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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Maybe the buildings DO lean! It's NYC - they do pretty much whatever the heck they want there! :D Anyway - if you point a conventional camera up (which bramer had to do but which synax didn't), there will be a convergance. vertical lines which should be parallel will get closer together at the top as they head off to the vanishing point. Leveling the camera on a tripod isn't an option, because he wanted the buildings, not the sidewalk. A perspective control lens would have helped, but how many people have one of those? Applying some skew or perspective distiorion in Photoshop might have helped, but might have made a mess of things too. So the only real solution in this case was to invest hours of time and buckets of sweat and patch it together as best as possible. Impressive result - not only technically but aesthetically. There are some obscure cameras meant for doing this sort of seamless panorama thing (none digital that I know of) that actually rotate on the tripod head: the camera turns, the film advances past a slit, and the image is essentially "wiped" onto the film. This is VERY different from a fixed position "panorama" camera that just exposes a wider than normal aspect ratio. It's cool to see a print from one of these esoteric cameras because to get the perspective "right" you would have to wrap the print around your head in a circle! Opening it up flat is sometimes quite a surprise. But barring one of those babies or a shifting perspective control lens, about all you can do is take a lot of frames with significant overlap and then just settle in to a long Photoshop session! [This message has been edited by Steve (edited 12-03-2003).] Loading...
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