US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, 2021.
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@Trevorgoodchild Yes, though I was a ways back, this still required a moderate amount of vertical shift in order to get a reasonable composition with undistorted geometry. Shift is really useful for architecture!
@[email protected] wow I’m surprised that with all the distance you have you still required vertical shift to get everything just perfect. Since you had a lot of distance, would the photo without vertical shift even have been noticeably different to a layman as myself? Or is this just something you’d like to do to be perfect with your compositions?
@[email protected] You might not notice what's off, but you probably would notice that something is a bit wrong.
A viable alternative to shift movements at this distance is to shoot a bit wide and then crop.
@[email protected] so at this distance given you have enough range you could probably correct impost without the vertical shift and I probably would notice is what you’re saying. It really becomes necessary when you’re distances very very close like in your example where you explained everything.
@[email protected] I apologize if I’m getting all of this wrong I am fascinating by the different approaches and had no idea vertical shift of the sensor internally in a cameras even a thing to correct for this type of distortion. I always thought you used something like Photoshop to do it until you showed all the examples as to why that won’t always work.
@[email protected] No, nothing to apologize for! Cameras with built-in movements are pretty esoteric these days.
@[email protected] well I guess since I’m so used to seeing distorted images and geometry from camera phones or even DSLR’s to see your photos with vertical shifted perspective adjustments, and things like that probably has a different impact in my brain. I’m so used to seeing one type of image and I see your images and think wow these are extra good. I don’t know why but they just seem better than what I’m used to seeing. I know equipment doesn’t make the photographer, but it sure helps sometimes.