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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/28/2008
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Hi Harry!
And thanks a lot for the comment and the suggestions. Indeed, geometry is not "right" at the left. But for two reasons I avoid perspectivic corrections. The first reason is that any perspective correction with imaging software adds non-existing pixels at the areas of stretching and thus "corrects" the perspective at the cost of devastating the integrity of depiction. Those additional pixels are calculated through some "guessing" algorithms via interpolation. You see, when you take too adjucent pixels apart, the question is what to put between them, and that's way not trivial. Most of the time the software interpolates between the two adjucent pixels and guesses "what is most likely". But most of the time that "most likely" is simply a catastrophe. It doesn't represent the real thing and it looks awful, especially when stretching such complicated non-uniform patterns.
The other reason is that this kind of perspectivic distortion is exactly the same thing in the vertical direction as the enhancement of depth and leading lines in the horizontal direction. When we use a wide angle some given street also appears to get narrower into the depth. This happens also with no lense at all when we look into the depth and the street appears to get narrower though it has the same width everywhere.
I would of course correct vertical perspective on some images but only with a T/S lens. All the rest is just bad medicine.
Now on for the crop. That was good medicine. In general I like a very strong reference for the ground plane as a scene on which everything happens. Most of the time I try to include the whole depth from just in front of my feet up to "infinity". But here it is not really needed and so it should be cropped off. The scene remains intact through the presence of the buildings and the people and at the same time it gets denser. Thanks a lot for telling me!
Cheers!
Nick
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Kiarang Alaei
{K:49415} 6/28/2008
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You are most welcome Nick.
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Nick Karagiaouroglou
{K:127263} 6/28/2008
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Thanks a lot for the very encouraging comment, Kiarang!
I don't know if I allow any feelings to affect the whole process of photographing something. I think I rather try the opposite, namely to just present some scene as "neutral" as it can get, i.e. to avoid any kind of "tagging the scene with adjectives". Of course nobody can completely separate the own feelings from any kind of activity, and so also from photography. Nonetheless it appears better to me to keep away from the wish to say "look how nice" or "look how bad" through photography, since this implicitly contains the arrogance of "teaching" other people what is nice and what is bad. So, who am I to say if something is nice or bad at all, and why should my feelings imply anything when the spectator has the own feelings about that - this is what I think.
In addition, I find all that demonstrative exhibition of the own soul through photography very stupid. It reminds me of teenagers exposing their "poetry albums" and thinking that their emotional world must be the centre of the universe. I am 43, you know. ;-)
I just try to take the image as good as I can and nothing more.
Cheers!
Nick
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Wolf Zorrito
{K:78768} 6/27/2008
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Gruetzi mein Freund,
Will not mention the abed colors but you need to correct the geometrical/lens distortion at the left ! Crop th ef/g a bit.
Harry
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Kiarang Alaei
{K:49415} 6/27/2008
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you live with your camera.
your camera is your pen for writing your feelings!
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