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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	The example was mixed, but it was the only before-after I could find on the web. The type of shots I was thinking of are cathedral photos from Europe, where there's just the one building, and the shot is upwards from in front of it (usually from pretty close, as there's no way to get a clean shot from a distance). I've seen those both natural and perspective-corrected, and I vastly prefer the perspective-corrected ones. Here's a perspective-corrected shot of the type I was thinking of: [url=http://c-weng.com/05photo.htm]http://c-weng.com/05photo.htm[/url] The from-the-front shot would show severe perspective distortion at that range and angle. I've seen such distorted cathedral shots in snapshots taken by tourists, and didn't like them at all. This guy apparently used Photoshop to correct it, but traditional film-based photographers would have used a tilt-shift lens. I've read several books that strongly recommend getting tilt/shift lenses if you're really into archetectural photography. I've even read of photographers forgetting to bring a tilt/shift, and taking a shot dead level from way far away, so the subject is only in the top half of the shot. They have to crop off nearly half of the bottom of the photo, but they avoid the up-angle perspective. Of course, tastes vary. [This message has been edited by Das (edited 03-13-2004).] Loading...
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