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Another picture for the architecture course at school. It's "Realfagsbygget" (the building of natural science and mathematics) at the university of Trondheim, Norway.Taken with a large format Sinar camera. We were four people sharing a camera, spending 5 hours to take a total of 16 pictures (four each) of the outside and inside of this building. I guess no one can blame us for rushing
f/45 with a 1/4 shutter - or something like that...!
Shifted a lot upwards and towards the right, I love shifting
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Very nice Shot and some grat angels and also great white Balance !
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I may sound like a complete idiot right now, but what do you exactly mean by shifting?
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I didn't know what it was a few weeks back either
Shifting is a kind of perspective control, mainly used in architectural photography, as it can be used to correct converging lines. It can only be done with special tilt-shift lenses or bellows cameras (I used one of these [link] )
Think that you are standing in front of a tall building. If you have your camera levelled you won't see the top of the building, but if you tilt your camera upwards, you will get converging lines, which can be cool at times, but might not be what you want. But if you shift your lens upwards, it will be as if you tilted the camera (you see the top of the building), except that your camera is still level, and the vertical lines will still be parallel.
In this picture I think I was standing in front of the pillar, with the camera levelled. Which means that without the shifting, the pillar would have been in the middle of the picture, and I wouldn't have gotten any of the roof above me in the picture. If I had rotated the camera in stead of shifting sideways the perspective would have been different (the wall would have less converging lines), and if I had tilted the camera upwards in stead of shifting, the vertical lines would have been converged.
Hope you understand a bit of it
I didn't really understand it before I tried it out for myself though, I'm not really sure I totally get it know either, but I still love it
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wow thanks!I see what you mean.I've had that problem of converging lines many times and I don't like photographing architecture all that much,partly because I don't have the right equipment for that kind of photography,partly because I don't have the talent or the knowledge needed for the post-processing,so I don't even try to photograph architecture anymore.But I get what shifting is, you definitely did a good job in this photo with it.It wouldn't look anything like this if you haven't done the shifting.
Thanks again for the thorough explanation.And I really do like the photo, even though I'm not a big fan of architecture photography
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Wow. What a nice concrete building!
Nicely (and carefully) done composition.
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It is an amazing building, I guess that's why the first graders at our school are sent there every year during the architecture course. I guess every inch of the building has been photographed soon
And glad you like it
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Thank you
And sinar is definitely fun, but also a hassle at times
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well.
i'd also take a mamiya odr a pentax...
greetings from switzerland!
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