Saturday, August 22, 2009

August 21, 2009 – High-rise condominium

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A couple of days ago I mentioned how the part of Buckhead I work in has done a good job of keeping green space amidst all of the high-rises. Here is a good photo showing that. At the base of this condominium is a little half-acre park, complete with bronze statues of kids playing (one of which you can see in the bottom left corner) and two water fountains.

I had to shoot with my lens set as wide as possible in order to get all of the building. There was quite of bit of building lean, which resulted in a tall, skinny pyramid look. Thank goodness for computers and Photoshop Elements camera distortion tool.

Another way to avoid the building lean is to get inside an adjacent building, go halfway up, and shoot your intended building through a window.

2 comments:

Sheree in GA said...

What does the camera distortion tool in photo shop accomplish?

Brian Humecky said...

Another way to accommodate the perspective distortion is to use a shift lens, or a large format camera that has the rise and fall movement.

Hasselblad Makes a shift lens for their cameras and they even make a digital now for a low price of $15k (yeah haha) How ever I do have a 4x5 camera if you wish to play with one sometime!!