with the plane of focus does not do much good. In the other two fields, however, it is used (well used) a lot. There is only so much DOF, so being able to repositioning it lets you do a lot of good. If I printed my image at 300 ppi it would be a print 33.5 x 25 inches. At that size the name Buick on the left car's license plate would be on the order of 1/40 of an inch high, and yet there is plenty of detail to read it. I don't believe my photo has a problem with sharpness. In fact there is plenty of sharpness all the way to the bottom of the photo. I am not saying that tilting is not useful at times, but often it is not needed and sometimes when it would be needed it is of limited use because you have a foreground object that you want in focus with background right behind that you also want to have in focus. As an example I really did want those cars there, but if they are going to be their I want them in focus, but there is background right behind the one. Scott |
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Q.G. de Bakker wrote:
Scott W wrote: We have a wonderful old church in town, but it is situated in a spot that make getting a good photo hard. Today I got one that I am pretty happy with. [...] What medium format or large format camera did you use? Well I used a large image area, isn't that what counts? Scott |
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Tricky shot of an old church
In rec.photo.equipment.large-format Scott W wrote:
Q.G. de Bakker wrote: Scott W wrote: We have a wonderful old church in town, but it is situated in a spot that make getting a good photo hard. Today I got one that I am pretty happy with. [...] What medium format or large format camera did you use? Well I used a large image area, isn't that what counts? Depends are you a troll? Nick -- --------------------------------------- "Digital the new ice fishing" --------------------------------------- |
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Tricky shot of an old church
"Scott W" wrote in message
oups.com... Q.G. de Bakker wrote: Scott W wrote: We have a wonderful old church in town, but it is situated in a spot that make getting a good photo hard. Today I got one that I am pretty happy with. [...] What medium format or large format camera did you use? Well I used a large image area, isn't that what counts? Sometimes. |
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