• Mike Sullivan@mastodon.well.com
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    6 days ago

    @mattblaze@federate.social Given the low camera position, I think some tower perspective would have been helpful, rather than the strict rectilinear view given by the camera shift. If the image is taken from a higher point, then the rectilinear view makes sense, but from ground level it’s contrafactual in terms of perceived view.

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      5 days ago

      @avogadro@well.com I think distortion from tilting the camera up is mostly a learned expectation from recent times. If you look at architectural photos from 50 or 75 years ago, when fancy cameras routinely supported movements, parallel vertical lines are almost always rendered correctly. It was only after the proliferation of small SLR and rangefinder cameras, which lack movements for correcting this, that tall buildings started tilting backwards.

      My photo practice is hipster-retro in that respect.

      • Chris is.@wandering.shop
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        5 days ago

        @mattblaze@federate.social I need to learn how to do that, and I’m afraid that if I do it’ll necessitate my getting a real camera instead of my phone. I love these vertical lines you get.